Refugees
- Opinion
- Australia votes
As Dutton parades his softer side, let’s not forget how hard he’s played the politics of race
In these racially charged times, the opposition leader has returned to old ways as the election campaign approaches.
- Sean Kelly
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- Traffic incident
‘Probably an attack’: Children among injured as car drives into Munich crowd
The incident came hours before Munich was to host a conference of world leaders, and before Germany’s federal election.
- Anja Guder and Wolfgang Rattay
- Analysis
- Syrian conflict
Peter Dutton said it was too dangerous to go to this Syrian prison camp. We went there anyway
In the power vacuum left by Bashar al-Assad’s fall, amid the weakness of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, nobody knows who will control Syria or how they will rule.
- Michael Bachelard
- Opinion
- Human rights
Trump would love these terrifying laws. Why are we passing them without proper debate?
Entire communities of people, based only on where they are from, could be barred from Australia.
- Sarah Dale
Man in 20s dies in popular Royal National Park swimming hole
The tragedy at a waterfall near a well-known hiking trail took place as new funding for Bondi’s Float to Survive campaign expands its message nationally.
- Julie Power and Penry Buckley
Australia quietly ditches $4.6b detention contract with scandal-plagued Serco
The British multinational will no longer run immigration detention centres, ending a partnership that has been riddled with claims of violence, drug trade, neglect and understaffing.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
‘Everything else disappears’: How music brings relief in detention centres
Philip Feinstein, 76, collects donated instruments to deliver to those waiting in immigration detention.
- Penry Buckley
Neo-Nazis pepper-sprayed after attempting to disrupt refugee rally
Police dispersed a balaclava-clad group near a refugee encampment on Tuesday night, sending them running as demonstrators cheered.
- Cassandra Morgan
Burke to sign off on every Gazan refugee granted new humanitarian visa
Labor’s visa pathway for Palestinians fleeing the war gives the minister authority over who can apply.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Trump claims ‘bad genes’ to blame for crimes by undocumented migrants
Donald Trump has faced backlash for his rhetoric targeting undocumented immigrants. But his language has grown more dark and vilifying in his latest campaign.
- Patrick Svitek
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