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A citizenship ceremony in Olympic Park.

What it’s like at one of Sydney’s so-called ‘vote-buying’ citizenship ceremonies

Under the Sydney Showground’s corrugated iron roof, hundreds of soon-to-be Australian citizens wore their Saturday best. But with allegations of an industrial-scale vote stack, one couple believed there was too much focus on voting.

  • Max Maddison

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Senator Kerrynne Liddle says claims a failed Voice referendum would harm reconciliation are ‘outrageous’.

Coalition senator fills in for Burke at citizenship ceremonies slammed by Dutton

Kerrynne Liddle spoke at a citizenship ceremony on behalf of Tony Burke on the same day Coalition colleagues implied he was using the events to swing votes in key seats.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Brisbane remains a popular city for people to go to university, enter the workforce and raise families.

Brisbane set for population shift not seen in Queensland since the 1970s

The federal government expects more people to be living in Greater Brisbane than the rest of Queensland within months.

  • Sean Parnell
Illustration: Joe Benke

As Dutton parades his softer side, let’s not forget how hard he’s played the politics of race

In these racially charged times, the opposition leader has returned to old ways as the election campaign approaches.

  • Sean Kelly
Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke announced the deal on Sunday.

Murderer among former detainees to be shifted to Nauru

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says the Pacific island nation has approached Australia to take three violent criminal members of a group of former immigration detainees.

  • Paul Sakkal

Should we fear growing separatism? Germany offers a clue

Immigration will be the No.1 issue at next week’s German election, part of a backlash against a well-meaning but ultimately misguided policy of multicultural integration.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Anais Flores at La Costeñita, her family’s Mexican restaurant in O’Neill.

How Trump instilled fear in a tiny town in Nebraska

The Flores family invited almost everyone they knew to their baby’s first birthday. But held in the shadow of the president’s immigration crackdown, they had no idea if anyone would turn up.

  • Annie Gowen and Sarah L. Voisin
Peter Dutton during question time last week.

‘There is no case for it’: Dutton’s visa plan could cost $2.5b

Public policy academics, former Immigration Department bosses and the Productivity Commission all say the plan to bring back the “significant investor visa” is a bad one.

  • David Crowe
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton shake hands at a Lunar New Year celebration in Box Hill in  Melbourne’s east on Saturday.

‘I think we’ll bring it back’: Dutton makes private pledge to review $5m investor visa

The opposition leader has vowed to review the significant investor visa, reversing a Labor decision to scrap the program over concerns it could bring spies and criminals into Australia.

  • David Crowe
Brazilians who were deported from US walk through the departure lounge at Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Amazonas state, on January 25, 2025.

It was the first deportation flight of the new Trump era. It descended into chaos

The diplomatic dust-up marked a turbulent weekend for President Donald Trump’s hard-line policy to deport millions of immigrants.

  • Jack Nicas

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