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Climate of stagnation
AT COP25 IN Madrid – the twenty-fifth United Nations climate summit, held in December 2019 – I watched as the vice...
Brexit, Australian-style
IT WAS ALWAYS going to be ‘Australian-style’. When Boris Johnson unveiled his government’s new points-based immigration system in early...
The kindness of strangers
FOR ALL HER long life, Baba Schwartz baked two yeast cakes every Friday: one laced with chocolate and nuts,...
Siege mentality
I FIRST CAME to Hungary thirty years ago as a young Australian diplomat, witnessing its democratic transition and conversion...
Squats, squares and city plans
WALKING ALONG BERLIN’S River Spree one hot summer’s day in 2019, I happened upon a little garden. It was fenced,...
Come together
AS LIBRARY-BASED complexes have evolved in recent decades to foster important community making, interculturalism and egalitarian learning, Australia and...
Wheat, wages and weapons
TWELVE KILOMETRES WEST of Melbourne’s central business district lies Sunshine, a growing urban centre that once housed Australia’s largest...
Memory and migration
AS PART OF its politics of memory, the European Union has expended considerable effort creating a transnational and unifying...
Definition: wog (n); a thing
A wog is a word for a thing a polliwog, a golliwog a black-face doll – a sailor who has not crossed the...
A seat at the table
YANIS WATCHES ME intently as I talk – I am grateful. An attentive audience can never be anticipated in Athens,...
Underwog
Journalist, author and political commentator George Megalogenis has made a unique contribution to Australian conversations about migration, politics and...
The signal line
GEO AND WES didn’t talk on the fifteen-minute drive from the airport, although that in itself wasn’t unusual. When...
