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Burke was speaking about a neo-Nazi whose Australian visa was revoked.
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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke's press conference interrupted by a fly

Burke was speaking about a neo-Nazi whose Australian visa was revoked.

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n Australian Border Force boat leaves Broome on Wednesday evening carrying crayfishing boats purchased under a policy which sees them provided to illegal fishers and people smugglers before they are turned back in Australian waters.

Exclusive footage reveals boats at the centre of secretive Australian Border Force scheme

The footage, captured by a 9News Perth drone, shows the Australian Border Force’s 110-metre Ocean Shield leaving Broome Port carrying the four fishing boats.

  • Hamish Hastie and Rachael Clifford
A boat with rangers on the patrol.

WA rangers expose hiding spots of illegal fishers in croc country crackdown

It’s muggy, remote and unforgiving – but it’s also previously been the perfect place for illegal fishers to hide.

  • Hannah Murphy
Bibi Rahimi Farhangdost in the Indonesian town of Ciawi in February 2024.

Bibi’s father sold everything to save his daughter. He died before he could see her live

It’s not often enough in journalism that you can follow up a heartbreaking story with a positive outcome. This is one of those times.

  • Zach Hope
People demonstrate near the Bell Hotel on Sunday in Epping, England.

It’s a perfect English town. Now a battle over asylum seekers is ripping it apart

The quiet community – similar to leafy suburbs on the edges of Sydney and Melbourne – has become a flashpoint over asylum seekers as right-wing outsiders escalate the situation with violence.

  • David Crowe
Border security officers can see far more than your basic details when you are arriving in a country.

More than basic details: What border officials know about you

It’s not so much what immigration officers can see about you, but what they can’t.

  • Michael Gebicki
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Two French women have appeared before the Brisbane Magistrates Court charged for their alleged roles in a failed plot to import 32kg of methamphetamine into Australia.

French women charged with smuggling $29m of meth into Australia

It’s the second time efforts to import drugs have been intercepted in Brisbane in as many weeks.

  • Courtney Kruk
A composite image of Australian writer Alistair Kitchen, film director and actor Charlie Chaplin, and musician John Lennon with the words “access denied” superimposed across the composite.

The US says this Australian writer was expelled because of a drug lie. He’s not the first

American authorities once attempted to deport John Lennon, ostensibly for possessing cannabis.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Alistair Kitchen, a 33-year-old Australian man from Castlemaine, was detained and deported at the US border over his writing on student Palestine protests.

Australian deported from US says he was targeted for writing on Palestine protests

Alistair Kitchen’s mother said America under Donald Trump was “not a US we recognise now” after her son was interrogated and put on a plane back home.

  • Michael Koziol
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

‘Simply not true’: Indonesia rejects reports of Russian military base

Australia’s northern neighbour has reassured the federal government that Russia will not be allowed to base long-range aircraft 1400 kilometres from Darwin.

  • Matthew Knott

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/border-security-5v4