To follow is the three page memo sent to staff by the secretary of the Department of Immigration, Andrew Metcalfe, the day after the High Court decision...
Ironically, a government whose members have in the past described the Pacific Solution as inhumane relied on and failed using the same legislation because it could not guarantee basic human rights protections, says freelance writer Luke Williams.
A collection of what Michelle Grattan described as "the worst collection of front page pictures in recent memory."
Little known to Australians is that more than 8000 asylum seekers already live in the community and the sky hasn’t fallen in, writes Caz Coleman, a member of the Council for Immigration Services and Status Resolution.
Over the last decade we've spent over $100,000 detaining each and every boat arrival.
Assault charges arising from an incident at Darwin's Northern Immigration Detention Centre again have highlighted the detrimental consequences of significant delays in the processing of security clearances for refugees, writes freelancer Nigel O'Connor.
Keane has crunched the numbers across budget and ANAO documents and calculated that our politicians' fixation with asylum seekers arriving by boat has cost taxpayers nearly $2.4 billion since 2000.
The High Court will today hear a challenge, led by QC David Manne, on the human rights implications of sending asylum seekers who have arrived by boat in Australia to Malaysia as part of the federal government's hyped Malaysian Solution.
It's interesting to examine the circular nature of political polling and public opinion regarding asylum seekers. Immigration now rates as the most critical issue for Australians and the extreme discourse is just encouraging it, writes Laura Tingle.
Fresh doubt has been cast on the admission of foreign students into Australian universities, with a new study revealing academic gatekeepers are recklessly abusing a blunt instrument that fails to properly gauge basic English language skills.
