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Rescuers attend to the 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone (circled) who was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea.

11-year-old survives floating alone for days after shipwreck

The “exhausted and cold” girl was saved by a German-flagged sailboat after withstanding a three-day storm and big waves.

  • Colleen Barry and Maria Grazia Murru

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

Student visa desperation: Appeals blow out, asylum claims climb

Former immigration department official Abdul Rivsi said it was probably the highest proportion of students claiming asylum since the Tiananmen Square massacre.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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Australian Border Force put the men on two boats and turned them back to Indonesia without maps or GPS. This one ran aground on rocks on Rote Island.

No maps, no GPS, no training: How 44 people survived being turned back in the Timor Sea

Many members of the group tried to reach Australia after seeing a TikTok video promising them high wages. They never made it.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
In the year to May, about one in five prospective students had their visa applications refused.

Asylum claims at six-year high as record numbers await decision

The list of people in limbo is growing by about 1000 a month as huge backlogs and five-year appeal wait times expose the immigration system to exploitation.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Asylum seekers rescued from a sinking boat.

This rule puts Border Force workers above the law – and it was just quietly extended

The government has renewed a rule that exempts Operation Sovereign Borders staff from the need to take “reasonable care” not to harm asylum seekers at sea.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Protesters outside the Department of Home Affairs Office in Melbourne’s Docklands on Thursday display portraits of a 23-year-old asylum seeker who died in Melbourne on Wednesday after setting himself on fire.

Asylum seeker dies in Melbourne a day after self-immolation

Mano Yogalingam had been part of a protest demanding permanent residency for more than 8000 people who arrived in Australia by boat more than a decade ago.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Henrietta Cook

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