Fifty years since the sky fell: how the Vietnam war changed Australia
On the anniversary of Liberation Day, members of Australia’s Vietnamese community look back at the sacrifices made in pursuit of ‘a good life’ “It’s like...
Category : Australian immigration and asylum
Australia to strike new funding deal with Papua New Guinea to manage transferred asylum seekers
Exclusive: Government regulations reveal Australia will provide ‘further capability support and funding’ to PNG but dollar figure is confidential Follow our Australia news live blog...
Number of asylum seekers on Nauru jumps as Australia transfers 37 people who arrived by boat
Deterrence policy against asylum seeker boats is under strain, with three vessels arriving in a week in May Get our morning and afternoon news emails,...
Rwandans arrive in Australia after perilous journey to claim asylum
Hunters reportedly find five Rwandan men in mangroves on Saibai Island, a known crocodile habitat As the UK government continues its push to forcibly remove...
Australia paid companies linked to suspected drug and weapons smuggling to run offshore detention, review finds
Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says scathing report shows offshore processing ‘used as a slush fund by suspected criminals’ Follow our Australia news live blog...
Child among asylum seekers returned to country of origin after being sent from Australia to Nauru
Home affairs department confirms eight of the 11 people flown to island nation in September have since returned home Follow our Australia news live blog...
PNG threatens to send refugees back to Australia unless it keeps funding humanitarian program
Exclusive: Papua New Guinea official accuses Australia of abandoning 70 men but government maintains it has no responsibility for them Get our morning and afternoon...
‘They were tiny’: the Indonesians still fighting their conviction as adults in Australia
Anto and Samsul Bahar were 15 when they were jailed in a maximum security facility in Western Australia Indonesian boys, Australian jails: read the full...
