Australia has little trouble attracting international IT students, but employment is proving difficult for graduates, despite the need to fill a quarter of a million jobs in the next five years.
The UN has ordered that Australia compensate the Afghan refugee who, having arrived as an unaccompanied child, endured more than seven years of detention.
The PM’s reunification of the super-ministry reverses a move that critics say made it more accountable, and is a boon for the leadership ambitions of Tony Burke.
As Australia’s national security apparatus is increasingly applied to pursuing suspected people smugglers, foundational concepts of justice are being cast aside.
Young refugees freed from Australian detention are then trapped by bridging visas that ban them from studying, deepening the damage inflicted by the immigration regime.
The company that’s long run Australia’s immigration detention network has lost its contract, but not before building one of the world’s ‘most extreme and secretive’ detention regimes.
As the government moved to set limits on the number of international students attending Australian universities, the opposition flipped its position, deciding there was more to be gained electorally from a continuing crisis than from a solution.
Asylum seekers released from detention on Nauru last month are living in the community but are forbidden to work and struggling to afford food, water and clothing.
The government’s attempts to prevent visa-hopping to favour skilled migrants have instead forced many highly qualified international students to retrain.
A flaw in Australia’s refugee laws means asylum seekers in the country on so-called fast-track visas are barred from universities or charged the same fees as international students.
