Four years ago, Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias attempted to report corruption in offshore contracts – the department’s response has left him mentally unwell and in financial turmoil.
Steep funding cuts to the government’s ‘safety net’ are pushing asylum seekers awaiting resolution of their immigration status into poverty and homelessness.
As anti-immigration sentiment is politicised around the world, new arrivals to Australia are being portrayed as detrimental to the economy – when in fact the opposite is true.
The notion of the Indian diaspora as a voting bloc for Labor needs closer examination, as people in migrant communities say the Coalition has worked hard to lose their support.
As Pauline Hanson tells The Saturday Paper her One Nation party is ‘not going to be a bridesmaid anymore’, Labor insiders reveal the prime minister’s approach to dealing with racial anxieties.
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has stood firm against another far-right attack on her leadership, but it has exposed a struggle between the Liberal Party’s powerbrokers.
ANALYSIS: In its $2.5 billion deal to deport at least 280 people released from indefinite detention, the government shows its willingness to circumvent both the Constitution and human rights law.
Sydney’s Asylum Seekers Centre has been helping refugees for 32 years. Now its running will be entrusted to a man who truly understands what it means to walk through its doors.
The latest Commonwealth Ombudsman’s report into long-term detention took nearly nine months to be tabled in parliament, indicative of the cruel pace at which time moves for asylum seekers.
