Amy Nethery

2 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Peter Ferguson |Amy Nethery |Zim Nwokora |Andrew Young

The rise of the so-called “professional politician” has been widely lamented in both the academic literature and the media. Professional politicians are considered skilled in the techniques of politics, but remote from the interests and concerns of their constituents and uninterested in actual public policy problems, let alone fundamental questions about the public good.

Nov 17, 2024 | thebulletin.net.au | Amy Nethery

After nearly a year without basic income and support services, 42 refugees and asylum seekers remaining in Papua New Guinea will soon begin receiving a meagre allowance of 900 kina (A$338) per week from the Australian government. These men are former Manus Island detainees who were released in 2016 after the PNG Supreme Court ruled that Australia’s offshore detention facility was unconstitutional[1].

Jul 2, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Peter Ferguson |Amy Nethery |Zim Nwokora

Ferguson, Peter[1];Nethery, Amy[1];Nwokora, Zim[1][1]School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Alfred Deakin Institute of Citizenship and Globalization, Deakin UniversityLocalización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 77, Nº 3, 2024, págs.

Dec 6, 2023 | theconversation.com | Michelle Peterie |Amy Nethery

After a week of non-stop headlines, the government’s preventative detention legislation is being debated in the lower house, just in time for the end of the sitting year. It’s likely to pass on Thursday. The new laws will allow former immigration detainees to be re-detained if they are judged to pose a high risk of committing serious violent or sexual crime.

Jul 24, 2023 | australianbookreview.com.au | Amy Nethery

The historian Jordana Silverstein’s masterful new book, Cruel Care, begins with an account of the Murugappan family. Many Australians will remember this family: the hard-working parents seeking asylum from Sri Lanka, and their two Australian-born children, taken from their home in Biloela by the Australian government at five o’clock one morning in 2018. The family was detained for four years in Melbourne and Perth and on Christmas Island.