Essays & reportage
26 March 2021
Is the federal government looking for too much unity in a country nourished by difference?
Essays & reportage
25 March 2020
How the communists saved Josh Frydenberg
International
26 February 2019
The controversy over Shamima Begum’s bid to return to Britain from Syria has parallels in Australia
National affairs
19 February 2019
The PM says Hakeem al-Araibi will be a citizen very soon, but a new audit office report reveals why most refugees are waiting so long for citizenship
Essays & reportage
9 August 2018
A visit to the site of Wyndham’s Native Hospital prompts the question: what does it mean to live outside the protection of the state?
Essays & reportage
31 July 2018
A social scientist goes in search of an elusive Australian passport
National affairs
16 June 2017
The government’s toughening of citizenship rules would worsen the problems it seeks to tackle
National affairs
16 June 2017
New data reveals a growing group of long-term temporary migrants
National affairs
22 February 2016
New Zealanders living in Australia have been given a new way of becoming citizens. But as Peter Mares reports, only some of them stand to benefit
National affairs
5 March 2013
Like Australia, Britain decided to make it harder for new arrivals to become citizens. Kerry Ryan looks at the mixed results
Essays & reportage
16 April 2012
The Howard government made it harder for some nationalities to become citizens, and Labor has made it worse, writes Kerry Ryan
18 February 2011
In London, Ian Henderson finds that Britain’s migration test reveals more about its authors than they would ever have anticipated