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| UpdatedAmong the hundreds of New Zealand citizens being deported from Australia under a crack-down on migrants with criminal convictions, around half are believed to be of Pasifika origin.
Topics: emigration, immigration, crime, pacific, australia, new-zealand
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| UpdatedStarting around 3400 years ago, colonists from Solomon Islands began moving across the Pacific from island to island, before coming to a mysterious halt for some two thousand years.
Topics: immigration, pacific
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| UpdatedCanadian author and social activist Naomi Klein hits out at Australia's climate change policy on Q&A, while also comparing the Government's proposed refugee policies to Donald Trump.
Topics: climate-change, environment, community-and-society, immigration, australia
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| UpdatedSecond and third-generation Australians say they are shocked by Federal Government Facebook advertisements encouraging them to tell their relatives not to come to Australia illegally.
Topics: immigration, government-and-politics, advertising, social-media
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| UpdatedArtist Ben Quilty and author Richard Flanagan made a harrowing trip to Europe and the Middle East to witness first-hand the refugee crisis.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, contemporary-art, arts-and-entertainment, lebanon, syrian-arab-republic, australia
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The Federal Government will this week introduce legislation to ban refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru from ever coming to Australia, but how to the proposed changes differ from what's already in place?
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, refugees, government-and-politics, laws, law-crime-and-justice, federal-government, australia, nauru, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedZimra Hussain is one of dozens of refugee children in Toowoomba on Queensland's Darling Downs who have been drafted into an AFL program to help their integration into the community.
Topics: people, human-interest, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, toowoomba-4350, qld
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| UpdatedAbout 200 people gather to support a group of Syrian refugees at Melbourne's Eltham as anti-immigration protesters hold a counter rally.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, eltham-3095, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA memorial honouring the contribution of post-World War II migrants to Narrogin and surrounds has been unveiled.
Topics: community-and-society, local-government, history, refugees, immigration, narrogin-6312, albany-6330, northam-6401
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| UpdatedThe thousands of Europeans living in Bristol are threatening to start an uprising in the wake of the United Kingdom's shock decision to exit the European Union. Meet some of those taking a stand.
Topics: immigration, world-politics, community-and-society, united-kingdom, england
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| UpdatedYoung children are among the first group of Syrian and Iraqi refugees to arrive in Tasmania, as the PM defends the time taken to conduct security checks.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, federal---state-issues, tas
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Topics: books-literature, history, historians, refugees, immigration, albury-2640
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Two books by a Victorian historian explore the use and impact of post-war immigration publicity photos.
Topics: community-and-society, history, immigration, library-museum-and-gallery, world-war-2, albury-2640
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Topics: history, community-and-society, immigration, albury-2640
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| UpdatedA Brisbane amputee whose life was changed by a refugee writes to the Prime Minister asking him to rethink proposed migration law changes.
Topics: refugees, immigration, government-and-politics, federal-government, people, human-interest, brisbane-4000
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Amnesty International says Italy has committed human rights abuses that may amount to torture in some isolated cases, as the country tries to process migrants and refugees arriving by boat,
Topics: immigration, human, world-politics, italy, european-union
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Topics: immigration, papua-new-guinea
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Twenty new Australians are recruited to help migrant communities understand the dangers of a hot summer Down Under.
Topics: emergency-planning, bushfire, floods, immigration, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedFormer prime minister Kevin Rudd says the Federal Government's new asylum seeker laws are designed to cater to the "Hansonite insurgency" and "appease the mad right" of the Liberal Party.
Topics: immigration, federal-government, rudd-kevin, turnbull-malcolm, australia
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| UpdatedForeign Minister Julie Bishop says contentious changes to visa laws are not aimed at refugees or asylum seekers already in Australia, but has not ruled out that some may be deported.
Topics: refugees, immigration, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia, nauru
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| UpdatedAustralia's immigration laws will come under the microscope with the UN's special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants arriving in the country today.
Topics: immigration, refugees, federal-government, australia, papua-new-guinea, nauru
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Mildura chef Stefano de Pieri confronts Liberal frontbencher Sussan Ley over the Government’s proposed changes to immigration policy.
Topics: immigration, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedFederal Government minister Sussan Ley defends proposal to introduce a lifetime ban on asylum seekers and refugees on Q&A.
Topics: agricultural-crops, women-in-agriculture, rural-women, rural, agribusiness, government-and-politics, immigration, community-and-society, mildura-3500, vic, australia
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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has criticised the Federal Government's proposed lifetime ban on asylum seekers and refugees.
Topics: immigration, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia will not be breaking its international obligations by banning refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru from ever coming to the country, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, immigration, refugees, foreign-affairs, australia, papua-new-guinea, nauru