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immigration November 15, 2025
Life as a Home Affairs whistleblower: ‘I’m just falling over’
Four years ago, Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias attempted to report corruption in offshore contracts – the department’s response has left him mentally unwell and in financial turmoil.
immigration October 11, 2025
‘Safety net’ cuts pushing asylum seekers into homelessness
Steep funding cuts to the government’s ‘safety net’ are pushing asylum seekers awaiting resolution of their immigration status into poverty and homelessness.
immigration October 4, 2025
Everything that’s wrong with this immigration debate
As anti-immigration sentiment is politicised around the world, new arrivals to Australia are being portrayed as detrimental to the economy – when in fact the opposite is true.
immigration September 20, 2025
How Indian Australians are being politicised
The notion of the Indian diaspora as a voting bloc for Labor needs closer examination, as people in migrant communities say the Coalition has worked hard to lose their support.
immigration September 20, 2025
‘It’s visceral’: Albanese’s fear of anti-immigration rhetoric
As Pauline Hanson tells The Saturday Paper her One Nation party is ‘not going to be a bridesmaid anymore’, Labor insiders reveal the prime minister’s approach to dealing with racial anxieties.
immigration September 13, 2025
‘I despair for this party’: Inside Jacinta Price’s sacking
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has stood firm against another far-right attack on her leadership, but it has exposed a struggle between the Liberal Party’s powerbrokers.
immigration September 6, 2025
In the March for Australia melee
The view from the crowd at the weekend protests revealed the progress extremists have made in harnessing anti-immigration sentiment.
immigration September 6, 2025
The NZYQ Nauru deportation deal
ANALYSIS: In its $2.5 billion deal to deport at least 280 people released from indefinite detention, the government shows its willingness to circumvent both the Constitution and human rights law.
immigration August 16, 2025
Elijah Buol to lead Asylum Seekers Centre
Sydney’s Asylum Seekers Centre has been helping refugees for 32 years. Now its running will be entrusted to a man who truly understands what it means to walk through its doors.
immigration August 2, 2025
The slow response to indefinite detention
The latest Commonwealth Ombudsman’s report into long-term detention took nearly nine months to be tabled in parliament, indicative of the cruel pace at which time moves for asylum seekers.
immigration July 26, 2025
International IT graduates struggle to secure Australian employment
Australia has little trouble attracting international IT students, but employment is proving difficult for graduates, despite the need to fill a quarter of a million jobs in the next five years.
