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Deborah Cassrels was The Australian’s first Bali-based correspondent and has written extensively on refugees, politics, terrorism, crime and social justice. She was nominated for a Walkley Award in 2016 for her work on terrorism in Indonesia. Her first book, a memoir about her journalism in Indonesia, titled "Gods and Demons", was published in 2020.

A vicious cycle of terrorism in Indonesia

Amid political volatility, are extremists forging inroads in their goal for an Islamic state?

The disturbing spectacle of rising antisemitism

How hate and bigotry have been weaponised by political extremism.

Humanity for refugees shrivels under a failed system

Are asylum seekers held in limbo the victims of political dithering or mere ineptitude?

Behold the ambiguity of modern beauty pageants

Can an old-fashioned concept, steeped in feminist protest, survive?

Journalism in the jaws of PR

On the role of public relations in journalism’s continued struggle.

How to bag an arts grant: Professional creativity has become a privilege of the politicised ‘elite’

Literary largesse seems ever more contingent on ideologically-driven concepts such as race, gender and colonialism.

A Keystone Cops revival, but nobody’s laughing

Domestic violence victims, at the mercy of police ineptitude and bureaucratic bungling, find themselves further subjugated.

Trouble in the stratasphere

Mapping the insidious, self-serving underbelly of strata-title living.

The bizarre inequity of Australia’s refugee policies

What New Zealand gains may be Australia’s loss.

Down and out in the eyes of Big Brother

Of all the distractions faced by drivers, merely touching a mobile phone is the unforgivable sin.