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Tributes flow after former Labor leader Simon Crean dies, aged 74

Labor luminary, unionist-turned-politician and former leader Simon Crean has died at the age of 74 on Sunday.

The New Daily

Russia launches high court challenge to keep embassy site near Australian parliament

Australia is confident cancellation of lease on national security grounds will withstand legal challenge

The Guardian - AU

Russia summons Australian envoy over Canberra lease

Russia has summoned the Australian ambassador to protest the scrapping of a land lease in Canberra for an embassy.

The New Daily

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Kremlin: Australia blocking new embassy 'Russophobic'

MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday blasted Australia's decision to block Russia from building a new embassy after intelligence officials warned it posed a security threat.

Bangkok Post

Australia seeking to stop Russia from building new embassy near Parliament for security reasons

Australia’s House of Representatives has passed legislation to prevent Russia from building its embassy near Parliament House on security grounds

The Independent UK

Australian government passes law cancelling lease on new Russian embassy site over security concerns

Anthony Albanese says he has briefed opposition on move in response to ‘clear security advice’ about risk of premises so close to parliament

The Guardian - AU

High Court rejects minister's people smuggler decision

The High Court has quashed Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil's decision to refuse an Iranian man's visa on the grounds he was a convicted people smuggler.

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PwC to remove staff involved in Australia tax leak scandal from govt work

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has agreed to remove staff with links to the leak and use of confidential Australian tax plans from government work, a senior government official told an inquiry on Thursday.

Reuters

Australia outs China as being behind cyber attack

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil says the Australian government will not hesitate to out the parties behind cyber attacks when it has the evidence to do so.

The New Daily

Australia calls out China for cyber espionage

The home affairs minister says the federal government will not hesitate to out the parties behind cyber attacks, amid warnings China is beefing up its offence.

AAP

Australia joins intelligence partners to blame China for US infrastructure cyber attack

Australia has joined the United States and other Five Eyes cyber agencies to identify China as the culprit behind recent cyber attacks targeting "critical infrastructure" in the US.

ABC News

Australian migrant population growth hits all-time high as borders reopen

Australia's migrant population is expected to have grown by more than 700,000 between the 2022 and 2024 financial years.

ABC News

Labor’s instinct is to indulge what it thinks middle Australia wants. It could try simply doing what works

In areas such as migration and jobseeker the government’s rhetoric is timid, when it could boldly go bigger on both

The Guardian - AU

Grattan on Friday: Albanese runs a highly controlled government using gossamer threads

Anthony Albanese’s first year as prime minister will, as it happens, be bookended by meetings of the Quad – the gathering of the leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia.

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Australia lifts minimum wage for skilled migrant workers

Australia will end a decade-old freeze on the minimum wage for skilled migrant workers as part of an overhaul of what the government describes as a broken migration system

ABC News

Student visa rules tightened, skilled worker wage threshold lifted as government begins immigration rewrite

Lifting the minimum pay rate for skilled workers, tightening rules for people seeking to study in Australia, and ending the permanent migration cap are all changes on the table for the federal government, as it seeks to rewrite the rules on immigration.

The New Daily

Temporary migrants to be given wage rise, residency

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil says the wage threshold for temporary migrants will be raised by $16,000 and they will have a path to permanent residency.

Reuters

Australia to overhaul immigration system, smooth entry for skilled workers

Australia proposed on Thursday overhauling its immigration system to speed up getting highly skilled workers into the country and smoothening the path to permanent residency.

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The Guardian - AU

Albanese government to radically streamline migration with three-tiered system for skilled workers

Australian home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, announces reforms designed to cut red tape and reduce delays to permanent residency

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: migration system is ‘broken’, Donald Trump accused of rape, Sydney’s ‘latte line’ deepens

Australia’s 1.8 million guest workers are pushed to stay ‘permanently temporary’, review says

The Guardian - AU

Premier targets healthcare ahead of national cabinet – as it happened

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Australia’s ‘broken’ migration system is failing the nation: Review

A review of Australia's "broken" migration system says it must be overhauled to attract skilled workers to fuel our future or risk falling behind other

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s ‘broken’ migration system leaves 1.8m workers ‘permanently temporary’, review finds

Labor urged to ditch skills lists, allow more workers in caring occupations and tackle long wait times for family visas

ABC News

Review finds Australia's migration system in need of 'major reform'

A review in to Australia's migration system finds that temporary migrant workers are frequently "exploited" with the current system contributing to the risk of that.

The Guardian - AU

New Zealanders to gain faster pathway to Australian citizenship under major changes to immigration rules

In a move that restores reciprocity to rights of expats, about 380,000 New Zealanders living in Australia will no longer have to become permanent residents first

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