With the Gillard government being consistently outgunned and just plain monstered in public debate, it has more cause than ever to regret the departure of former finance minister Lindsay Tanner.
A recent TIME magazine cover story — and this accompanying video — by Pulitzer prize winning immigrant author Jose Antonio Vargas examined life as an undocumented American. Since the TIME article’s release, the Obama administration announced it would no longer deport young undocumented immigrants who qualify for the DREAM Act (ie: if they graduate from high school in America, worked in […]
A new BCA report on poor productivity in Australia appears to be aimed at increasing the use of immigrant labour. It is, as John Cleese might say, "wafer thin".
Bringing in foreign workers for mining industry jobs makes sense - because it doesn't make sense for most of us to relocate to mining towns.
What should have been a brief exchange of pleasantries turned into a diplomatic disaster when Julie Bishop outlined the opposition’s policy on "sending back" asylum seeker boats to Indonesia.
In terms of Australia's actual needs, the emphasis on skilled migration is misguided. Australia is a First World country; in the long run if we have labour shortages they will be mostly for the unskilled.
A 10-year-old Vietnamese girl, who has spent a year living in detention centres across the country as an unaccompanied minor, calls her life in a detention centre in Darwin "very sad, depressing and hopeless", in a note passed to a community visitor this week.
Ten Chinese nationals are currently based on a ferry docked in Darwin after sending a distress signal for Australian Customs officials to collect them after running out of food en route to New Zealand, where they plan to seek asylum.
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will demand that Immigration Minister Chris Bowen release up-to-date versions of Serco asylum seeker training manuals, including controversial sections on the use of force.
Ireland is broke and depressed. Two percent of the population has left since 2008, with Australia the number one destination for those emigrating. Eric Ellis interviews those about to flee.
