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Visa applications from overseas students have halved compared to July and August last year.

Go-slow visas to provide quick fix for ballooning international student numbers

Labor will issue a go-slow on student visa processing once universities hit a certain number to get around Peter Dutton’s decision to block its student caps bill.

  • Paul Sakkal and Natassia Chrysanthos

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Rabbi Shlomo Kohn inside the blackened shell of the fire-bombed synagogue in Melbourne on Tuesday.

The moment a Labor minister offered Adass rabbi a permanent home in Australia

Last Friday, Rabbi Shlomo Kohn’s synagogue attracted the eyes of the nation. This week, he and his family were given good news.

  • Paul Sakkal
The five remaining incarcerated members of the Bali Nine (from left) Martin Stephens, Si-Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Matthew Norman and Scott Rush.

Philippines and Indonesia set precedent for Bali Five return

An Indonesian minister says the Philippines has agreed to the same prisoner transfer proposal submitted to Australia.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, left, shakes hands with Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Legal, Human Rights, Immigration and Correctional Affairs, Yusril Ihza Mahendra.

Plans to return Bali Five home to Australia hit by complications

Indonesia has given Australia a draft proposal of how it wants the transfer of the remaining Bali Nine prisoners to work in the most tangible sign a deal will be done.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
Previous Australian governments had raised the fate of the Bali Nine over the years.

Bali Nine members’ fate will be in Australia’s hands if they return home: Indonesia

Indonesia says it will be up to Australia to commute their sentences, as it expects Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to continue negotiations in Indonesia next week.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Karuni Rompies
Immigration Minister Tony Burke during question time in November.

Australia will pay countries to take our ‘undeportables’ in latest High Court fix

Labor’s agenda has won the Coalition’s support, but the Greens said it was the most “extreme migration legislation since the White Australia policy”. 

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton speaks in Canberra today.

Rich city universities got off too lightly under Labor’s caps: Dutton

Peter Dutton promised deeper cuts to student numbers and said “plenty of international students in pretty schmick accommodation” were stopping Australians from accessing housing.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
A fresh High Court ruling has forced the Labor government into new measures for people who refuse deportation.

Labor wants Australia to pay countries to take former detainees

The proposed laws come as former immigration detainees are told they are freed from curfews and electronic monitoring after a High Court challenge.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Two men in immigration detention have been freed ahead of their court hearings challenging their continued custody.

Labor back to drawing board on ankle bracelet laws after High Court defeat

The High Court ruled that forcing former immigration detainees to wear ankle bracelets and live under curfews is unlawful, in a massive blow to the Albanese government that Tony Burke vowed to counter with new laws.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
In the year to May, about one in five prospective students had their visa applications refused.

Government to miss immigration targets again as Kiwis flock to Australia

Treasury boss Steven Kennedy has revealed net overseas migration will miss the government’s own forecasts, heaping pressure on the Albanese government.

  • Shane Wright and Natassia Chrysanthos

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