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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and frontbencher Jason Wood on the campaign trail in Melbourne on Tuesday.

Opposition migrant services spokesman declares family interests in migration firm

The Coalition’s shadow minister for migrant services has declared his family’s financial interests in a migration agency that helps people stay in Australia and overturn their visa refusals.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Masi Ayiik

Freed immigration detainee allegedly breached visa conditions 26 times before police shooting

Masi Ayiik’s earlier criminal history and persistent alleged visa breaches were revealed during a hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to decide if the 33-year-old should be released on bail. 

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
Departures of migrant visa holders are expected to accelerate in coming years, according to leading demographers.

Migration tipped to plummet as post-COVID visas set to expire

A key election issue is high immigration levels, but new research says these will plunge. That’s in addition to falling fertility and shorter lifespans.

  • Shane Wright
Australia’s 47th parliament recapped.

Albanese started his prime ministership on a high. Then in one month, things started to unravel

A record-breaking election and one month that changed it all: we recap the highs and lows of the 47th parliament.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
In this image taken from security footage, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts.

‘Looked like a kidnapping’: Student’s arrest in Trump crackdown caught on camera

The 30-year-old doctoral student was walking to meet friends for dinner when a man grabbed her on the footpath.

  • Jake Offenhartz, Kathy Mccormack and Michael Casey
Are international travellers still welcome in Trump’s America? You have to wonder.

Has Trump’s America become a hostile place for tourists?

I’m starting to wonder if foreign tourists are still welcome, after several cases of international visitors being detained in questionable circumstances.

  • Chris Bryant
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Nation’s capitals squeeze in an extra 430,000 people

Australia’s capital cities are home to a record 18.4 million people after their populations swelled by another 430,000 residents over the past year.

  • Shane Wright
New Zealanders are emigrating in record numbers in a trend their government may not be able to reverse. Pictured here is Bondi Beach in Sydney.

Why New Zealanders are migrating to Australia in record numbers

The government may not be able to reverse the trend, which one Kiwi describes as abandoning “a sinking boat”.

US federal law gives government agents the right to search people’s property, including their phones and laptops, at border entry points.

Tourist detentions at the US border: What international visitors should know

Incidents of travellers being denied entry into the US in recent weeks have sparked concern over what to expect at airports and other border crossings.

  • Claire Fahy
President Donald Trump and his team maintain they have not defied court orders.

The president, the judge and the flights that landed in the middle of the night

Donald Trump is embroiled in a legal showdown over his deportation of more than 200 alleged gang members. He’s relying on two words to get the scheme over the line, but legal scholars wonder if the government has crossed a red line by defying a court order.

  • Michael Koziol

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