Seizures highlight big boat strategy
PEOPLE-smugglers are cramming as many passengers as they can on asylum-seeker vessels, with two big boats intercepted overnight.
PEOPLE-smugglers are cramming as many passengers as they can on asylum-seeker vessels, with two big boats intercepted overnight.
THE boss of detention-centre operator Serco says the firm was so “overstretched” it resorted to using admin staff as security guards during a riot.
VISA applicants will pay an extra $613m in fees over the next four years as Labor struggles to deliver its promised budget surplus.
OVERCROWDING, poor security and a surge in asylum-seeker arrivals were behind the riots at detention centres.
A REPORT into violent riots in detention centres has called for special envoys to help return failed asylum-seekers home.
SEVERE overcrowding of Australia’s immigration detention network has been blamed for riots at Christmas Island and Villawood earlier this year.
THE collapse of offshore processing threatens to strain law enforcement agencies to breaking point.
CORRECTIONS by Labor and the IPCC have undermined the broadcaster’s credibility.
LABOR will rewind Australia’s border protection policies to “pre-Tampa” days, returning to a uniform asylum-seeker processing regime.
AT least 100 asylum seekers a month will move into community detention from today as Labor begins to empty detention centres.
IMMIGRATION Minister Chris Bowen is certain all Labor MPs will vote for the government’s amendments to migration laws.
FIFTY asylum-seekers in a tiny, secret compartment of an Indonesian fishing boat remained hidden from a Customs boarding party.
LABOR has warned of a looming surge in asylum-seeker boats as its Malaysia Solution faces two weeks of limbo.
AT least four children were among 175 asylum-seekers transferred to Christmas Island yesterday from two boats.
THE 800 asylum-seeker allocation under the Malaysia Solution will be exhausted within six to 12 months.
THE interception of two asylum-seeker boats has sparked a fresh political brawl over proposed Migration Act amendments.
A GOVERNMENT watchdog has questioned Australia’s ability to conduct security checks on refugees under its Malaysian Solution
UNIVERSITIES will be allowed to entice foreign students with quick visa approvals and the right to two years of work after graduation.
LABOR’s bid to put offshore processing of asylum-seekers beyond doubt is on hold, with parliament rising tonight without a vote.
BOB Brown says the Greens’ minority government deal with Labor would survive a change of prime minister.
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