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It's time to flip the political script on immigration

02.09.2025 40

The New Daily

Jane Mcadam

Politicians have scapegoated immigration for decades. It’s time to flip the script

Anti-immigration rallies across Australia are the culmination of years of political scaremongering. But better immigration messaging could change the...

01.09.2025 5

The Conversation

Jane Mcadam

Secret refugee deal with Nauru just moves the problem out of sight

Australia has been sending asylum-seekers to the tiny Pacific nation since 2001. It doesn’t solve the issue.

01.09.2025 10

WA Today

Jane Mcadam

Secret refugee deal with Nauru just moves the problem out of sight

Australia has been sending asylum-seekers to the tiny Pacific nation since 2001. It doesn’t solve the issue.

01.09.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Jane Mcadam

Secret refugee deal with Nauru just moves the problem out of sight

Australia has been sending asylum-seekers to the tiny Pacific nation since 2001. It doesn’t solve the issue.

01.09.2025 10

The Age

Jane Mcadam

Secret refugee deal with Nauru just moves the problem out of sight

Australia has been sending asylum-seekers to the tiny Pacific nation since 2001. It doesn’t solve the issue.

01.09.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Jane Mcadam

1 in 3 Tuvaluans is bidding for a new ‘climate visa’ to Australia – here’s why everyone may ultimately end up applying

The rush for ‘climate visas’ to escape Tuvalu shows the extraordinary need for schemes that enable people to migrate in a warmer world.

27.06.2025 8

The Conversation

Jane Mcadam

Australian citizens in Iran and Israel are desperate to leave. Is the government required to help?

While the Australian government has frequently helped its citizens flee crises overseas, it is not legally obligated to do so. And repatriating...

19.06.2025 10

The Conversation

Jane Mcadam

Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu residents. An expert explains

The Australia–Tuvalu Falepili Union, as it is known, is the world’s first bilateral agreement to create a special visa like this in the context of...

10.04.2025 40

The Conversation

Jane Mcadam

Climate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims?

We don’t need to reinvent the wheel and can dispense with unhelpful terms like ‘climate refugee’. Existing laws, applied correctly, can protect...

10.02.2025 10

The Conversation

Jane Mcadam

The pressing case for a new emergency visa to help people fleeing Gaza and other conflicts

Recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza have displaced large numbers of people. In each case, Australia’s humanitarian response...

23.09.2024 30

The Conversation

Jane Mcadam

Dutton, Gaza and why we need an emergency protection framework

Peter Dutton’s politicised dog-whistling about visas for people fleeing the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza ignores the devastation and extreme...

22.08.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Jane Mcadam