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Nick McKenzie, Caroline Wilson given special Walkley honours as The Age scoops awards

Nick McKenzie, Caroline Wilson given special Walkley honours as The Age scoops awards

Nick McKenzie and investigative reporter Chris Masters received a special Walkley Honour for Media Freedom, while Wilson was honoured for her outstanding contribution to journalism.

  • by Calum Jaspan

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We broke an important story this week. It took more than a year to land

We broke an important story this week. It took more than a year to land

In an era of media speed, slow-cooked journalism is delivering results for our subscribers and society.

  • by Patrick Elligett
No more quick fixes: Real solutions needed after immigration problems laid bare
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Immigration

No more quick fixes: Real solutions needed after immigration problems laid bare

Sustained investigative reporting has uncovered wide-reaching problems in our immigration system. The government response will be closely watched.

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‘Millions on planes’: Boat focus blinded Home Affairs to real abuses, says Nixon
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‘Millions on planes’: Boat focus blinded Home Affairs to real abuses, says Nixon

Former top cop Christine Nixon reveals that, as rorters and criminals flooded the visa system, the authorities went missing.

  • by Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
Alleged sex trafficking boss deported over underground prostitution network

Alleged sex trafficking boss deported over underground prostitution network

Binjun Xie has been arrested and deported from Australia as the federal government shakes up border security to reduce exploitation of foreign workers.

  • by Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
‘Party’s over for rorters’: Government cracks down on visa scams

‘Party’s over for rorters’: Government cracks down on visa scams

Private colleges will be banned from paying commissions to education agents who poach students from rival institutions in a sweeping crackdown on visa rorting.

  • by Matthew Knott
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Hundreds caught up in crackdown on sex trafficking, organised crime

Hundreds caught up in crackdown on sex trafficking, organised crime

Almost two dozen women have been intercepted at the border on suspicion of being brought into the country as part of sex-trafficking operations.

  • by Marta Pascual Juanola
Anti-trafficking immigration reforms cannot come soon enough
Editorial
Editorial

Anti-trafficking immigration reforms cannot come soon enough

We must call out willful blindness towards illegal – or “grey” – immigration.

  • The Age's View
Fake schools, fake students: Criminals make mockery of education visas

Fake schools, fake students: Criminals make mockery of education visas

A secret review of the immigration system shows how some criminal syndicates own every step of the chain to game the education visa process and gain access to the country.

  • by Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
‘Grotesque abuses’: Secret review of migration system scathing of failures

‘Grotesque abuses’: Secret review of migration system scathing of failures

Poor management of the nation’s already inadequate immigration and visa laws and a focus on stopping boat arrivals has allowed organised crime syndicates to flourish.

  • by Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
‘Tough as nails’: Former top cop to helm sex, drug trafficking inquiry

‘Tough as nails’: Former top cop to helm sex, drug trafficking inquiry

Traffickers and people exploiting foreign workers have been rorting Australia’s migration system to ply their trades. Now former chief commissioner Christine Nixon will conduct an inquiry.

  • by Nick McKenzie

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