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Andrew Giles

October

Dozens of vocational colleges are taking extreme measures to enrol as many overseas students as possible before the end of the year.

Desperate colleges lure agents, students with cash offers

With the introduction of student caps looming, desperate vocational colleges are using unethical practices to shore up numbers.

  • Julie Hare

September

Gary Coonar will be forced to remove a recent $400,000 fitout to a commercial kitchen due to lack of students.

Banned colleges allocated thousands of places under student caps

Private vocational colleges say the allocation of caps for new international students for 2025 has been a ramshackle process.

  • Julie Hare

August

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are certain to spar over housing and migration in coming months.

Dutton and Albanese ignore ASIO warning to tone down Gaza brawl

Peter Dutton sees an advantage in keeping up the pressure on Anthony Albanese over visas for Gaza refugees, accusing him of making the country less safe.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Anti-migration protesters during riots outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, England, at the weekend. The hotel is being used as an asylum hotel.

Populist surge makes it essential to spread gains of migration

Conflict over migration is now breaking out into the open in Western nations. But excessive limits would have a high cost too.

  • Tanveer Ahmed

July

Tony Burke and Clare O’Neil take on two areas critical to the government’s electoral fortunes.

Albanese guts Home Affairs in pointed reshuffle

Anthony Albanese has gutted the Home Affairs department and moved aside the two ministers responsible for the troubled Immigration portfolio, in a modest but pointed reshuffle.

  • Phillip Coorey
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Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil.

Labor Right pushes for extra spot as O’Neil speculation swirls

Speculation is intensifying that Clare O’Neil will be shifted from Home Affairs and be replaced by Agriculture Minister Murray Watt.

  • Phillip Coorey
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles says the federal government wants to ensure more skilled migrants are going to the states that need them.

Queensland to cop skilled migrant cut amid boost to smaller states

Queensland will be the only Australian state to suffer a reduction in the number of skilled migrant allocations this financial year.

  • Tom Rabe

June

Peter Dutton

AFR readers back Dutton’s assessment of climate targets

Almost 70 per cent of readers believe Australia is unlikely to meet its “aggressive” emissions reductions targets.

  • Maxim Shanahan
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles had revoked Direction 99.

Giles junks Direction 99, seeks end to immigration saga

The opposition says the changes to Ministerial Directive 99 do not go far enough and is vowing tougher action if elected.

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  • Phillip Coorey
Peter Dutton says the Coalition has shown they’re a viable alternative to Labor.

More voters considering Coalition than 18 months ago: Dutton

The opposition leader has partly pinned the shift on Labor’s response to anti-Semitism; Immigration Minister Andrew Giles says a new ministerial direction on visas prioritises public safety. How the day unfolded.

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  • Hannah Wootton
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus: actually abolished the AAT

AAT plagiarist survives administrative cull

The body that decides on immigration appeals is getting a revamp. Though some familiar faces remain.

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  • Myriam Robin
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles in question time on Monday.

Immigration a rising concern for voters

Immigration has surged as an issue of concern among voters while the government’s perceived handling of the issue is continuing to decline.

  • Phillip Coorey

May

Anthony Albanese and Chris Luxon in Sydney last year

Albanese opens door for Giles’ exit amid NZ PM’s grave concerns’

Anthony Albanese is making no commitment to keeping the embattled immigration minister as he weighs a winter reshuffle.

  • Phillip Coorey
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles: in keeping with modern practice, Anthony Albanese will not let him walk.

Giles scandal shows we disdain bureaucracies until we need services

Slashing the capabilities of government departments means that in the real world, dodgy characters escape scrutiny and genuine needs go unanswered.

  • Laura Tingle

There won’t be a reshuffle until there is one

To move Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, a close factional ally of the Prime Minister and member of his praetorian guard, could cause more problems than it would solve.

  • Phillip Coorey
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Immigration Minister Andrew Giles during Question Time in Canberra on Wednesday.

Kiwis warn PM against a return to deporting criminals

New Zealand is seeking input into a new ministerial directive amid concerns the Albanese government will re-start deporting criminals.

  • Phillip Coorey
Treasurer Jim Chalmers in parliament on Wednesday.

Why rate cuts look even further away

The latest inflation figures look like bad news for interest rates, even if the government doesn’t agree.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles.

Labor revamps deportation directive to stem visa crisis

The controversial Direction 99 will be rewritten to ensure legal authorities “give weight to community safety” when hearing appeals against visa cancellations.

  • Phillip Coorey and Andrew Tillett
Industry Minister Ed Husic called for a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

Husic, inadvertently perhaps, has rained on the budget centrepiece

Industry Minister Ed Husic articulated a long-held view that the government needed to consider lowering the company tax burden to spur investment.

  • Phillip Coorey
Andrew Giles.

Giles orders urgent review into criminal ‘migrants’

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles says he is looking at freshly cancelling the visas of non-citizens who a tribunal has stopped from being deported.

  • Andrew Tillett

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