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A woman washes her clothes in the al-Hawl camp in 2019.

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

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Illustration: Andrew Dyson

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
A man has died in the Royal National Park after being pulled unresponsive from a swimming hole on Monday, November 25.

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
The government has dumped the immigration detention centre contract with Serco.

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
Feinstein says guitars remain the most popular instrument among detainees, although there are often requests for regional instruments, especially from asylum seekers from the Middle East.

‘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
Police doused “neo-Nazis” in pepper spray as they tried to disrupt a refugee rally.

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
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Immigration Minister Tony Burke will have to sign off on every Gazan refugee allowed to stay in Australia on a temporary humanitarian visa.

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
Former president Donald Trump has suggested murders have “bad genes”.

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
Karam Ismail with his son, Oday, outside their Melbourne suburban townhouse.

The day that turned their lives to rubble: The escape of three families from Gaza

Palestinians in Gaza have long experienced violence from Israeli forces, but the war after October 7 has been unlike anything they’ve lived through. These are the stories of three families who fled to Australia this year.

  • Sophie Aubrey
High school sweethearts Noel Yandamutso Zihabamwe and Delphine Uwamwezi Yandamutso.

As refugees, they slept on the ground. Three kids, study and work is ‘nothing’

When Noël fled the Rwandan regime, his long-time sweetheart Delphine followed.

  • Amanda Hooton

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