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  • EDUCATION

    Best of 2009: Stairway to international student security

    • Ben Coleridge
    • 05 January 2010
    5 Comments

    After midnight, a group of international students, on a break from their night jobs as waiters, gather in a concrete stairwell and share their stories. Victorian premier John Brumby could learn a thing or two in that shabby stairwell. September 2009

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  • EDUCATION

    Stairway to international student security

    • Ben Coleridge
    • 30 September 2009
    7 Comments

    After midnight, a group of international students, on a break from their night jobs as waiters, gather in a concrete stairwell and share their stories. Victorian premier John Brumby could learn a thing or two in that shabby stairwell.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Purging Howard's national insecurity

    • Tony Kevin
    • 04 April 2008
    1 Comment

    The most profound shock to Australian foreign policy was not 9/11 but our change of government in 1996. Under Rudd Labor, Australia's international agenda is once again becoming less about national security and more about being a good international citizen.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Bill Calcutt

    • Bill Calcutt
    • 18 October 2007

    Bill Calcutt worked in a range of intelligence roles in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the National Crime Authority for more than 20 years. He now works in regional development and retains a strong interest in governance and public accountability.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Michael Danby

    • Michael Danby
    • 17 May 2007

    Michael Danby has been Labor Member for Melbourne Ports since 1998. Before his election he was a journalist and editor, ministerial advisor and trade union industrial officer. In Parliament, his main areas of interest have been foreign affairs and national security, human rights, immigration, education, and child care.

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  • RELIGION

    Australia’s judicial isolation

    • Frank Brennan
    • 29 April 2006

    Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Seeking justice for Jack

    • Katherine Wilson
    • 23 April 2006

    Jack Thomas is one of the first Australians charged under the Howard Government’s new anti-terror laws, but is he really a threat to national security or merely a sacrifical lamb?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Trust me

    • Jack Waterford
    • 21 April 2006

    John Howard has a new pitch to the public on nearly everything, but particularly on national security and industrial relations: Trust me.  

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