November 2024
Former head of immigration enforcement named US ‘border tsar’
Tom Homan was widely expected to be offered a position related to the border and Trump’s pledge to launch the largest deportation operation in US history.
- Jill Colvin
May 2024
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
- Opinion
- Refugees
Chinese asylum seekers are paying $15,000 to reach the US via Mexico
About 37,000 people from the Asian nation were detained at the United States’ southern border last year.
- Slavoj Žižek
PM blames DPP, bureaucrats for Perth couple bashing, detainee debacle
The Coalition has accused the government of duck-shoving accountability for its pledge to keep the community safe.
- Phillip Coorey
April 2024
Indefinite detention ‘not punitive’: solicitor-general
A detained Iranian has taken his legal bid for freedom to the High Court in a case that could determine the fates of hundreds of immigrants and government policy.
- Kat Wong and Farid Farid
Former Border Force boss rattles the tin, eyes the ASX
The former face of the Coalition’s Stop the Boats campaign wants $20 million to fund his private security outfit’s roll-up of three other companies.
- Updated
- Max Mason
Boat arrivals taken to Nauru after reaching mainland
A third boat has made it to mainland Australia in five months, adding to pressure on the Albanese government over border protection.
- Andrew Tillett
March 2024
Coalition, Greens, Hanson sink Labor’s emergency deportation bill
The Coalition would now “own it” if more failed asylum seekers were ordered out of detention by the High Court, the government said.
- Andrew Tillett
- Analysis
- Andrew Giles
Legislate rather than litigate: why Labor is feeling heat on detainees
Successive governments have felt they need to rush migration laws into parliament to stay ahead of people smugglers and the courts.
- Andrew Tillett
Tough visa rules would ban entire countries
Foreigners would be banned from coming to Australia, even as tourists, if their home country refused to accept the return of failed asylum seekers.
- Andrew Tillett
Fresh wave of immigration detainee releases expected
The Albanese government is bracing for a fresh wave of High Court cases – and rulings – against the powers to hold people in immigration detention indefinitely.
- Andrew Tillett
February 2024
Immigration, border security start to resonate with voters
Voters are reporting growing concerns about the two issues, providing an early warning for Labor which has been badly burned in this area in the past.
- Phillip Coorey
Dutton aiding people smugglers with overblown claims: PM
Anthony Albanese has accused Peter Dutton of acting as a cheer squad for people smugglers by over-egging the seriousness of the latest arrival.
- Phillip Coorey
Boat arrivals who reached WA taken to Nauru
Andrew Hastie said the government was “soft and weak” on national security as the opposition doubled down on its attacks over the boat arrival.
- Tom McIlroy and Maxim Shanahan
No detention orders sought for freed immigration detainees
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said applications were under way by the government, but any orders had to meet a high legal threshold.
- Tom McIlroy
January 2024
The world’s most powerful – and weakest – passports
Some nations have access to almost 200 destinations without having to apply for visas. Citizens of other countries, however, face a lot of paperwork.
- Kelsey Ables
December 2023
People smugglers will twist court ruling to load their boats: admiral
Australian border officials are braced for a potential influx of asylum seeker boats after the High Court’s ruling against indefinite immigration detention.
- Andrew Tillett
- Analysis
- Clare O'Neil
In a messy week for Albanese, Labor’s ‘cleaner’ emerges
Clare O’Neil is a Labor rising star but risks being sucked into the Home Affairs vortex.
- Andrew Tillett
July 2023
Shares soar as US government buys up Aussie company’s anti-drone tech
Shares in ASX listed defence tech company DroneShield have soared 19 per cent, after it struck a $33m deal to sell equipment to the US Department of Defence.
- Nick Bonyhady
February 2023
Labor ‘opens door to people smugglers’: Coalition
The federal opposition has seized on revelations extra military ships and aircraft have been deployed to carry out patrols of the northern approaches to Australia.
- Andrew Tillett