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US Congress
The Irish are muscling in on our special US visa, so we've 'gone nuts'
The visa is the envy of countries around the world because of the privileged status it confers on Australians who want to work in the US.
- by Matthew Knott
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Education
Queensland teachers allowed to protest over Nauru
Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace won't intervene to stop some of the state's teachers walking off the job next week to protest children in detention on Nauru.
- by Stuart Layt
Daily Life
After being the only African-Aussies in town, I say make rural life a choice
'We were the only family of African descent living in the country town for the 20 years that I called it home.'
- by Mawunyo Gbogbo
Scott Morrison
Scott Morrison: 'I dropped to my knees in tears' over refugees
The Prime Minister has revealed some of the emotions he grappled with when tasked with stopping the flow of asylum seeker boats.
- by Nicole Hasham
ACT to re-open visa stream with new assessment system
Potential migrants who were close to applying when the program closed in June could get a second chance.
- by Sally Whyte
Jobs
Engineers forced to work as Queensland cabbies as qualifications remain unrecognised
The Queensland economy stands to lose $250 million in 10 years because the qualifications of migrants and refugees are not recognised.
- by Felicity Caldwell
World Politics
Armed American militias heed Trump and head south to confront caravan
The Texas Minutemen, according to McGauley, have 100 volunteers en route to the Rio Grande who want to help stop the migrants, with more likely on the way.
- by Mary Lee Grant & Nick Miroff
Immigration
No progress and no more site, but Immigration Place 'still on agenda'
There was a design competition, (at that stage) a site locked in, and $660,000 in donations raised, but then things went quiet.
- by Han Nguyen
USA
Trump promises immigration crackdown ahead of US mid-term elections
It is unclear whether the President's mooted plan to change laws about where and how migrants can seek asylum would pass legal muster.
- by Jeff Mason
Nauru
All children to be off Nauru by year's end
The federal government aims to remove all asylum seeker children from Nauru by the year's end as concerns escalate about their deteriorating health after languishing on the tiny Pacific atoll nation for up to five years.
George Brandis
All asylum seeker children to leave Nauru: Brandis
George Brandis has been grilled by a London radio host about Australia's treatment of asylum seeker children languishing on Nauru.
- by Latika Bourke