Rife violence, drugs exposed in detention centre audit The prolonged detention of children and risk of violence are among serious concerns raised in a recent audit of a notorious immigration detention centre. AAP · Aug 19
US firm fined for Australian immigration security failures. How much? Border force refuses to say Gavan Reynolds cites ‘commercial-in-confidence nature of the contract’ in declining to answer Greens senator’s question in parliament The Guardian - AU · May 28
Claim That "100% Real Chocolate" Can't Include "Soy Lecithin and Natural Flavors" "Is Half-Baked, and Is 100% Dismissed" From Foster v. Nestle USA, Inc., decided Tuesday by Judge Steven Seeger (N.D. Ill.): Stephanie Foster has a sweet tooth,… The post Claim That "100% Real Chocolate" Can't Include "Soy Lecithin and Natural Flavors" "Is Half-Baked, and Is 100% Dismissed" appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Apr 2
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’ US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’ The Guardian - AU · Dec 6, 2025
Australia’s home affairs department has let staff use Signal since Covid lockdowns, documents show Australian government’s use of Signal comes into focus after Trump administration group chat scandal The Guardian - AU · May 4, 2025
Australian home affairs secretary admits to using disappearing messages on Signal for work In wake of Trump administration group chat scandal, department’s chief operating officer tells Senate there is no ban on staff using the feature The Guardian - AU · Mar 27, 2025
National security boss uses disappearing texts for work Concerns have been raised about a home affairs secretary using an encrypted messaging app after a US scandal involving military plans sent on the same platform. AAP · Mar 27, 2025
Immigration detainee forcibly sedated while deported The forcible injecting of an immigration detainee with an antipsychotic drug as he was being deported has been slammed by a federal government watchdog. AAP · Dec 5, 2024
Deportation bill 'constitutionally unsound': inquiry A senate inquiry has been told more than 80,000 non-citizens could be removed from Australia under a Labor goverment bill. AAP · Nov 21, 2024
Andrew Giles approved rule change that raised risk serious criminals might keep visas Exclusive: former immigration minister raised threshold for ministerial reconsideration of character cancellations The Guardian - AU · Sep 3, 2024
'No change' in Nauru resettlement deal with New Zealand New Zealand should still resettle 96 asylum-seekers detained in Nauru despite its reservations, Australian officials say. AAP · Jul 4, 2024
Criminals facing deportation from Australia have had their visas restored. How did this happen and who is to blame? The January 2023 direction set out new rules for visa cancellations. But the government says it is being interpreted by the AAT in a way that was not intended The Guardian - AU · May 29, 2024
Labor reverses course on ministerial ruling that saw criminals given visas PM seeks to minimise fallout from revelation that dozens of visas were restored to non-citizens with criminal convictions facing deportation The Guardian - AU · May 28, 2024
Visa appeal tribunal told to go harder on criminals An independent tribunal will be given a new direction after an initial order to consider someone's ties to Australia allowed a rapist to remain in the country. AAP · May 28, 2024
The Guardian - AU · Apr 17, 2024 Labor’s deportation bill could affect 375 children born in Australia, advocates warn Greens senator David Shoebridge says hundreds face ‘real threat’ of being separated from parents or sent overseas to ‘unknown future’
The Guardian - AU · Apr 15, 2024 Labor’s deportation bill could affect several thousand more people than first estimated, inquiry told Up to 5,000 non-citizens could receive orders to cooperate with removal from Australia, home affairs officials say
The Guardian - AU · Mar 29, 2024 The week in parliament: Albanese’s attempts to appease Dutton land Labor in a political quagmire of its own making Curtailing of parliamentary debate frustrates crossbench, terse words over bureaucrat’s tears, and unlikely bedfellows on excessive-deaths motion
The Guardian - AU · Mar 27, 2024 Senator quits party to sit as independent – as it happened This blog is now closed.
The Guardian - AU · Mar 27, 2024 Labor’s deportation bill could be used to blacklist entire countries’ citizens from obtaining visas to Australia Greens attack legislation, now the subject of a Senate inquiry, as a ‘Trump-style travel ban’
AAP · Nov 28, 2023 New Home Affairs head appointed after Pezzullo sacking Stephanie Foster has been named as the new Home Affairs department secretary after former boss Mike Pezzullo was sacked.
The Guardian - AU · Oct 24, 2023 ‘Unjust and cruel’ lack of clarity still hangs over 64 refugees exiled in PNG Questions remain following whistleblower claims of corruption and nepotism in the Australian-sponsored program
AAP · Oct 22, 2023 Sidelined home affairs boss on full pay during probe Sidelined home affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo remains on his full pay package of $915,000 while his conduct is being investigated following leaked texts.
The Guardian - AU · May 23, 2023 Nauru offshore processing to cost Australian taxpayers $485m despite only 22 asylum seekers remaining Home affairs department officials dispute suggestions this year’s cost amounts to $22m a person
AAP · Apr 4, 2022 Parly staffers to log after-hours access Federal government staffers who visit Parliament House after hours will be monitored in a new trial, with bosses able to opt out of receiving information.