November 2023
- Exclusive
- Immigration
Australia has reached ‘peak migration’
Migrant numbers are likely to decline within months, but the issue will remain politically fraught.
- Julie Hare
May 2023
Aged care visa changes ‘ripe for rorting’
Visa changes designed to boost the aged care work force could trigger a new wave of dodgy courses and low-quality students, say immigration and education experts.
- Julie Hare
April 2022
Boothby independent stumbles on dual citizenship rule
Independent Boothby candidate Jo Dyer does know whether she is a dual British-Australian citizen, which would provide a lifeline to the Liberals’ campaign in South Australia’s only marginal seat.
- Georgie Moore
November 2021
Students, skilled migrants are next priority entrants
Talented foreign workers are needed to help Australia’s short-term economic recovery, but longer term, the government wants Australians filling vacancies.
- Ronald Mizen
March 2021
Immigration the missing piece of the COVID economic recovery
As long as borders remain shut, population will continue to be the missing piece of Australia’s economic recovery out of the coronavirus pandemic, writes Ronald Mizen.
- Ronald Mizen
October 2020
Budget lays bare the population dilemma
Where Tony Abbott failed to argue for a hefty cut to Australia's permanent migration program, the coronavirus pandemic has succeeded, with damaging implications for the economy.
- Ronald Mizen
September 2020
Stranded Australians 'desperately crying out for support'
An Australian lawyer living in Britain says he has been swamped with requests for support from Australians stranded overseas.
- Ronald Mizen
June 2020
Overseas travel collapsed by 99.7pc in April
Travel restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19 sent overseas visitor arrival numbers plunging close to 100 per cent in the largest fall on record.
- Matthew Cranston and Fiona Carruthers
March 2020
Josh Frydenberg fights off constitutional challenge
The Federal Court ruled that the Treasurer's refugee mother did not hold Hungarian citizenship when she arrived in Australia.
- Hannah Wootton
February 2020
Frydenberg fights citizenship challenge
Josh Frydenberg is fighting a court case brought by a member of Extinction Rebellion, who claims the Treasurer is not eligible to sit in Parliament.
- Liz Main
Indigenous men cannot be deported as 'aliens', says High Court
The High Court has found the Parliament cannot treat Aboriginal Australians as "aliens" even if they are not citizens.
- Michael Pelly
November 2019
Progress Frydenberg eligibility case: lawyers
Lawyers involved in a challenge to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's eligibility to sit in the federal parliament have been urged to progress the case quickly.
- Marnie Banger
September 2019
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Important questions raised by the Gladys Liu saga
Chinese Australians in a democratic parliament are the best repudiation of Beijing's sharp power techniques
- The AFR View
July 2019
- Opinion
- Press freedom
One rule for politicians, and one for everyone else
Politicians leak secrets when it's useful to them. So what about their pursuit of journalists who do the same in the public's name, asks Laura Tingle.
- Laura Tingle
June 2019
Offshore detention cost up fivefold in a decade
At a time when the public service has been slashed, Home Affairs has avoided proper scrutiny around the costs of offshore processing, but that's about to change.
- Angus Grigg, Lisa Murray and Edmund Tadros
May 2019
Trump pledges to shake up immigration, make it more like Australia's
Donald Trump wants more English-speaking immigrants with skills and knowledge of American history and culture, and fewer relatives and family members.
- Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland