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Australian immigration and asylum

Latest news affecting Australian immigration and asylum from the Guardian

12 June 2024

  • The island nation of Nauru with an overlay of a barbed fence in the foreground.

    ‘What is our future?’: the Nauru detention centre was empty. Now 100 asylum seekers are held there

    The number of asylum seekers at the centre has been slowly growing, with fears they will spend years trapped on the island
  • Missing Ballarat woman Samantha Murphy

    Australia news live
    New ‘targeted’ search in Samantha Murphy investigation – as it happened

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  • University of Sydney

    New South Wales universities receive 40% of student fees from just three overseas countries

    Warnings of ‘concentration risk’ for sector as cap on international students anticipated

11 June 2024

  • Australian Border Force official hands out incoming passenger cards to travellers at Brisbane airport

    Australian Border Force searched phones of 10,000 travellers in past two years, data shows

  • commonwealth ombudsman Iain Anderson

    Two people held in Australian immigration detention longer than necessary due to email mishaps

9 June 2024

  • Sister Jane Keogh

    King’s birthday honours list 2024: from a nun who spent 26 days outside parliament to ‘Australia’s job queen’

    Refugee advocate Sister Jane Keogh, rich lister Sarina Russo, Asio chief Mike Burgess and ex-premiers Dan Andrews and Mark McGowan among award recipients

8 June 2024

  • Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles

    Non-citizen Andrew Giles wanted to be ‘rid of’ cannot be deported, court rules

  • UNSW in Sydney

    Tough assignment: Australian universities are desperate for more student housing, but not everyone’s on board

7 June 2024

  • Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles speaks to media during a press conference, in Melbourne

    Andrew Giles issues new rules for visa cancellations that make community safety ‘highest priority’

    Immigration minister announces direction 110 after previous rules used to overturn visa cancellations for non-citizens who committed serious offences

6 June 2024

  • Australian Border Force (ABF) Commissioner Michael Outram during Senate Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    Border force apologises for failing to prevent ‘misconduct’ after reports found bullying and harassment

    Exclusive: Apology issued to staff includes pledge ‘to foster a safe, inclusive, empowered, accountable and supportive workplace’

4 June 2024

  • Nauru island from the air - Pacific Ocean<br>Nauru island: the entire country seen from above - Island surrounded by the coral reef - the oval island has a narrow coastal belt with vegetation where settlements are located, the interior is mostly barren terrain with jagged limestone pinnacles due to the environmental damage caused by phosphate mining - Yaren and the airport on the left - Pacific Ocean - Pacific Community.

    Number of asylum seekers on Nauru jumps as Australia transfers 37 people who arrived by boat

    Deterrence policy against asylum seeker boats is under strain, with three vessels arriving in a week in May
  • Penny Wong during Senate estimates at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday.

    Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
    Wong calls for Gaza ceasefire saying ‘this war must end’ – as it happened

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  • 240604 Immigration directin 99 thumbnail

    Lost your way in the deportation debate? Peter Dutton has directions

    There’s only one way to go, apparently

3 June 2024

  • Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom who was killed in an IDF attack in Gaza.

    Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
    Former ADF chief to report on Zomi Frankcom’s Gaza aid convoy death in ‘coming weeks’ – as it happened

    This blog is now closed.
  • Andrew Giles

    Andrew Giles backs away from claim drones being used to track released immigration detainees

    Immigration minister says he relied on information from home affairs department that has since been ‘clarified’
  • Anthony Albanese and Andrew Giles in parliament

    The deportation debate is toxic politics – if the system is truly broken, we need more than kneejerk solutions

    Mary Crock
    Too afraid to oppose the Coalition’s repressive measures, Labor is now struggling with the legacies of both the failed home affairs experiment and the human mess of immigration detention

2 June 2024

  • Building with 'high court of Australia' signage

    Murderer and attempted murderer among 25 detainees released by ministerial discretion, documents reveal

  • Andrew Giles

    The vague wording and risky assumptions that landed Labor in a deportation debacle

  • Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles

    Full Story
    Will another immigration scandal topple a minister? – Full Story podcast

  • aerial picture of sand with Help written in it

    Teenagers rescued after writing ‘HELP’ in sand; WA to seize firearms of domestic violence accused – as it happened

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