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Australian immigration and asylum

Latest news affecting Australian immigration and asylum from the Guardian

October 2024

  • Israelis hold red balloons as they attend the first birthday celebration for Kfir Bibas, the youngest hostage to be kidnapped by Hamas militants

    A year of horror, vile political point-scoring and the oldest hatred hitting home. And yet I still hope

    Mark Dreyfus
    I’ve been asked why I’ve stayed silent about the Israel-Gaza war. Just because I’m not talking doesn’t mean I don’t understand
  • James Paterson in Senate estimates

    Visas for Palestinians take median time of four months to process, despite Coalition claims

    Exclusive: Guardian Australia found Coalition politicians cited the 24-hour figure in interviews on at least 12 occasions in August
    • Australia news live
      Wong confirms up to 500 Australians and close relatives to board repatriation flights from Beirut – as it happened

    • Australia news live
      Gold Coast high school students hospitalised after eating mushroom gummies – as it happened

    • Australia news live
      Assange says he is free because he ‘pled guilty to journalism’ – as it happened

September 2024

  • The family

    Sukhdeep wants to see her mother while she is still alive – but Australia’s visa rules have left her in limbo

  • Hassan Elhassan

    ‘It grows this anger within people’: how Australia treats those fleeing humanitarian disaster depends on where they came from – and when

  • Greens Senator David Shoebridge

    ‘Sneaky move’: Labor accused of trying to quietly curtail appeals from people seeking asylum

  • Opposition Leader Peter Dutton during question time in the house of representatives chamber of Parliament House in Canberra. Thursday 12th September 2024. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia

    Dutton suggests apology for calling Lebanese-Muslim migration a ‘mistake’ made to ‘senior person’ in community

  • Ex-Manus Island detainees stranded in PNG threatened with eviction over unpaid rent

  • Universities say they are being treated like ‘political footballs’ in scathing critique of Labor’s student cap

  • The Guardian Essential report
    Australia could be a smart nation that values education – instead it is riding the latest wave of dumb luck

    Peter Lewis
  • The Guardian Essential report
    Guardian Essential poll: more voters blaming Albanese government for interest rate rises

  • Revealed: 15 Australian universities to have their international student cap slashed

  • Migration remains a hot-button issue. But Australia should be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater

    Nicki Hutley
  • Andrew Giles approved rule change that raised risk serious criminals might keep visas

  • Australia news live
    Former ABC host Tim Bowden dies aged 87 – as it happened

  • Asio chief says person who likes tweet supporting 7 October attacks on Israel could fail visa security test

  • Rise in Palestinian applications for onshore protection visas as pressure grows on Albanese government

  • Mani once sang of freedom in Afghanistan. Now, silenced, she’s desperate to escape. Will Australia help?

    Shadi Khan Saif
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