In the media
Kaldor Centre experts frequently appear in national and international media, providing a voice of reason, evidence and principle in the public debate.
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- Julie Macken, 'The shadow of the Tampa', Pearls and Irritations, 21 November 2025
- Daniel Ghezelbash, 'The Refugee Convention is under threat, but it is not the problem', Pearls and Irritations, 19 November 2025
- 'Kaldor Centre’s Jane McAdam AO appointed to new NSW Settlement Advisory Council', UNSW Newsroom, 17 November 2025
- Daniel Ghezelbash and Jane McAdam, 'As Australia welcomes its millionth refugee, its hardline border policies endure. We can lead by example again', The Conversation, 11 November 2025
- Sofia Jayne, 'First NZYQ deportee arrives in Nauru', Post, 29 October 2025
- Matthew Giannelis, 'AI Justice Tool Launches In Victoria, Helping People Write And Lodge Complaints', Tech Business News, 29 October 2025
- Ashleigh Steele, 'Advancing refugee protection in a divided world: UNSW hosts key conference', UNSW Newsroom, 24 October 2025
- Jack Gramenz, 'Australia's refugee policies among world's harshest', AAP/Perth Now, 23 October 2025
- Gina Rushton, 'Lawyers are already using AI. Will judges be next?', ABC's Long Read, 5 October 2025
- William Summers, 'At least 29 Americans have sought asylum in Australia since second Trump presidency began', The Guardian, 2 October 2025
- Shannon Bisch, 'Can Israel use self-defence to justify its strike on Qatar under the law?', Law Society Journal, 11 September 2025
- Anna Talbot, 'The NZYQ Nauru deportation deal', The Saturday Paper, 6 September 2025
- Angelica Waite, 'Anti-immigration rallies ignore Australia's economic dependence on migration' (audio and text), SBS News
- Angelica Waite, Alexandra Koster, 'The paradox at the heart of calls to end 'mass migration' in Australia', SBS News, 5 September 2025
- Paul Gregoire, 'Why Did NSW Authorities Simply Wave the Anti-immigration March Through?', Sydney Criminal Lawyers, 4 September 2025
- Mary Anne Kenny and Lisa van Toor, 'By sending non-visa holders to Nauru, Australia is shifting its responsibilities', The Conversation, 1 September 2025
- Jane McAdam, 'Politicians have scapegoated immigration for decades. It’s time to flip the script', The Conversation, 1 September 2025
- Jane McAdam, 'Secret refugee deal with Nauru just moves the problem out of sight', The Age (and Nine newspapers), 1 September 2025
- Louise Templeton, 'UNSW wins top teaching and learning prize at AFR Higher Education Awards', UNSW Newsroom, 20 August 2025
- Stephen Matchett, 'Appointments & Achievements', Future Campus, 19 August 2025
- Jane McAdam, interviewed by David Marr, ‘Most of Tuvalu applied for a new Australian visa; why?’ (audio), ABC Late Night Live, 18 August 2025
- Ashligh Steele, 'Double win for UNSW at Australian Law Awards', UNSW Newsroom, 18 August 2025
- Nandini Dhir, 'Gazan university students restart their lives in Australia with support to study in Western Sydney', ABC News, 16 August 2025
- Alexandra Koster, 'These protests want to 'take our country back'. But the real issues run much deeper', SBS News, 14 August 2025
- Thomas Mulder, Regina Jefferies and Jane McAdam, ‘Is There a Duty to Repatriate in International Law?’, EJIL:Talk!, 2 July 2025
- Eduardo Jordan, ‘Tuvaluan ‘climate’ visa in full swing’ (audio), The Wire, 1 July 2025
- Damien Carrick, ‘The Law Report: Could a landmark US Supreme Court ruling expand Trump's powers?’ (audio), ABC Radio National, 1 July 2025
- Tee Mitchell, ‘Why over a third of this nation's citizens want to migrate to Australia’, SBS News, 1 July 2025
- 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 Conversation, 27 June 2025
- James Woodford, ‘Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for climate migration visa’, New Scientist, 27 June 2025
- Jane McAdam, Regina Jefferies, Thomas Mulder, ‘Australian citizens in Iran and Israel are desperate to leave. Is the government required to help?’, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
- Madeleine Wedesweiler, ‘Inside the private operations to evacuate Australians from the Middle East’, SBS News, 18 June 2025
- Emma Brancatisano, Kenneth Macleod, Jono Delbridge, ‘Refugees, foreign students and 'boat people': What it's really like to migrate to Australia’, SBS News, 11 June 2025
- Daniel Ghezelbash, Keyvan Dorostkar, Mia Bridle, ‘5 ways to tackle Australia’s backlog of asylum cases’, The Conversation, 24 April 2025
- Kate Newton, ‘Hear me out: What if AI could help solve your legal problems?’, UNSW Newsroom, 16 April 2025
- ‘UNSW's AI tool 'Hear Me Out' aims to simplify legal complaints’, Mi3, 16 April 2025
- ‘New visa details emerge about Falepili Union’, ABC News ‘Pacific Beat’, 16 April 2025
- Andrew Mathieson, ‘Unique visa sees Tuvalu immigrants cleared to become permanent Australian residents’, National Indigenous Times, 14 April 2025
- Jane McAdam, ‘Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu residents. An expert explains’, The Conversation, 10 April 2025
- Roberta Kwan, ‘Could Shakespeare’s most political play help us recover a sense of kindness in our politics?’, ABC News, 7 April 2025
- Karl Hoerr, ‘New app gives lawyers and consumers tools to kick off complaints’, LSJ Online, 1 April 2025
- Jacqueline So, ‘AI powers new complaint platform’, Australasian Lawyer, 24 March 2025
- Sally Baker, Louise Olliff, ‘Regional Australia needs more workers to rebuild after disasters like Alfred. Skilled refugees could help’, 11 March 2025
- Dave Marchese, ‘Forced to leave your home because of climate change’ (audio), Triple J Hack program, 4 March 2025
Geoff Gilbert and Tamara Wood, ‘International Protection for People Displaced Across Borders in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Practical Toolkit’, EJIL Talk! (blog), 4 March 2025
Daniel Ghezelbash and Saul Wodak, ‘Misinformation on refugees and migrants is rife during elections. We found 6 ways it spreads – and how to stop it’, The Conversation, 4 March 2025
Tamara Wood, ‘Turning Africa’s legal advantages into benefits for climate refugees’, Institute for Security Studies (blog), 24 February 2025
Cat Woods, ‘Birthright Citizenship: when “home” becomes a game of border politics’, Law Society Journal, 21 February 2025
Olivia Caisley, ‘Nauru to resettle NZYQ non-citizens’ (audio), ABC AM program, 17 Feb 2025
Mary Anne Kenny and Lisa van Toor, ‘Australia is deporting 3 non-citizens from the ‘NZYQ’ group to Nauru. What could it do instead?’, 14 February 2025
Jane McAdam, ‘Climate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims?’, The Conversation, 11 February 2025
Niv Sadrolodabaee, Carl Dixon, ‘Turned away by Australia and rejected by Trump, these refugees have been living in limbo for 12 years’, SBS, 6 February 2025
Jenna Price, ‘If this terrorised American feels like fleeing, I think Australia should welcome him’, The Canberra Times, 3 February 2025
Shamim Malekmian, ‘Some lawyers who judge asylum appeals have gone on strike’, Dublin Inquirer, 22 January 2025
Jane McAdam, ‘LA fires starkly show how impacts of climate change discriminate’, Women’s Agenda, 12 January 2025
Ben Doherty, ‘‘I felt less human, not human at all’: Australia faces moral crossroads over Nauru’, 11 January 2025
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Stuart Braun, ‘Can Syria's devastated cultural heritage be rebuilt?’, DW, 19 December 2024
- Jane McAdam, ‘Confiscating phones, separating families: The three brutal immigration bills being rushed through parliament’, Women’s Agenda, 28 November 2024
- Anna Talbot, ‘ASF17 v Commonwealth and the illusion of choice’, AusPubLaw (blog), 28 November 2024
- Farid Farid, ‘Deportation, travel ban and dogs in detention laws pass’, The New Daily, 28 November 2024
- Sherine Al Shallah interview with Jennie Shin, ‘Israel, Hezbollah at war; Lebanon caught in crossfire: Attacks could ‘destroy centuries of heritage’’ (video), France24, 22 November 2024
- Daniel Ghezelbash interview with Andy Park, ‘Warnings migration bill will give the Government unprecedented powers’ (audio), ABC RN Drive, 20 November 2024
- Daniel Ghezelbash and Anna Talbot, ‘Another rushed migration bill would give the government sweeping powers to deport potentially thousands of people’, The Conversation, 18 November 2024
- Gareth Hutchens, ‘Is Australia's migration system ready for rising numbers of climate refugees?’, ABC News, 17 November 2024
Michael Riley, ‘How to end the backlog of asylum cases? Take them out of the courts’, Bloomberg, 2 November 2024
Daniel Ghezelbash and Constantin Hruschka, ‘Fair and Fast Asylum Processing: Lessons from Switzerland’, Just Security, 24 October 2024
- Thomas Mulder, ‘Evacuations In Armed Conflict: A Fine Line Between A Life-Saving Measure And Forced Displacement’, EJIL: Talk!, 9 October 2024
- Regina Jefferies interview, ‘New Emergency Visa Proposal calls for improvement of Australia's refugee and humanitarian visa scheme’ (audio), The Wire, 4 October 2024
- Farid Farid, ‘‘Living in limbo’: calls grow to speed up asylum claims’, The Canberra Times/AAP, 2 October 2024
- Ewa Staszewska, ‘Inside Australia's evacuation mission: Penny Wong's warning as 500 new seats secured’, SBS News, 2 October 2024
- Jane McAdam, ‘A new emergency visa for Australia?’, DevPolicy, 2 October 2024
- Rafqa Touma and Ben Doherty, ‘It grows this anger within people': how Australia treats those fleeing humanitarian disaster depends on where they came from – and when’, The Guardian, 25 September 2024
- Elfy Scott, ‘Meet the young people who could outlive their own country’, SBS News, 14 September 2024
- Farid Farid, ‘Expert calls to streamline visas in times of conflict’, AAP Newswire, 11 September 2024
- Daniel Ghezelbash interview, ‘Asylum seeker suicide sparks outrage’ (audio), The Wire, 11 September 2024
- Jane McAdam and Regina Jefferies, ‘Dutton, Gaza and why we need an emergency protection framework’, Pearls and Irritations, 23 August 2024
- Farid Farid, ‘Making universities more equitable for refugee women’, The Canberra Times, 20 August 2024
- John Ross, ‘Campus support services ‘too homogeneous’ for refugee students’, Times Higher Education, 8 August 2024
- Ewa Staszewska, ‘The 'nightmare' that has been Eyad's family's reality for generations’, SBS News, 21 July 2024
- Sherine Al Shallah, ‘Cultural heritage is often overlooked when assessing refugee claims. Here's why this is a mistake’, The Conversation, 4 July 2024
- Sherine Al Shallah, ‘Researcher says cultural heritage integration vital in refugee assessment’ (audio), 2ser The Wire, 4 July 2024
- Madeline Gleeson and Natasha Yacoub, ‘‘Offshore processing’ in Australia’, Externalizing Asylum (blog), 28 June 2024
- Sally Baker, Claire Higgins, Jemma Bailey, ‘Australia requires a collective approach to help resettle refugees’, The Canberra Times, 22 June 2024
- Fran Kelly, ‘The Pick: with Richard Scolyer and Jane McAdam’, RN Saturday Extra, 22 June 2024
- Farid Farid, ‘Regions can benefit from untapped skilled refugee pool’, The Canberra Times, 20 June 2024
- Claire Higgins interview with Zachary Probert, ‘Research project set to boost refugees working in regions’ (audio), 2ser The Wire, 20 June 2024
- Chris Roe, ‘Research project looks at connecting skilled refugees with understaffed employers in regional Australia’, Region Riverina, 20 June 2024
- Jane McAdam, ‘Expanding refugee protection for a changing climate’, The Mandarin, 19 June 2023
- Jeremy Eager, ‘World first regional refugee employment study launched in Wagga’, The Daily Advertiser, 19 June 2024
- Crystal-Rose Jones, ‘Australia's Transition to Net Zero Spurs Study on Refugee Employment’, The Epoch Times, 18 June 2024
- RMIT ABC Fact Check, ‘Greens senator David Shoebridge says the government is proposing a law that would allow Trump-style travel bans. Is that correct?’, ABC News, 6 June 2024
- Natasha Mitchell, ‘Uprooted and unprotected — 110 million displaced lives’, ABC Radio National Big Ideas, 5 June 2024
- Cat Woods, 'Harnessing technology to improve access to justice', Law Society Journal, 16 May 2024
- Wendy Yang, 'High Court decision in ASF17: What's next?', Law Society Journal, 16 May 2024
- Ben Doherty and Rebecca Kuku, 'Rwandans arrive in Australia after perilous journey to claim asylum', The Guardian, 10 May 2024
- Ariel Bogle, 'Flawed immigration detention risk assessment tool can't be upgraded as ABF data 'riddled with errors'', The Guardian, 10 May 2024
- Daniel Ghezelbash, 'The government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its deportation bill. Given the findings, it's easy to see why', The Conversation, 8 May 2024
- Wendy Yang, 'Migration Bill creates 'criminal' offence for non-citizens', Law Society Journal, 29 April 2024
- Madeline Gleeson, 'Offshore Processing Offers False Hope for United Kingdom', Australian Institute of International Affairs, 22 April 2024
- Anna Scotland, 'Zahra's mission to help refugee community is personal', Newsworthy, 17 April 2024
- Anna Scotland, 'New data reveals judicial bias in refugee cases', Newsworthy, 16 April 2024
- Niv Sadrolodabaee, Carl Dixon, 'Tania thought she was safe to protest in Australia, but now she fears deportation', SBS News, 15 April 2024
- Ayesha Tandon, 'In-depth Q&A: How does climate change drive human migration?', Carbon Brief, 11 April 2024
- Wendy Yang, 'Risky business of using algorithms in immigration detention', Law Soceity Journal, 10 April 2024
- Simogne Highfield, 'Volunteer hiker, musician and refugee lawyer: Tristan Harley', Inside UNSW, 9 April 2024
- Guy S Goodwin-Gill, ‘‘The risk must be taken into account now’: Analysis’’ Al Jazeera (video), 5 April 2024
- Kimberley Caines, 'Constitutional law expert George Williams thinks Government will win High Court case over deportation refusal', The Nightly, 4 April 2024
- Emma Brancatisano, Sara Tomevska, ‘'An awful nightmare': Amid a contentious immigration plan, Betia fears for her family’, SBS News, 29 March 2024
- Ben Doherty, ‘Labor’s deportation bill could be used to blacklist entire countries’ citizens from obtaining visas to Australia’, The Guardian, 28 March 2024
- Jane McAdam, Daniel Ghezelbash, Madeline Gleeson, Tristan Harley, ‘The consequences of the government’s new migration legislation could be dire – for individuals and for Australia’, The Conversation, 27 March 2024
- Stephanie Smail, ‘Proposed immigration detention laws "most draconian in decades"’, ABC The World Today, 27 March 2024
- Paul Karp, ‘Rushed bill forcing hundreds of non-citizens to facilitate own deportation passes lower house’, The Guardian, 26 March 2024
- Helen Haines MP, ‘Calling out Labor’s rushed immigration laws’, helenhaines.org, 26 March 2024
- Ellie Dudley and Sarah Ison, ‘NZYQ debacle: Labor under attack for shifting blame on ankle bracelets’, The Australian, 20 March 2024
- Ben Doherty, ‘‘The wait is too long’: the refugees left in PNG after a decade in Australia’s offshore detention’, The Guardian, 17 March 2024
- Cam Wilson, ‘People are using error-prone AI chatbots to help them migrate to Australia’, Crikey, 28 February 2024
- Mike Seccombe, ‘Everything Peter Dutton is getting wrong on asylum seekers’, 7am (podcast), 27 February 2024
- Mike Seccombe, ‘No, Peter, there is not a flotilla of boats coming’, The Saturday Paper, 24 February 2024
- Daanyal Saeed, ‘Will Albanese follow the Coalition handbook of staying schtum over on-water matters?’, Crikey, 20 February 2024
- Dave Marchese, ‘Why politics is all about 'stopping the boats' again’, Triple J Hack (radio/online), 20 February 2024
- Julian Hattem, ‘Are the Pacific’s Climate Migration Experiments a Preview for the World?’, Migration Policy Institute’s Changing Climate, Changing Migration (podcast), 25 January 2024
- Jane McAdam, ‘How the ICJ could shape protection for people displaced in the context of climate change’, Researching Internal Displacement (blog), 24 January 2024
- Chelsea Ong, ‘Climate change has forced millions to flee their homes — and Asia is ‘not prepared’’, CNBC, 3 January 2024
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- Jane McAdam and Tamara Wood, ‘ A different kind of climate movement: the Kaldor Centre Principles on Climate Mobility’, Pearls and Irritations, 8 December 2023
- AAP, ‘Human rights warning over detention laws crack down’, The Daily Mail, 7 December 2023
- James Morrow, ‘Labor’s sneaky law ‘reform’ will wind up weakening our borders’, The Daily Telegraph, 5 December 2023
- Madeline Gleeson, ‘The case against mandatory detention’, The Saturday Paper, 2 December 2023
- Sean O’Shannessey, ‘Historic ‘Climate Refuge’ Deal Struck Between Tuvalu and Australia’, The Wire, 23 November 2023
- Julian Morrow, ‘The future of forced migration’, ABC Sunday Extra, 19 November 2023
- Aarathi Krishnan, ‘Life in the time of polycrisis’ The Saturday Paper, 18 November 2023
- Mike Seccombe, ‘The art of the Tuvalu deal’, The Saturday Paper, 18 November 2023
- Jane McAdam, ‘Australia’s offer of climate migration to Tuvalu residents is groundbreaking – and could be a lifeline across the Pacific’, The Conversation, 11 November 2023
- AFP, ‘Australia offers Tuvalu citizens climate refuge’, The Daily Mail, 10 November 2023
- Mary Anne Kenny, ‘The High Court has decided indefinite detention is unlawful. What happens now?’, The Conversation, 10 November 2023
- Aleksandra Bliszczyk, ‘High Court Rules Indefinite Immigration Detention Unlawful, Overturning Precedent for 20-Year Policy’, Vice News, 9 November 2023
- Kat Wong, ‘Indefinite immigration detention of asylum seekers ruled unlawful by High Court’, 7 News, 9 November 2023
- Deborah Groarke, ‘‘They are humans, like you': advocates prepare High Court challenge to indefinite mandatory detention’, SBS, 1 November 2023
- Jane McAdam and Ben Saul, ‘‘Gaza is being strangled’: Why Israel’s Evacuation Order Violates International Law’, The Conversation, 17 October 2023
- Paul Karp, ‘Australia’s system of indefinite immigration detention to face high court challenge’, The Guardian, 4 October 2023
- Jane McAdam, ‘Maui After Fire Illustrates Need to Plan for Longer-Term Disaster Displacement’, Just Security, 5 September 2023
- Madeline Gleeson, ‘How Australia shaped Britain's refugee policy’, The Saturday Paper, 2 September 2023
- Madeline Gleeson, ‘How Australia inspired the UK’s floating detention centre’, 7am (podcast), 21 August 2023
- Rachel Withers, ‘Don’t rock the submarine’, The Monthly, 21 August 2023
- Senator David Pocock, ‘Back with a bang’, DavidPocock.com.au, 7 August 2023
- Jane Mcadam, Brian Barbour, Claire Higgins, Daniel Ghezelbash, Madeline Gleeson, Tristan Harley, ‘Our cruel and costly offshore processing system was a failure. We have a better solution’, 27 July 2023
- Hannah Richie, ‘Nauru: Why Australia is funding an empty detention centre’, BBC, 2 July 2023
- Joseph Brookes, ‘Laureate Fellowships land $54m for long-term research’, InnovationAus.com, 3 July 2023
- Ashley Westerman, ‘Australia brings its last refugee on the Pacific island of Nauru to its mainland’, NPR, 26 June 2023
- Ben Doherty and Eden Gillespie, ‘Australia to move last refugee from offshore processing on Nauru – but its cruelty and cost are not over’, 24 June 2023
- ‘10 things you can do to help’, Red Cross, 15 June 2023
- Jordana Silverstein, ‘Dismantling the myth that ‘stopping the boats’ is in children’s best interests’, 9 June 2023
- Denham Sadler, ‘Exclusive: UN set to sanction Australia over human rights abuses’, The Saturday Paper, 20 May 2023
- Chantelle Al-Khouri, ‘The UK copying Australia's refugee policy is a bad idea, refugee advocates say’, ABC News, 22 May 2023
- Jane McAdam, ‘Amid global warning of ‘exodus’, pacific countries lead the way on mobility responses’, Researching internal Displacement (blog), 20 April 2023
- Sara Tomevska, ‘After a decade living in Australia, 12000 asylum seekers remain in limbo’, SBS News, 3 April 2023
- Tiffany Turnbull, ‘How Australia wrote the 'stop the boats' playbook’, BBC, 18 March 2023
- Erina Handley, ‘Australians share their stories of losing and regaining their citizenship under outdated law’, ABC News, 4 March 2023
- Jenny Brinkworth, ‘Giving all refugees a fair go’, The Southern Cross, 3 March 2023
- Melissa Sweet, ‘Welcome news for thousands of refugees, but Federal Government urged to do more for others who remain in need’, Croakey Health Media, 15 February 2023
- Daniel Ghezelbash, ‘Changes to temporary protection visas are a welcome development – and they won’t encourage people smugglers’, The Conversation, 15 February 2023
- ‘Longstanding injustice ends for 19,000 refugees after 10 years of limbo’, Amnesty International Australia, 13 February 2023
- Finn McHugh, ‘Why this controversial prison firm's $69 million Nauru asylum seeker deal is under scrutiny’, SBS News, 22 January 2023
- ‘How Will Climate Migration Reshape Our World?’, What’s On Sydney, 20 January 2023
- The Economist, ‘Catastrophes naturelles : quel avenir pour les réfugiés climatiques?’, 20 January 2023
- Deborah Cassrels, ‘Humanity for refugees shrivels under a failed system’, The Market Herald, 13 January 2023