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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

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Prescriptions company MediSecure hacked in major breach

Electronic prescriptions provider MediSecure has been the target of a large-scale data hack, with an unknown number of people affected by the breach.

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Refugee support services get budget boost

An immigration detention centre in Western Australia will have its security but not facilities improved, and the Australian Border Force gets $100m.

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Save up: students to need more for an Australian visa

International students will need to show proof of a minimum of nearly $30,000 in savings if they want to be granted an Australian student visa.

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Clare O’Neil contradicts Anthony Albanese’s claim community protection board is ‘independent’

Home affairs minister clarifies that panel created to manage release of people from indefinite immigration detention is ‘not a separate structure from government’

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Operation Zufolo: Australia deployed a ‘charade’ to sustain indefinite immigration detention – it failed

Exclusive: The federal government set out to show it was trying to deport non-citizens, knowing there was a risk a key high court ruling could be overturned. But an insider says it was purely symbolic

The Guardian - AU

Road not taken: the moment Andrew Giles passed on chance to shut down detention court case

FoI documents show immigration minister refused to grant a visa or release NZYQ into community detention before Five Eyes allies rejected request for deportation

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Tests for skilled migrants set for overhaul

A review of the points test for migrants in Australia will be carried out as part of immigration system changes.

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Minister was warned of ‘increased’ legal risks of immigration detention in 2022

Documents released under freedom of information reveal home affairs department advised it needed to show ‘concrete’ steps to deport some non-citizens

The Guardian - AU

Police find missing member of group who reached remote Western Australia coast by boat

Search was conducted in difficult terrain near Mitchell Plateau as Coalition presses government over ‘third boat since November’

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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

Labor pushed to explain rush on new deportation powers

A push to coerce people who refuse to co-operate with their deportation from Australia has been stalled as politicians ask why Labor is trying to rush new laws.

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Senator quits party to sit as independent – as it happened

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Clare O’Neil claims she relied on verbal briefings only for prediction of high court immigration detention win

Home affairs refuses access to FOI request for ‘operational advice’ regarding case that overturned legality of indefinite detention

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Students, temporary workers send migration soaring

Australia's population is booming with the arrival of 548,000 migrants in one year, many of them international students and temporary workers.

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Libs eye slash to immigration, foreign student intake

The opposition is working on a policy to cut Australia's migration intake, with immigration spokesman Dan Tehan saying 1.5 million over four years is too high.

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Peter Dutton doubles down on immigration attacks despite Victoria police clearing detainee of assault charges

Deputy leader Sussan Ley refuses to delete tweet claiming ‘Victorian women being assaulted by foreign criminals’

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Clare O’Neil accuses Peter Dutton of telling ‘easily disprovable lies’ over border force funding

Home affairs minister says Operation Sovereign Borders ‘funding has increased by $470m’, after opposition leader on Monday claimed it had decreased $600m

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'Irresponsible' comments encourage people smuggling: PM

The prime minister has again gone on the offensive after Peter Dutton's latest attack on Labor's record on border security, accusing him of "making things up".

The Guardian - AU

When it comes to failure of responsibility, there are far greater examples than Barnaby Joyce’s pavement incident

While the footpath fiasco took all the attention, it turns out suspected gun runners and drug traffickers were running offshore detention

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More than 20 people arrive by boat in remote part of Western Australia

Australian Border Force confirms operation as Peter Dutton claims Labor has ‘lost control of our borders’

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Hundreds more immigration detainees could be released in sequel to NZYQ high court ruling

Attorney general applies to have case heard by high court to end legal uncertainty on detainees who refuse to cooperate on deportation

The Guardian - AU

Seven of the immigration detainees released in Australia were convicted of murder or attempted murder

Home affairs department also reveals 24 former detainees have been charged with visa rule breaches or state offences since their release

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Australia paid companies linked to suspected drug and weapons smuggling to run offshore detention, review finds

Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says review shows offshore processing ‘used as a slush fund by suspected criminals’

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Criminal charges unlikely over dodgy offshore contracts

Companies suspected of bribery, money laundering and drug smuggling were given lucrative contracts tied to Australia's offshore immigration detention regime.

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