Tag: Immigration policy in Australia

Sustainable-population advocacy group says country’s politicians must stand up to the self-interested ‘Big-Australia’ lobby.

Rights groups welcome the decision to temporarily release the Murugappan family from detention on Christmas Island so they can reunite in WA.

Rita Ora’s hotel quarantine ahead of her involvement in The Voice is unfair to the nearly 40,000 Aussies still stranded overseas, says Labor.

International travel uncertainties mean some visa program applicants will no longer need to leave Australia to complete their process.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: It’s critical that the Australian government take a new direction in refugee policy and move beyond its tired and false rhetoric of deterrence as a justification for detaining refugees on Nauru and Manus.

Visa changes implemented this month affect all those wanting to migrate to Australia.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Tough English language tests will be used to decide Australian citizenship. Does this new policy look and feel like Australia’s old White Australia Policy?

International icon, Johnny Depp, found his pet dogs' lives under threat by Australian Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, after he brought them into the country during the filming of the latest installment of Pirates of the Caribbean saga. Australian five-time motorcycle racing world champion, Mick Doohan, in whose mansion Depp is ...

In his latest video rant, Russell Brand lines up Tony Abbott and Rupert Murdoch for a verbal lashing.

Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection research seeks to better define the country's migration objectives.

The development of Australia's population and society relies heavily on migration, as statistic show.

The Australians Greens have called on the federal government to lift gag orders on staff at Manus Island detention centre.

The federal opposition is critical over reports that Iran has summoned the Australian envoy to complain about the death of an Iranian asylum seeker in PNG.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is in talks with the federal government to get more immigrants and refugees to settle in regional areas.