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Border security under fire after men detained in Qld

A group of men have been detained after trying to enter Australia, sparking calls for better border security in the Torres Strait by the local mayor.

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Australia’s immigration minister successfully suppresses details about electronic monitoring of former detainees

Exclusive: Andrew Giles argued that court evidence about how ankle monitors work could help freed detainees breach visa conditions

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Clare O’Neil contradicts Anthony Albanese’s claim community protection board is ‘independent’

Home affairs minister clarifies that panel created to manage release of people from indefinite immigration detention is ‘not a separate structure from government’

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The Coalition says it can improve Labor’s deportation bill – but might Dutton blow it up instead?

The Greens are out to kill legislation they hate while the opposition is yet to finalise its position – it could be a budget week blockbuster

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PM slams prosecutors amid fallout over ex-detainee bail

Anthony Albanese has distanced himself from a decision to oppose bail for a released detainee before an alleged assault, saying it "lacks common sense".

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Perth woman allegedly assaulted by freed detainee confronts minister over removal of man’s ankle bracelet

Ninette Simons, 73, tells immigration minister Andrew Giles she and 76-year-old husband Phillip feel they have been let down

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Operation Zufolo: Australia deployed a ‘charade’ to sustain indefinite immigration detention – it failed

Exclusive: The federal government set out to show it was trying to deport non-citizens, knowing there was a risk a key high court ruling could be overturned. But an insider says it was purely symbolic

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Road not taken: the moment Andrew Giles passed on chance to shut down detention court case

FoI documents show immigration minister refused to grant a visa or release NZYQ into community detention before Five Eyes allies rejected request for deportation

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Bondi Junction stabbing: French man who confronted attacker with bollard to receive permanent residency

Damien Guerot praised for ‘extraordinary bravery’ after CCTV footage showed him confronting Joel Cauchi

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Minister was warned of ‘increased’ legal risks of immigration detention in 2022

Documents released under freedom of information reveal home affairs department advised it needed to show ‘concrete’ steps to deport some non-citizens

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Deportation bill breaches Labor’s national platform, ALP pro-refugee group says

‘Social panics with strong racist goals can create political imperatives,’ submission to Senate inquiry warns

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Andrew Giles faces years of litigation as he fights to prevent another disastrous defeat on immigration

The immigration minister has a reputation as the most sued person in Australia. This year the legal terrain got even rockier

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Senator quits party to sit as independent – as it happened

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Questions over urgency to grant new deportation powers

Laws that Labor is trying to ram through the parliament to give the immigration minister stronger powers to deport detainees have been sent to an inquiry.

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Rushed bill forcing hundreds of non-citizens to facilitate own deportation passes lower house

Human Rights Law Centre says bill ‘deliberately separates families’ and risks non-compliance with obligations under refugee convention

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More than 170 immigration detainees could be freed if Australian government loses high court challenge

Exclusive: Number of detainees who refuse to cooperate with deportation is larger than thought, leaked internal estimate reveals

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Calls for more transparency on immigration detainees

Labor is under increasing pressure as a further 150 asylum seekers could be released from immigration detention if a High Court challenge is successful.

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Question time interrupted by Gaza protesters – as it happened

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Charges dropped after visa bungle over freed detainees

Former immigration detainees who breached visa conditions after being released into the community could escape conviction due to a technical issue.

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Libs eye slash to immigration, foreign student intake

The opposition is working on a policy to cut Australia's migration intake, with immigration spokesman Dan Tehan saying 1.5 million over four years is too high.

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Assault charges to be dropped against man released from indefinite detention hours after Dutton question time attack

Police say CCTV footage indicates another man, not the 44-year-old former detainee, involved in alleged sexual assault in Melbourne

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Refugee charged with breaching curfew launches high court challenge to released detainees’ visa conditions

Lawyers for plaintiff YBFZ ask the court to expedite the case for a full hearing as early as March or April

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Immigration minister released friend of Bob Hawke from detention on visa that did not include ankle bracelet or curfew

Safwat Abdel-Hady released from Villawood detention centre by Andrew Giles on a bridging visa E

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Albanese’s asylum policy is almost identical to the Coalition’s – Dutton’s attacks are manifesting a crisis

The opposition leader seems more than happy to will Operation Sovereign Borders to failure if it gets him closer to the Lodge

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When it comes to failure of responsibility, there are far greater examples than Barnaby Joyce’s pavement incident

While the footpath fiasco took all the attention, it turns out suspected gun runners and drug traffickers were running offshore detention

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