This Month
Mass lay-offs at regional uni as international enrolments slump 90pc
Federation University in Victoria could be the canary in the coal mine as its international student enrolments dive.
- Julie Hare
Ryanair CEO would ‘happily’ offer flights deporting people to Rwanda
Michael O’Leary shrugged off warnings from the United Nations, which said airlines facilitating the removals could be complicit in violating international law.
- Kate Duffy and Charlotte Ryan
UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda in ‘game-changer’ law
The law finally passed parliament after weeks of delay, and Rishi Sunak hopes the move will lift his waning popularity before the national elections.
- Updated
- Sarah Young, Elizabeth Piper and Alistair Smout
Labor ‘determined’ to halve record post pandemic immigration
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said multiculturalism needs to be carefully nurtured.
- Tom McIlroy
International student numbers slump as reforms bite
Only 46,570 students landed in Australia to begin their studies last month.
- Julie Hare
- Analysis
- Inflation
Why the war on US inflation is far from over
Rent hikes are playing an increasingly large role in American price rises. That’s a political headache that President Biden does not need heading to the election.
- Matthew Cranston
- Exclusive
- International students
Plan to slug international students with big increase in visa fees
Sensitive about high migration numbers, the Albanese government is set to massively increase fees for student visa applications.
- Julie Hare
Trump’s Fed chairman option opposes rate cuts this year
Kevin Hassett is a frontrunner to become Federal Reserve chairman if Donald Trump is elected. He says inflation remains sticky and isn’t being measured properly.
- Matthew Cranston
‘A mishmash’: backpackers not equal under visa rules
Different regulations can apply to countries even from the same continent when it comes to language requirements.
- Julie Hare
Treasurer must act on PwC
Readers’ letters on the PwC scandal and trust in the accounting profession; the rights of deportees; the manufacturing of solar panels in Australia; and the art of writing letters.
- Opinion
- Global economy
Population decline will destroy the West as we know it
By 2100, the number of people worldwide will have peaked. The value of assets will drop and the incomes they generate will fall.
- Dr Stephen Davies
Visa rejections hit record as overseas students top 700,000
There were 713,000 international students living in Australia in February, but a corner has been turned as visa rejections pile up.
- Julie Hare
Trump’s immigration rhetoric makes inroads with some Democrats
The Republican candidate has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric, and it appears to be resonating with some of the voters Joe Biden will need to win over.
- Will Weissert and Jill Colvin
- Analysis
- Refugees
Immigration politically toxic, but it’s helping drive US growth
Immigration has been good for the US economy, just as an out-of-control border becomes the No.1 issue for voters in some states and No.2 in swing states.
- Matthew Cranston
March
How migrants are changing the face of Australian politics
Aspirational migrants and their families will be the fastest growing demographic chunk of suburban Australia for at least the next two decades.
- John Black
Fears ‘disturbing’ bill will keep families apart
Migrants from Zimbabwe, Iran and other countries affected by Labor’s immigration bill have hit out at changes they say are a backward step for Australian multiculturalism.
- Gus McCubbing and Samantha Hutchinson
- Opinion
- Scott Morrison
It’s the Malaysia Plan all over again
One can only imagine the reaction if Labor was in opposition and had done the same thing.
- Phillip Coorey
Coalition, Greens, Hanson sink Labor’s emergency deportation bill
The Coalition would now “own it” if more failed asylum seekers were ordered out of detention by the High Court, the government said.
- Andrew Tillett
- Analysis
- Border security
Legislate rather than litigate: why Labor is feeling heat on detainees
Successive governments have felt they need to rush migration laws into parliament to stay ahead of people smugglers and the courts.
- Andrew Tillett
Migration record after huge student intake
The country’s annual population growth of 2.5 per cent was the highest rate since 1952, keeping pressure on housing demand and infrastructure.
- Julie Hare and Tom McIlroy