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  • 3 Mar 2026
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Migration
    • Pacific Islands

    Want higher productivity? Replace backpackers with Pacific workers

    Peter Mares
    Australia needs to adapt its Pacific labour scheme to attract more workers and reward them more fairly.
  • 27 Feb 2026
    • Australia
    • Europe
    • Migration
    • United States

    Immigration: Trump’s puzzling Australia exemption

    Sam Roggeveen
    Why is Australia let off the hook when it presents a bigger target than Europe?
  • 20 Jan 2026
    • Australia
    • Poverty
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Climate change
    • Human rights
    • Migration
    • Sex and Gender
    • United States

    A rearview mirror on America’s year of foreign aid cuts

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    The ripple effects of global USAID cuts will be generational – and everyone will lose.
  • 27 Nov 2025
    • Japan
    • Migration

    Don’t believe everything you read in the media about Japan’s strong anti-immigrant sentiment

    Peter Chai
    Social pressure pushes people to sound tougher on immigrants than they feel.
  • 23 Oct 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • Migration
    • Technology
    • United States

    US foreign worker visas: Where there’s crisis, there’s opportunity

    Aarti Betigeri
    Highly skilled Indian workers will be looking elsewhere after Trump’s visa decision. This could be Australia’s moment.
  • 16 Oct 2025
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • Migration

    Europe’s strangest border: Crossing the Saatse Boot, a slice of Russia in Estonia

    Monique Taylor
    When a simple daily drive becomes an exercise in navigating geopolitical rivalry.
  • 10 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Trade
    • Climate change
    • Migration

    The Liberal Party’s coming foreign policy split

    Hugh Piper
    Immigration, climate, trade and China are fracturing the conservative side of politics into rival camps with competing worldviews.
  • 3 Oct 2025
    • Australia
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Migration

    When democracies override their own courts: Australia’s dangerous precedent

    Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres
    Parliamentary overrides in migration law offer authoritarian regimes a playbook for eroding judicial independence.
  • 4 Sep 2025
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Australia wastes a soft power advantage with skilled migrants

    Sohail Akhtar
    A failure to quickly recognise migrant skills damages relationships in the Indo-Pacific region Australia seeks to court.
  • 31 Jul 2025
    • Australia
    • Migration
    • The Americas

    Brazil’s new visa rule sends a diplomatic message to Australia

    Filipe Porto
    What seems like bureaucracy may reflect deeper tensions over reciprocity, symmetry, and emerging power dynamics.
  • 21 Jul 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • AUKUS
    • Energy
    • Poverty
    • Trade
    • Climate change
    • Migration
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Sustainability
    • United States

    Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill: A domestic deal with Indo-Pacific consequences

    Shameek Godara
    America’s new act reinforces the reality that internal choices are rarely contained within borders.
  • 9 Jul 2025
    • Australia
    • Migration
    • Pacific Islands

    Visa free Pacific-Australia travel is the next logical step in the relationship

    Edward Cavanough
    And is even more important as Trump dials down American engagement in the region.
  • 30 Jun 2025
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Long-distance nationalism tests Australia’s multicultural harmony

    Kanchan Panday
    Reaction to the Pahalgam attack from afar showed the social media stress faced by diaspora communities.
  • 6 Jun 2025
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Australia’s rental crisis at home also cost its reputation abroad

    Sohail Akhtar
    Migrants drawn by Australia’s inclusive image encounter discriminatory rental practices that damage the nation’s soft power.
  • 26 May 2025
    • Debt
    • Trade
    • Global Issues
    • Migration
    • United States

    The diminishing of US exceptionalism

    Jenny Gordon
    Visa bans, research cuts, and isolationist policies risk America’s global leadership and leave a void for China to fill.
  • 14 Mar 2025
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Migration

    Betting the house on Australia’s soft diplomacy

    Grant Wyeth
    A housing crisis might seem like a domestic problem, but there are significant foreign policy wins on offer.
  • 13 Feb 2025
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Migration
    • Multiculturalism

    Population decline: Future shock no more

    Richard Yetsenga
    Planning for the worst is more advisable than hoping for the best.
  • 19 Dec 2024
    • India
    • Migration

    Indians are streets ahead of their government in foreign policy

    Ved Shinde
    In terms of partners, Delhi is multi-aligned, but where would most Indians prefer to migrate?
  • 26 Nov 2024
    • Australia
    • Migration

    How Australia risks losing global talent

    Intifar Chowdhury
    High costs and closed doors means Australia could lose its value as a destination of choice.
  • 14 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Amid a global aged care labour shortage, how will Australia address the challenge?

    Sophia Kagan
    International experience holds compelling lessons and points to important risks.
  • 19 Sep 2024
    • Australia
    • Australian immigration
    • Migration

    International students: Australia has a good problem that may not last

    Frank Yuan
    Australia’s economic prospects and soft power may become the collateral damage of a narrow domestic debate.
  • 28 Aug 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Migration

    Maid in Australia: When international relations and industrial law collide

    Daniel Flitton
    Two recent court cases have raised uncomfortable questions about diplomatic immunity.
  • 19 Aug 2024
    • Australia
    • Migration
    • Multiculturalism

    Labor squanders a multicultural mandate

    Emily Foley
    An emphasis on border protection can overshadow the social and economic benefits of migration.
  • 1 Aug 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Migration

    Nationalism vs globalism: Making the case for Indonesian dual citizenship

    Alldo Fellix Januardy , Agata Jacqueline Paramesvari
    A lack of rights for Indonesians living and working abroad means they cannot truly be citizens of the world.
  • 25 Jul 2024
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Human rights
    • Migration

    Child marriage in Southeast Asia: When a harmful practice becomes an international crime

    Leisha Lister , Indira Rosenthal
    ASEAN can lead the way in tackling a practice that regularly results in the trafficking of persons.
  • 24 Jun 2024
    • Australia
    • Migration
    • Public Opinion

    Australians get the benefits of migration, even the doubters

    Emily Foley
    The latest Lowy Institute Poll captures the nuanced attitude of the public to a hotly contested political theme.
  • 17 Apr 2024
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Human rights
    • Migration
    • Transnational Challenges

    Invisible victims: How counter-trafficking efforts leave people with disability behind

    Elisabeth Jackson
    It is often those who should be responsible for protecting people with disabilities who exploit them.
  • 18 Mar 2024
    • India
    • India's Economy
    • United Kingdom
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • Migration

    Reverse colonialism? India and Britain’s free trade agreements

    Aarti Betigeri
    The failure of FTA talks between New Delhi and London rings with an unmistakable tone of irony.
  • 13 Mar 2024
    • Bangladesh
    • Myanmar
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Human rights
    • Migration

    A ring-fence around the Rohingya can’t last – Australia’s policy needs to change

    Arunn Jegan
    Seven years on, a temporary aid agenda is only extenuating the problem.
  • 7 Mar 2024
    • India
    • Migration
    • Sustainability

    Securing India’s cities

    Abhijnan Rej
    The country’s future as an Indo-Pacific power depends on how resilient its cities are in the face of current and emerging threats.
  • 1 Mar 2024
    • India
    • Migration

    An Indian advantage abroad

    Ved Shinde
    Delhi is reinvigorating its outreach to overseas Indians - even as attracting talent from India is becoming an urgent necessity.
  • 15 Feb 2024
    • Nepal
    • Human rights
    • Migration

    Dying to work abroad: Why Nepalese migrants are fighting other people’s wars

    Harris Amjad
    In Russia and beyond, those desperate for work are sacrificing their lives and livelihoods.
  • 31 Jan 2024
    • Migration
    • Pacific Islands
    • Vanuatu

    Golden passports and visas: Two sides of the coin

    Henrietta McNeill , Grant Walton
    These schemes get plenty of bad press, but for a country like Vanuatu, suddenly scrapping them could be worse.
  • 30 Jan 2024
    • Migration
    • Pacific Islands

    Visa-free travel: A chance to reignite the Pacific voyage

    Damian Kelly
    Barriers to the movement of people split up the regional family.  
  • 25 Jan 2024
    • Migration
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    Practical steps to alleviate Papua New Guinea’s unemployment crisis

    Natasha Turia
    A good start is workable systems to ensure paperwork can be completed in a timely fashion.
  • 11 Jan 2024
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Migration
    • United Nations

    By default not design: the end of the asylum consensus

    Khalid Koser
    Ever since Australia adopted the “Pacific Solution”, norm busting has become the norm.
  • 21 Dec 2023
    • Bangladesh
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Australia must work with Bangladesh to stop the Rohingya boats

    David Brewster
    Extra aid is welcome. The next task is to build Bangladesh’s capabilities.
  • 15 Nov 2023
    • Human rights
    • Migration
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges

    Human trafficking: Harnessing technology to help those most vulnerable

    Cate Sumner
    Delivering legal services to victims often means overcoming barriers in language, information and distance.
  • 10 Nov 2023
    • Australia
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Migration

    Where did the Afghan refugees go – and where next?

    Sadiq Amini
    While the world is still figuring out the politics, the people are paying the price.
  • 22 Aug 2023
    • Bangladesh
    • Myanmar
    • Migration
    • United Nations

    Remember the Rohingya, for disease hasn’t forgotten them

    Arunn Jegan
    After six years, supposedly temporary camps now resemble slums. How long can the world turn away?
  • 9 Aug 2023
    • Philippines
    • Migration

    Overseas Filipino workers toil for the Marcos government’s bottom line

    Michael Beltran
    The Philippines relies on remittances to prop up the local economy. But the reports of abuses cannot be ignored.
  • 4 May 2023
    • Global Issues
    • Migration
    • Africa

    Five potential global consequences of Sudan’s escalating conflict

    Aly Verjee
    Even distant Australia could feel knock-on effects of a refugee crisis, gold smuggling and disruption to wheat crops.
  • 9 Feb 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Migration
    • Transnational Challenges

    Australia and Indonesia can lead a response to refugee crisis in the region

    Andrew Hudson
    Shared information will help with rescue efforts and to pursue the leaders in people smuggling outfits.
  • 13 Jan 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Australian immigration
    • Migration

    Undue suspicion of Chinese Australian scientists slows progress

    Yun Jiang
    Clear guidance is needed how national security is assessed in research and what are the boundaries of collaboration.
  • 7 Dec 2022
    • Myanmar
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Migration

    Australia could lead the way on Rohingya crisis

    Arunn Jegan
    Canberra is well placed to broker a new deal for resettling the region’s most vulnerable refugees.
  • 2 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Australia wants to attract the world’s best? Make it easier to migrate

    Aarti Betigeri
    An overdue review can start fixing national skills shortages by smoothing the way for workers and families to settle.
  • 18 Nov 2022
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Migration
    • Pacific Islands
    • Tonga
    • Vanuatu

    Strengthening disaster resilience in the Pacific

    Sam Quinn
    The aftermath of Tonga’s massive volcanic eruption holds valuable lessons as climate change risks also grow.
  • 15 Nov 2022
    • Malaysia
    • Myanmar
    • Human rights
    • Migration
    • United Nations

    Refugees may become victims of Malaysia’s electoral politics

    Max Walden
    The plight of Myanmar Rohingyas exposes Southeast Asia’s disjointed policies and fragile human rights protections.
  • 3 Nov 2022
    • Australia
    • Islamic State
    • Global Issues
    • Migration

    Risks and responses repatriating foreign terrorist fighters and families

    Khalid Koser , Lilla Schumicky-Logan
    Australia is bringing home families that lived under Islamic State, and experience overseas offers valuable lessons.
  • 2 Nov 2022
    • United Kingdom
    • Migration

    Can the UK stop the boats?

    Khalid Koser
    Attempting to mimic the Australian model ignores the striking differences that confront post-Brexit Britain.
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