Questions are still being asked about the length of time taken by ASIO to complete security assessments of asylum seekers.
The Guardian has published a summary of the findings of a Populus opinion poll on immigration in which 52% of Britons agree with the proposition “Muslims create problems in the UK," writes Richard Farmer.
A Liberal senator has gone fishing trying to connect asylum seekers and child pornography.
Three security guards working at Sydney’s Villawood detention centre have exposed occupational health and safety breaches at their workplace, in exclusive interviews with Crikey.
Tony Abbott is i an intellectual -- although for political reasons he hides it as carefully as Harold Macmillan did -- and that is the standard by which he should be judged, writes Noel Turnbull.
Apparently a petition like this one calling for a ban on Muslim immigration has been tabled some 68 times in Federal Parliament.
Michelle Grattan fires up over MP Scott Morrison's non-apology for his "insensitive" comments about asylum seekers attending funerals, declaring that Abbott needs to "get back the discipline", before the Opposition unravels completely.
On Monday, opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison sparked a debate by questioning the appropriateness of using taxpayers' dollars to fly relatives of victims of the Christmas Island shipwreck to Sydney to attend a funeral ceremony.
Joe Hockey should be forced to leave his position as Shadow Treasurer after he undermined colleague Scott Morrison and manipulated the funerals of asylum seekers for political benefit, writes an anonymous senior Liberal Party staffer.
If people must be held in immigration detention facilities, they should be located in metropolitan areas not remote locations, a report into Leonora immigration detention centre says today.
