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The Bibby Stockholm, an accommodation barge, was used to house asylum seekers under Corporate Travel’s UK contract.

Australian sales furore turns spotlight on UK asylum hotels

The British government is investigating its contracts with an Australian travel company that helps manage thousands of asylum seekers.

  • David Crowe

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Mojgan Shamsalipoor

Mojgan, the Brisbane asylum seeker whose fight made headlines, free with permanent visa

In 2015, the Brisbane high school student was forcefully removed to a Darwin immigration centre, and she has remained in limbo on a six-monthly bridging visa. Finally, that has changed.

  • Felicity Caldwell
Nauru President David Adeang at Parliament House last year.

Wong, Burke admit to secret meetings with Nauru president

Wong’s office said she “raised recent media reports” with Nauru President David Adeang on Monday, but not until after he was photographed entering Parliament House on Tuesday.

  • Brittany Busch, James Massola and Nick McKenzie
President of Nauru, David Adeang and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a signing ceremony following a bilateral meeting at Parliament House in Canberra last year.

‘Dirty deals’: Nauru rorting, bikie gang allegations to be referred to NACC

Allegations of rorting, graft and bikie gangs infiltrating critical border security operations are set to be referred to the national anti-corruption watchdog.

  • Matthew Knott and Nicole Precel
More than 100,000 people with rejected asylum seeker claims have stayed in Australia.

‘Phenomenal’: How more than 100,000 people live in Australia with rejected claims for asylum

The record number was reached in August and has grown by 15,000 in the past year, despite attempts to clamp down on exploitation of the protection visa scheme.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Migrant families wade into the sea at Gravelines, France, in an attempt to board a small boat heading to the UK.

Australia offers helping hand as Britain struggles to stop wave of asylum seekers

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has outlined Australia’s approach to borders to his British counterpart as top top-level intelligence talks took place in London.

  • David Crowe
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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke speaks at Parliament House on Tuesday, beside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess.

‘It’s rushed, it’s secretive’: Burke quietly seeks to strip deportees of fair process

An hour before Tony Burke stood up to reveal details of Iran’s involvement in antisemitic attacks on Tuesday, he introduced new laws that other parties were not briefed on.

  • Brittany Busch and Natassia Chrysanthos
GRAVELINES, FRANCE - AUGUST 25: A man struggles in deep water as he carries a young child on his shoulders to try and board a migrant dinghy into the English Channel on August 25, 2025 in Gravelines, France. Migrant crossings by boat have caused much controversy in the UK, with far-right groups organising demonstrations outside hotels housing migrants across the country over the summer. As of late August 2025, more than 28,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats this year. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

‘I am as good as you’: Anguish and anger grow in France’s crowded migrant camps

Asylum seekers wait in broken tents among the rubbish strewn by those who have come before them. This is the destitution of the desperate.

  • David Crowe
Rishan, 27, a nurse in Canterbury who arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker when she was 17.

People in this city want the boats to stop. But they haven’t met Rishan

Traumatised and alone, the then 17-year-old made her way across northern Africa and Europe to seek safety in England.

  • David Crowe
Mounted police officers scuffle with demonstrators during a protest by anti-migrant Abolish Asylum System and counter protesters at Castle Park in Bristol, England.

‘Mass deportations’: Farage copies Australia in plan to stop the boats

Under extraordinary plans from the right-wing politician, asylum seekers who cross the English Channel would be sent to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • David Crowe

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