Eleventh meeting | ASIA DIALOGUE ON FORCED MIGRATION | 2022
The Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration (ADFM) convened virtually for its eleventh meeting in 2022, with part part one taking place on 24 March and the second part taking place on 1 July. We...
Huffington Post on Beyond the Boats | December 2014
Travers McLeod is interviewed by Kyle Knight about Australia’s asylum seeker and refugee policy and CPD’s recent report Beyond the Boats, which recommended a regional Track II dialogue. “The fact that [Operation Sovereign Borders] has...
The Drum | 22 January 2014
Allegations of asylum seeker abuse; children in detention centres; conflict in Syria. CPD’s outgoing Executive Director Miriam Lyons joins former NSW Liberal leader, now with Barton Deakin, Peter Collins, the economics editor for The Age,...
Inside Story | 27 June 2013
No country is an island… Australia could help improve safety, shelter and healthcare through developing regional arrangements According to CPD Fellow Arja Keski-Nummi, Australia is hardly doing its part when it comes to refugees,...
Crikey | 11 June 2013
Asylum seeker policies that utilise scare tactics will not work. Both major parties want to tighten up the refugee determination process and stop the boats, CPD’s John Menadue and Arja Keski-Nummi ask, ‘where is...
The Wire | 13 June 2013
A comparison of immigration policies… While both major parties pursue populist policies, whether either set will work is questionable. CPD fellow Arja Keski-Nummi discusses the details and compares the party policies on immigration, with asylum...
ABC Australian Network News | 11 June 2013
Australian government calls off search for asylum seekers A brief interview with Arja Keski-Nummi, one of the authors of the Refugee Facts online media resource concluded Thom Cookes’s report on responses to the recent influx...
The Sydney Morning Herald | 11 June 2013
Arja Keski-Nummi interviewed: Abbot plan to stop boats ‘won’t work’… Arja is a CPD fellow and former First Assistant Secretary of the Refugee, Humanitarian and International Division of the Dept of Immigration and Citizenship. She...
Refugeefacts—media handbook | The truth about refugees & asylum seekers
New CPD online media resource addresses misinformation. Experts in this complex field of refugee and immigration policy, CPD fellows John Menadue, Arja Keski-Nummi and Kate Gauthier collaborated on a unique online media resource, which...
John Menadue and Arja Keski-Nummi | The Drum Unleashed, 29 August 2012
Seismic shift in asylum policy exposes ghosts of intolerance CPD Fellows ask how to best implement the imperfect set of solutions that is the Houston report While the government has acted wisely in its...