DARK SECRETS: 7 - The Real Truth

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.

AAP · May 16, 2024

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.

AAP · May 14, 2024

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.

AAP · May 8, 2024

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 · Apr 11, 2024

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 · Apr 7, 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 29, 2024

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.

AAP · Mar 28, 2024

Senator quits party to sit as independent – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Mar 27, 2024

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

The Guardian - AU · Mar 20, 2024

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.

AAP · Mar 20, 2024