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In this Policy Brief, Fergus Hanson looks at the Australian government's current approach to suspected war criminals living here.
Confronting reality: responding to war criminals living in Australia
About the author
Fergus Hanson
Fergus Hanson was the Program Director for Polling at the Lowy Institute and produced the Institute’s flagship Lowy Institute Poll since 2008.
It finds Australia has inadvertently become a safe haven for suspected war criminals and needs to do more to meet its international obligations to end impunity for the world's worst criminal offenders. It suggests a number of modest reforms the Rudd government could implement to meet its election commitment that suspected war criminals be brought to justice.
Download the Policy Brief here.