Immigration

A year on from a US private prison provider taking over onshore immigration detention centres, workers report chronic staffing shortages, leading to more suffering for detainees.

Amamuddin Sadar struggled with anxiety from the long delay on a permanent visa. The news that he was finally eligible came shortly after he was stabbed to death.

While the government reaps the non-refundable fees of students applying to study in Australia, soaring rejection rates are raising alarm in the tertiary sector.

The political firestorm over the repatriation of the 34 women and children in a Syrian camp erupts after years of vacillation on the issue by the prime minister.

As the pressure intensifies on the Coalition to produce an immigration policy, the cultural divide within the parties makes a unified stance ever less likely.