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Australian immigration and asylum

Latest news affecting Australian immigration and asylum from the Guardian

August 2024

  • Australia's home affairs minister Tony Burke, standing in front of an Australian flag, speaking to media

    Pressure grows to end ‘double standard’ on Australian visas for Palestinians fleeing conflict

    Palestinian advocacy groups want the Labor government to give those fleeing Gaza a humanitarian pathway like those offered to Afghans and Ukrainians

July 2024

  • Hands holding Australian flags between fence railings

    Albanese’s cabinet reshuffle is a chance to reset the rhetoric on immigration and multiculturalism

    Giridharan Sivaraman
  • Mike Pezzullo and Peter Dutton

    The Coalition’s home affairs experiment was doomed to fail. Tony Burke has a huge job on his hands

    Abul Rizvi
  • Tony Burke

    Tony Burke blasts ‘idiotic’ suggestion he would weaken security checks for Palestinians

  • Illustration showing multiple graduation mortar boards, with one made out of $100 notes.

    Degrees devalued
    Australian universities accused of awarding degrees to students with no grasp of ‘basic’ English

  • Immigration detainee charged over alleged drug ring operating from inside Villawood detention centre

  • The rural network, Victoria
    Regional Australians have opened their hearts to refugees – we should open pathways to match

    Dellaram Vreeland
  • Australia news live
    CrowdStrike has ‘issued a fix’ to Windows outage – as it happened

  • A Japanese woman and her son were forced to stay in Australia, now they are being forced to leave

  • Andrew Giles released murderer into community detention before NZYQ high court ruling, documents show

  • Aneeta’s violent husband tried to sabotage her Australian visa application. She’s one of hundreds to secure one anyway

  • Australia to strike new funding deal with Papua New Guinea to manage transferred asylum seekers

  • International students should make up no more than a third of university cohort, RMIT vice-chancellor says

  • Surge in Palestinians applying for protection while in Australia prompts calls to create ‘emergency uplift’ visa

  • Labor hikes international student visa fees as sector warns of ‘death by 1,000 cuts’

  • Australian Border Force Commissioner Michael Outram during Senate Estimates

    Drugs, alcohol and ‘horrendous’ attacks in detention centres leave ABF reeling

    Commissioner Michael Outram appeals for greater powers to manage ‘high level of risk’ and worrying rates of addiction in facilities
  • Nasrudin Yahya under a pier with a boat in the background

    Indonesian boys, Australian jails
    After serving years as children in Australian adult prisons, Indonesians reveal new anguish

    As a 16-year-old facing an Australian court, Nasrudin Yahya had ‘no idea’ he was going to jail because his interpreter did not speak his language
  • Kevin at his home in Indonesia.

    Indonesian boys, Australian jails
    Indonesian boys jailed by Australia claim no translation provided in court

    Minors who were locked up in adult prisons for people smuggling say they could not understand proceedings and thought they were going home
  • University of Wollongong sign

    Job threat for Australian university staff as claims international student cuts are being weaponised

  • Farhad Bandesh during his detention on Manus Island

    After a decade in detention I call Australia home. Labor’s deportation bill is horrific

    Farhad Bandesh
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