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Andrew Hastie says the latest incident represented another failure in the Albanese government’s record on border protection.

‘Who are these people?’ Hastie sounds alarm after Chinese nationals found wandering in remote Aboriginal community

It is the second time a group of foreign nationals have been detained after arriving by boat in the remote Kimberley region since February 2024.

  • Hannah Murphy

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WA police handed over the six men, who were found wandering in the remote Aboriginal community Kalumburu earlier this week, to border authorities.
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Border authorities detain foreign nationals found wandering in WA community

WA police handed over the six men, who were found wandering in the remote Aboriginal community Kalumburu earlier this week, to border authorities.

Two of six Chinese nationals who were found wandering in Kalumburu, in WA’s remote north, being escorted by Border Force officers earlier this week.

Chinese men detained after being found wandering in remote WA coastal town

Six Chinese nationals were found by authorities at the community of Kalumburu on Western Australia’s remote northern coast earlier this week.

  • Hannah Murphy
Australian Zahra Ahmed with her son Ibrahim in the al-Hawl camp in north-east Syria in 2019.

Australia leaves the fate of its IS brides to the American army

Documents released in Senate estimates show the 37 Australian women and children could be extracted from Syria by the US military with one simple move by Australia.

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Burke was speaking about a neo-Nazi whose Australian visa was revoked.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Burke was speaking about a neo-Nazi whose Australian visa was revoked.

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
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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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