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Crowdstrike tells Australian government it is ‘close to rolling out automatic fix’ after global outage

Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says systems should soon be back online but business groups say companies may need days to recover

The Guardian - AU

Bad actors seizing on Microsoft IT outage to scam public, Clare O’Neil warns

Home affairs minister says small businesses should be cautious of emails from people posing as CrowdStrike or Microsoft

The Guardian - AU

Guardian Essential poll: three-quarters of Australians believe MPs enter politics to serve own interests

Survey shows deep dissatisfaction with state of democracy as Clare O’Neil warns against ‘virus’ of populism taking hold across world

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Refugee torture survivors still fear repression

A Chilean political refugee who was tortured by the Pinochet regime and a Bangladeshi dissident say governments harassing diasporas in Australia is common.

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Andrew Giles released murderer into community detention before NZYQ high court ruling, documents show

Attempted murderer also among the 25 people released before judgment that indefinite immigration detention was unlawful

The Guardian - AU

Police probe whether toxic web 'radicalised' stab teen

A teen accused of stabbing a student at the University of Sydney is yet to be charged, as police question whether he was radicalised by toxic online content.

AAP

Australia to strike new funding deal with Papua New Guinea to manage transferred asylum seekers

Exclusive: Government regulations reveal Australia will provide ‘further capability support and funding’ to PNG but dollar figure is confidential

The Guardian - AU

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Sydney university stabbing: teenage boy who allegedly attacked student was arrested last year, minister says

Yasmin Catley says 14-year-old had been through government program run by NSW’s department of community and justice

The Guardian - AU

Murderer and attempted murderer among 25 detainees released by ministerial discretion, documents reveal

Exclusive: Legal challenge discloses number of non-citizens already released by ministerial discretion higher than first thought

The Guardian - AU

Ticketek customer details exposed in cybersecurity breach

Clare O’Neil says incident affecting many Australians but appears restricted to the release of names, dates of birth and email addresses

The Guardian - AU

Albanese government gives new Ministerial Direction on visa appeals to make ‘community safety’ paramount

The Albanese government is giving a new “Ministerial Direction” to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal on visa cases, telling it to make community safety paramount in considering appeals from non-citizens with serious criminal records.

The Conversation

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

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

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.

The Guardian - AU

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’

The Guardian - AU

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

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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

AAP

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.

The Guardian - AU

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’

The Guardian - AU

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

AAP

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.

The Guardian - AU

Senator quits party to sit as independent – as it happened

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