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Expanding empathy: Go Back to Where You Came From

The ‘social experiment’ of a refugee journey in reverse has challenged both participants and audiences. Suzannah Marshall Macbeth says that SBS’s bold piece of television highlights the importance of empathy in a complex debate.

Does the Australian Party really matter?

Some have claimed that Bob Katter’s new political party is a joke soon to be forgotten about. But as Matthew Dixon explains, it could end up having a bigger effect on Australian politics than we think.

Rhetoric on cue

The federal government’s new asylum seeker policy has reignited the debate from last year’s federal election. But as Erdem Koc explains, there’s one term in this debate which is both misleading and misinformed.

A boatload of hope

Refugees have fled life-threatening situations in hopes of being welcomed by fairer and freer countries like Australia. But is Australia really as fair as it likes to think? Beau Donelly talks to refugees, activists and politicians and asks the question, are ‘illegal’ asylum seekers really illegal at all?