With the release of A New Approach, Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees and Asylum Seekersand the full High Court hearing of a legal challenge to the Gillard government’s Malaysia Solution, 30 well known Australians, including… more
Refugee policy
Big Names Chase Leadership on Asylum Seeker Debate | The Power Index
Prominent business leaders have weighed into the asylum seeker debate for the first time by calling for an end to mandatory detention and greater political leadership on the issue. Australian Industry Group chief Heather Ridout, NAB chairman Michael Chaney and… more
John Menadue | Asylum seeker facts lost in hysteria
Does our island mentality and concern about securing our physical border help explain our obsession with “boat people”? John Menadue explores the causes of Australia’s obsession with asylum seekers and… more
Kerry Murphy | Improving the Refugee Debate
During the week of the tenth anniversary of the Tampa, and following the release of A New Approach, Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Kerry Murphy comments on… more
ABC The Drum | ‘Breaking the stalemate on refugees and asylum seekers’
Professor Frank Brennan writes for ABC’s The Drum online reflecting on what he thinks about the vexed state of policy debate on refugees and asylum seekers. We Australians are still… more
Sky News | ‘Report suggests new approach to refugees’
Sky News Online reports on the findings in A New Approach, our suggested policies on refugees & asylum seekers: The report – A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees… more
AAP | ‘Report seeks new approach to refugees’
AAP News journalist Belinda Merhab covered CPD’s report on refugees and asylum seekers, featuring prominent Australian Tuong Quang Luu’s story of fleeing Vietnam. “It was an extremely hazardous and horrible… more
Malcom Fraser | ‘End the appeal to meanness’
Malcom Fraser’s opinion piece in The Age today, ‘End the appeal to meanness’ echoes the sentiments of our report, A New Approach: Breaking the stalemate on Refugees & Asylum Seekers.… more
The Age | ‘Plea for asylum policy rethink’
A New Approach makes the front page of The Age, in a story by Michael Gordon: “Prominent business and union leaders have endorsed a new strategy on asylum seekers that… more