This Month
Dutton’s housing fix ‘will worsen supply’
One of Australia’s biggest property developers says slashing permanent migration as a way to fix acute housing shortages will only exacerbate the problem.
- Tom McIlroy, Michael Read and Nick Lenaghan
One in, one out: Dutton plan ‘risks $48b foreign student industry’
Peter Dutton’s promise to reduce temporary migration to 160,000 people would smash the country’s fourth-largest export sector, experts say.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Cybersecurity
This industry needs 5000 new workers every year just to keep up
Australian cybersecurity workers warn the domestic industry is not competitive with foreign rivals.
- Andrew Tillett
‘Horrible on every level’: Universities object to migration changes
Changes to limit the number of foreign students at educational colleges, universities and schools are highly interventionist and prescribe not only where students can study but what they can learn, providers said.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
New laws to cap international student intakes
The federal government has stopped short of imposing a hard cap on international student numbers, but will introduce new limits for each provider.
- Julie Hare
High Court hands Labor rare win on immigration detention
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles welcomed the ruling in the case of the man known as ASF17, who says he would face persecution if he was sent back to Iran.
- Updated
- Tom McIlroy
PM blames DPP, bureaucrats for Perth couple bashing, detainee debacle
The Coalition has accused the government of duck-shoving accountability for its pledge to keep the community safe.
- Phillip Coorey
Foreign students flood appeals tribunal to stay longer
Many student hopefuls who have had their visa application rejected are appealing the decision, often as a means to extend their stay.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
April
Albanese tries to shift blame on alleged attack by freed detainee
Labor is under fresh pressure over its management of immigration detainees set free by the High Court after the alleged bashing of a Perth grandmother.
- Andrew Tillett
Plunge in student numbers to drive migration reset
Government forecasts that net migrant numbers would fall to 375,000 in 2023-24 will be missed by a wide mark, but an ambition to halve the measure by 2024-25 is in reach.
- Julie Hare
International student numbers slump as reforms bite
Only 46,570 students landed in Australia to begin their studies last month.
- Julie Hare
- 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
Boat arrivals taken to Nauru after reaching mainland
A third boat has made it to mainland Australia in five months, adding to pressure on the Albanese government over border protection.
- Andrew Tillett
March
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
Tough visa rules would ban entire countries
Foreigners would be banned from coming to Australia, even as tourists, if their home country refused to accept the return of failed asylum seekers.
- 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
Labor alarm as migration likely to reach historic high
Federal Labor has brought forward elements of its crackdown on international student visa rorts, amid growing anxiety about migration levels into Australia.
- Tom McIlroy and Julie Hare
Fresh wave of immigration detainee releases expected
The Albanese government is bracing for a fresh wave of High Court cases – and rulings – against the powers to hold people in immigration detention indefinitely.
- Andrew Tillett
February
‘Keeps me up at night’: How Australia’s government sees hacker threat
Home affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has warned of a growing threat of cyber sabotage to Australian power, telecommunications, health and water infrastructure.
- Nick Bonyhady
