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Three Pakistani seafarers who jumped over the side of their livestock ship into Fremantle harbour in an apparent asylum bid will be deported, the Immigration Department says.
Topics: immigration, sea-transport, fremantle-6160
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Immigration Minister Peter Dutton backtracks on his comments on the refugee resettlement deals between Australia and the US, saying he has "been clear that it's not a people swap".
Topics: federal-government, immigration, australia, united-states
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A class action against the Australian Government alleging Indonesian boys jailed for people smuggling were held in adult prisons will be heard in a Jakarta District Court today.
Topics: immigration, world-politics, courts-and-trials, indonesia, australia
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Humanitarian groups call for changes to the Federal government's refugee policy, wanting to see more settled in country areas.
Topics: immigration, refugees, armidale-2350
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Topics: community-and-society, immigration, refugees, uralla-2358
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| UpdatedThe Foreign Minister and the Immigration Minister appear to be at odds about whether the US refugee resettlement deal was part of a people swap.
Topics: refugees, immigration, federal-government, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedUS Supreme Court justices appear split over the rights of a Mexican family to sue over the death of their teenage son, who was shot while on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border by a US Border Patrol officer standing on US soil.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, immigration, united-states, mexico
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A lawyer for a man who fled Iran seeking asylum and is now in Papua New Guinea tells Beverley O'Connor his client is effectively "stateless".
Topics: refugees, immigration, papua-new-guinea, fiji, iran-islamic-republic-of, pacific
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| UpdatedA royal commission will quiz senior government officials about the Commonwealth's response to a report into the sexual abuse of children in immigration detention centres.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, immigration, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAfter decades of persecution, Copts hoped the Arab Spring might signal a turnaround in their fortunes. For many, though, life remains precarious, and there are calls for Australia to accept and help them.
Topics: christianity, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, discrimination, refugees, immigration, unrest-conflict-and-war, australia, egypt
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| UpdatedThere is a new program helping migrants launch their own businesses in an effort to tackle unemployment in the community.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, work, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA Vietnamese asylum seeker says she faced three months of detention and beatings after being returned by Australian immigration officials.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, refugees, government-and-politics, communism, indonesia, vietnam, asia
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Curt Levey from FreedomWorks about sweeping new guidelines drafted in the US aimed at detaining and deporting illegal immigrants.
Topics: immigration, government-and-politics, united-states
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Julian Burnside asks George Brandis if asylum seekers who come to Australia have committed any offence, February 20, 2017.
Topics: refugees, immigration, federal-government, australia, nauru
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| UpdatedAttorney-General George Brandis draws laughter from the Q&A audience as he suggests victims of the Government's error-plagued automated debt recovery system can simply contact Centrelink to have their case resolved.
Topics: welfare, refugees, human, immigration, government-and-politics, australia
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Reporter Diamant Salihu from Stockholm discusses Donald Trump's remark suggesting a major incident had happened in Sweden, February 20, 2017.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, terrorism, immigration, sweden, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Commonwealth formally concedes evidence used to demonstrate an Indonesian was an adult rather than a child during a people smuggling case was unreliable, as a court considers whether to quash the conviction entirely.
Topics: courts-and-trials, immigration, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedThe Department of Homeland Security drafts sweeping new guidelines aimed at aggressively detaining and deporting immigrants living in the US illegally, and issues directives for the immediate construction of a border wall.
Topics: world-politics, donald-trump, immigration, united-states
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| UpdatedSwedes have been scratching their heads and ridiculing US President Donald Trump's remark that suggested a major incident had happened in Sweden.
Topics: world-politics, terrorism, government-and-politics, donald-trump, immigration, us-elections, united-states, sweden
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| UpdatedA day after falsely suggesting there was an immigration-related security incident in Sweden, President Donald Trump says his comment was based on a television report he had seen.
Topics: terrorism, government-and-politics, donald-trump, world-politics, immigration, us-elections, sweden, united-states
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The Victorian Government will today launch a multi-million dollar campaign to counter racist attacks, abuse and discrimination.
Topics: immigration, state-parliament, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump's new travel ban executive order will exclude green card residency holders, Secretary for Homeland Security John Kelly says.
Topics: world-politics, immigration, donald-trump, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Trump administration denies it is working on a plan to use the National Guard to help round up illegal immigrants in up to 11 US states.
Topics: donald-trump, immigration, refugees, united-states
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A drawn-out battle with the Immigration Department ends in relief for an English family living in Lennox Head.
Topics: immigration, lennox-head-2478, lismore-2480
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Topics: primary-schools, immigration, english, canberra-2600