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Australian immigration and asylum

Latest news affecting Australian immigration and asylum from the Guardian

August 2024

  • A shrine to Mano Yogalingam with his picture in a frame surrounded by flowersThe refugees, from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, many of whom have lived in Australia for more than a decade, are seeking permanent residency visas instead of a life of limbo on temporary bridging visas, which forbid them from, among other things, receiving Medicare benefits and from travelling overseas to visit family. The protestors say there are between 8,000 and 10,000 others in similar circumstances.
Photo by Andrew Quilty / The Guardian

    The asylum seeker who saw no way out of Australia’s ‘cobweb of cruelty’

  • Australian Opposition leader Peter Dutton reacts during Question Time in the House of Representatives

    Australian Politics
    Guardian Essential report: is calling Peter Dutton ‘divisive’ playing into his political strategy? – Australian politics podcast

  • Peter Lewis

    Peter Dutton’s opponents cast him as a divisive figure. What if they tried the Tim Walz approach instead?

    Peter Lewis
  • Peter Dutton

    Peter Dutton dismisses Labor’s ‘divisive’ tag as a smokescreen to divert attention from economy

  • More Australians agree with Dutton’s visa pause for Gazans than oppose it, Guardian Essential poll shows

  • The rural network, Victoria
    Growing Australia: how a refugee from Iran helped expand the pistachio industry

  • Government gives itself power to pay any non-citizen to leave Australia

  • The opposition says Australia’s approach to refugees from Gaza is too generous. Who is actually being let in?

  • Australia news live
    Reef faces climate-fuelled ‘deterioration’, report says – as it happened

  • Labor extends work and Medicare rights to some visa-holders from Gaza and Israel

  • 'He chose division once again': Albanese responds to Dutton's Palestinian visa questions – video

  • Abul Rizvi accuses Coalition of misusing his words on Gaza visas and calls national security claims ‘rubbish’

  • Full Story
    Why Dutton wants to close the door to Gazan refugees – Full Story podcast

  • Peter Dutton tells Coalition party room he only wants temporary pause on Gaza visas as part of ‘principled stance’

  • Anthony Albanese warns against stereotyping while defending Palestinian visas – video

  • Journalist Masha Gessen granted Australian visa after delays due to Russian charges

  • Labor calls Peter Dutton a ‘sook’ in parliament for his continued attacks on Gaza visa process

  • Labor MP warns Coalition position risking return to days of White Australia policy — video

  • Tony Burke calls Peter Dutton a 'sook' after motion attacking PM over Palestinian refugees – video

  • I fled Gaza to Australia not by choice but as a matter of survival. How can I be a security risk?

    Plestia Alaqad
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