For the past six months, Laurel Green has been in the United States, separated from her newlywed husband and friends in Perth amid a protracted immigration process.
Dylan Caporn
The question of who foots the bill to lock up the most dangerous criminals freed after last year’s High Court ruling is yet to be decided.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Five people have died trying to cross the English Channel from France hours after Britain's upper house of parliament passed tough new asylum seeker laws.
Yves Herman
The Government’s Ombudsman has warned that the threat of jail to immigration detainees who don’t cooperate may not bean effective deterrent.
Katina Curtis and Dan Jervis-Bardy
Australia faces clear and significant challenges when it comes to our immigration system. Recent court decisions and attempts to pass new laws through Parliament have highlighted a range of issues.
Lorraine Finlay
A Sudanese-born man who failed to charge his monitoring device faces more than five years in jail after failing to charge his monitoring device.
Melissa Meehan
An Iranian man whose High Court challenge could trigger the release of more immigration detainees is arguing war-torn Gaza could be a safer deportation destination than his home country.
Government authorities have tried to deport a bisexual man to Iran every six months since 2018 but they failed because he resisted, as he feared for his life.
Kat Wong and Farid Farid
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles is playing down concerns about the Federal Government’s controversial deportation legislation amid a backlash from Labor Party members and migrant groups.
The Italian coastguard says nine people have died after a boat sank off the island of Lampedusa.
Staff Writers
Constitutional law expert George Williams thinks the Federal Government will win the High Court case about people who refuse to cooperate with their deportation.
Kimberley Caines
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has downplayed a committee report where three Labor senators were among other MPs to raise the alarm on the Federal Government’s rushed deportation legislation.
In 15 days, expect all hell to break loose if the Albanese Government loses a High Court challenge that could see the release of about 170 non-citizens from immigration detention.
Mexican authorities say a boat carrying Chinese migrants capsized off the country's coast, killing eight people.
The Federal Government is arguing that people staying in immigration detention is not punishment as the Prime Minister defended Labor’s attempt to rush a deportation bill through Parliament.
Efforts to strengthen rules to deport non-citizens have descended into an ugly political debate that will be delayed until after the next High Court challenge on immigration detention.
Emergency immigration laws rushed through Parliament in a matter of hours with little scrutiny amid accusations of handing the minister draconian powers.
Katina Curtis
The Federal Government is under fire for being unable to say how many foreign criminals with cancelled visas are locked up in Australian jails.
The Immigration Minister could be given powers to bar new visa applications from non-citizens of countries that refuse to accept removals from Australia and to ban visa applications from ‘designated’ countries.
Kimberley Caines and Katina Curtis
Three foreign criminals released from immigration detention in WA are expected to have their charges dropped for allegedly breaching their visa conditions due to Labor being forced to reissue new documents.
The Albanese Government has been on the back foot ever since the High Court ruled it unlawful to keep foreign criminals locked up in immigration detention indefinitely.
The Opposition has slammed the Albanese Government’s immigration detention policy, saying it is getting out of control as Labor is urged to act to re-detain the worst released offenders.
Four months after the immigration detainee debacle saw dozens of violent criminals freed, the Government has admitted it is still scrambling to fix the issue as another wave of offenders fights for release.
An official says a rubber dinghy carrying migrants has sunk off Turkey's northern Aegean coast, leaving at least 16 people dead
Tuvan Gumrukcu