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Refugee support services get budget boost

An immigration detention centre in Western Australia will have its security but not facilities improved, and the Australian Border Force gets $100m.

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Relatives ‘surprised and shocked’ after 68-year-old Gaza woman’s Australian visa cancelled on security grounds

Palestinian Australian advocates call for transparency after visa of Fatma Almassri, a diabetic living in Rafah, cancelled without warning

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Millions allegedly misspent or wasted in Australia’s offshore detention system, senior Home Affairs official tells tribunal

Workers’ compensation case hears claims $6m in funds were misused on items including golf umbrellas in dispute with PNG contractor

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Thousands of extremists posts removed from social media

The Department of Home Affairs issued more than 3000 notices to social media companies requesting violent or extremist posts be removed in just six months.

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Coalition plan to privatise visa processing to be subject of new inquiry

Announcement comes after revelation Infosys had 46 meetings with lobbyist Scott Briggs to discuss bid for IT work

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton demands immigration minister Andrew Giles resign as another person released from detention

Opposition leader’s call follows latest court order to free Iranian asylum seeker who had been detained since 2013

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The High Court has decided indefinite detention is unlawful. What happens now?

This week, the High Court of Australia ordered the release of a Rohingya man from immigration detention where he had been for the last five and a half years.

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Home Affairs boss sidelined over leaked Liberal texts

A probe into text messages showing Home Affairs chief Mike Pezzullo seeking to influence the Liberal Party has led to him stepping aside.

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Home affairs tried to water down report critical of ‘extraordinary’ counter-terror powers, documents reveal

Department engaged researchers to review its preventative detention of terrorists, only to attempt to remove their most serious criticisms

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Peter Dutton briefed on bribery investigation before his government signed contract with target

Anthony Albanese says opposition leader has ‘responsibility to explain what occurred on his watch’

The Guardian - AU

Morrison government struck secret deal to pay PNG to take refugees and asylum seekers

Exclusive: Australian government is refusing to say how much it is giving Papua New Guinea under the agreement

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A group of women and children living in a camp in Syria wants the federal government to bring them home

A group of 26 Australians living in a camp in Syria have launched legal action against the Department of Home Affairs. Lawyers for the women and children say they were tricked into going to the conflict zone.

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Meatworkers losing their life savings in last-ditch bids for Australian work visas

If you're a migrant wanting to stay in Australia, you might hear about "Tia". She operates in messaging apps and few have met her in person, though many have handed over tens of thousands of dollars in the hope of getting an Australian visa.

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Home Affairs officials grilled over employment of man under investigation for child sex offences

Yesterday, Stephen Mitchell was sentenced to more than 13 years in jail for a raft of child sex offences, which police had been investigating prior to his employment with the Department of Home Affairs.

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Australian resident 'alone' with breast cancer wins reprieve as Department of Home Affairs grants husband's visa

An Australian resident grappling with stage four cancer alone will finally be reunited with her husband after visa issues kept them apart for 15 months.

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Saeed made it out of Kabul alive but thousands of Afghans are still waiting for refugee visas

Australians are begging the government to rescue their relatives from the Taliban as the processing of refugee applications grinds to a halt for thousands of at-risk Afghan asylum seekers.

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‘Putting their lives on hold’: Australian families kept apart as wait times for partner visas blow out

New figures from the home affairs department show some people are waiting years for temporary visas to be processed

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Asylum seekers chasing budget boost and work rights

A new report recommends that asylum seekers on bridging visas must be allowed to work and for the government to allocate $300 million to fund costs of living.

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Sydney man Mohamed Barghachoun avoids deportation after migration visa saga

Earlier this year, Sydney man Mohamed Barghachoun was on the brink of being deported back to Lebanon, leaving his wife and three children behind, after his visa was cancelled by the Department of Home Affairs.

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Explainer: High Court ruling in immigration case could impact hundreds of visa decisions since 2016

This week, the High Court of Australia handed down a significant ruling in an immigration case that could affect hundreds of similar visa cases handled by the Department of Home Affairs.

The Guardian - AU

Coalition warned of problems with tool to predict future terrorist crime but continued to use it on offenders

Exclusive: Morrison government used risk assessment tool known as VERA-2R on 14 occasions after receiving independent report

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We provided health care for children in immigration detention. This is what we found

Australia’s immigration policies allow for indefinite locked detention, including for children and families. Detention is mandatory for people arriving without a valid visa – all those who arrived by boat between 2009 and 2013 were held in Immigration Detention Centres in Australia, or in Australian-contracted detention in Nauru or Papua…

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‘I need my freedom’: Mohammed Al-Bdairi should be at the birth of his child – but he remains in detention

The Iraqi refugee’s visa was cancelled in 2019 but the Administrative Appeals Tribunal overturned the ruling in December

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Morrison ally secretly set up to oversee home affairs

Assistant minister Ben Morton was sworn in to administer the Department of Home Affairs in 2021 without the appointment being publicly disclosed.

AAP

Ex-Morrison minister stunned by second portfolio post

Former home affairs minister Karen Andrews says she was kept in the dark about another minister being sworn in to administer her department.

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