In the second of a three-part series, Geoff Maslen looks at immigration law and the stampede for visas by foreign students. What happens now to students who thought that would qualify for residency?
Immigration Department
Detention debt destroyed
After much debate, including a Crikey analysis of which Coalition members supported the bill, the charging of immigration detainees and asylum seekers for their mandatory detention has been scrapped.
Evans to announce immigration overhaul
Immigration policy is to be overhauled, with Immigration Minister Chris Evans calling for sophisticated public debate on immigration and for the public to stop focusing on the hysteria of immigrants as potential terrorists.
Positive reform for asylum seekers
“Migration reform” is often the wording used for changes in the Immigration portfolio, not always positive. But, writes Kerry Murphy, four changes made by Minister Evans are good news for asylum seekers.
Putting the Ruddock back into shadow immigration?
An email exchange about former Philip Ruddock chief of staff Ann Duffield, who is now working for Shadow Immigration minister Sharman Stone, makes for revealing reading.
Tips and rumours: The real boat people story?
A Crikey tipster lets in on the “real story” behind the Ashmore reef explosion, while another reckons the Immigration Department is broke.
Australia’s $18m bid to keep asylum seekers in Indonesia
The sound bites may have shifted, but the policy around interception of asylum seekers in Indonesia never changed.
Prison cost-cutter set to run migrant detention
An international services company that has attracted extensive criticism of its human rights record is likely to be awarded the new contract to operate immigration detention centres by the Rudd Government, writes Bernard Keane.
Tips and rumours
Everything that has been written about the Immigration Department in your “Tips and rumours” lately is true. There has been a lot of fear in the department - there is an extremely punitive attitude, despite comments to the contrary by the Secretary. That fear has included letting outsiders know the true extent of the debacle […]
Give overseas trained doctors a break
Working in remote areas without adequate support can be difficult for even the best trained and most experienced of doctors, writes Cloncurry GP Sheilagh Cronin.
Bringing back memories of our son’s deportation
Dr Haneef’s deportation has brought back memories of my son for whom we could not do anything, write Inderjit and Margaret.
As you sit in your traffic jam, Immigration Dept plays numbers down
From Brisbane to Perth and all major centres in between, Australian cities are groaning under inadequate infrastructure, choked roads, unaffordable housing, failing public transport.
