The international community founded the United Nations in 1945 as the centrepiece of an ambitious institutional strategy to prevent the recurrence of world war, global depression, and massive humanitarian crises. Sixty years later the world is again confronting multiple governance challenges, none of which can be met through unilateral or bilateral means alone, and the...

Far from being rigorously protected, Australia's borders actually contain a gaping hole, argues William Maley. It is a hole through which tourists travel - but as the recent Willie Brigitte case shows, others with more sinister agendas can use it to enter Australia as well.