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Immigration Minister Andrew Giles on Friday.

Half the detainees freed after High Court ruling have no monitors or curfews

The government has successfully fended off a major legal challenge that would have seen up to 200 more immigration detainees released into the community.

  • by Olivia Ireland and Angus Thompson

Opinion & Perspectives

Chalmers wakes the baby debate the country needs

Jim Chalmers is not planning a fertility police squad in next week’s budget. But his comments on the birth rate go to an issue the world needs to debate.

Shane Wright
Shane Wright

Senior economics correspondent

If Chalmers gets the budget wrong, interest rate rises may kill his government

For Treasurer Jim Chalmers, this budget is existential. Bad decisions could increase unemployment or provoke more interest rate rises. Both would be political nails in the government’s coffin.

Shane Wright
Shane Wright

Senior economics correspondent

Biden’s curb on bomb delivery could be a catalyst to end Rafah standoff

The strength of the relationship between Biden’s administration and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is about to be tested to the utmost.

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Federal

Former senator Mitch Fifield in 2019.

Former UN ambassador urges no vote on Palestinian recognition

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong refused to say how Australia would vote, but there are divisions within Labor over the emotive issue.

  • by Matthew Knott and James Massola
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles on Friday.

Half the detainees freed after High Court ruling have no monitors or curfews

The government has successfully fended off a major legal challenge that would have seen up to 200 more immigration detainees released into the community.

  • by Olivia Ireland and Angus Thompson

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