Fergus Hunter is a breaking news reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House
Refugees who sought asylum by boat will be banned from ever setting foot in Australia, even for the purposes of tourism or business, in a dramatic escalation of Australia's hard-line immigration policy.
The government's proposal to wind back paid parental leave is doomed after Senate crossbench powerbrokers the Nick Xenophon Team were forced to rule out support because of an election commitment.
Asylum seekers who seek to reach Australia by boat will never be allowed to enter the country, even if they are genuine refugees and seek to come as tourists decades later, under legislation to be introduced to Parliament this week by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.
The personal information of more than half a million Australian blood donors has been accessed by an unauthorised person in what could be one of the country's largest ever data breaches.
The ABC has axed the Friday broadcast of the 7.30 program just under two years after it replaced the eight state-based editions of the show.
Warren Mundine, the chairman of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, has slammed the setting up of an Aboriginal incarceration inquiry.
Labor says it cannot inspect or support legislation allowing ongoing detention of "high-risk terrorist offenders" until the government guarantees that outgoing Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson provided advice on the final version.
The national law reform commission will investigate ways to reduce high indigenous incarceration rates, which Attorney-General George Brandis has described as a "national tragedy."
The notorious "on-water matters" tag has long been used to signify secrecy around Australia's immigration policies, but now the Australian Border Force has taken their mission to the airwaves.
Attorney-General George Brandis has "crossed a key line of integrity" and should quit following the resignation of Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance.
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