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Klaus Neumann is Professor of History at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology. He has authored and edited books about social and public memory, the response to refugees and asylum seekers, and historical justice, most recently Historical Justice and Memory (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015, co-edited with Janna Thompson) and Across the Seas: Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History (Black Inc., 2015). Much of his most recent writing is about the current response to refugees in Germany (see http://insidestory.org.au/authors/Klaus-Neumann)
"Nope, nope, nope": Australia's Response to the Refugees Crises in the Andaman Sea and in the Mediterranean in 2015
Australia has long prided itself on being one of the world’s premier destinations for refugees. In more recent years, however, the comparative size of Australia’s humanitarian program has declined in relation both to the country’s overall migrant intake and to Australia’s population.
