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A dying Afghan refugee held on Nauru will not be allowed to come to Australia for palliative care. The Australian Border Force has told 63-year-old Ali*, who is suffering advanced lung cancer, he is deemed to have “refused treatment”…

Sarvenaz, a refugee on a five-year protection visa, lost her special benefits payment on orientation day for her first semester at university. “They actually didn’t tell me, they just cut it off without explanation,” Sarvenaz says. “I went…

Sydney-based Aarti Dewan on Sunday tweeted to Ms Swaraj that she had lost her mother and needed a bridging visa to travel to India. She tweeted (sic), “@SushmaSwaraj my mother has expired and I need to travel to India immediately, I…

Every political pundit regurgitates the old Clinton slogan that elections are always about the economy, encapsulated by the slogan "it's the economy, stupid". If only it were so simple. There's no doubt that if the economy is…

Australia as a wealthy country can afford to take more refugees, but it cannot afford “the ongoing cost to our national psyche” of subjecting asylum seekers to “shameful” indefinite detention in offshore immigration centres, Labor’s Ged…

“This school wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for them,” said Kelvin Matthews, 36, the bowler, as he watched the children interact.────Towns of a few hundred people are fading like puddles in the sun.────Filipinos now make up nearly a quarter…

Malaysia may revoke the death sentence on fugitive policeman Sirul Azhar Umar, who was convicted in the 2006 murder of a Mongolian model, to facilitate his extradition from Australia, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday.…

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 Visa Cancellations are becoming more common than a Rugs a Million sale.  Well, maybe that is a little dramatic, but you get the idea!  Instead of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (‘DIBP’) concentrating their time on visa…

The union had demanded retrospective wage increases in order to take into account the years without a pay rise due to the stalled negotiations. However the commission hit out at the union's bargaining approach, saying "we see no…