Home Affairs expects the centre to move from an “active state” to “enduring capability” – empty but operated by a skeleton staff.
Firstmac customers are being warned they may need to replace their identity documents after copies of them were stolen by a ransomware gang.
A freedom-of-information request has revealed Home Affairs officials did not draft legislation until after the November High Court ruling on immigration detention.
Private colleges have been told to stop recruiting fake overseas students within six months or risk losing their licences.
The minister’s office also revealed he outsourced decisions over the visa conditions of former immigration detainees to departmental officials earlier this year.
The immigration minister has taken a veiled swipe at a government-appointed panel of experts who gave advice about a former detainee who is then alleged to have committed a violent assault.
A Commonwealth prosecutor twice raised fears a former immigration detainee would reoffend but did not oppose bail in the months before the man was accused of a brutal home invasion.
A former immigration detainee accused of a violent assault during a home invasion had his ankle monitor removed following advice from a board of experts.
The Albanese government’s fix for migration has come under fire from the opposition and former high commissioner to India Barry O’Farrell.
The former Liberal staffer spent time at the Point Piper home of late chief justice Laurence Street before Monday’s defamation judgment.
The Albanese government is facing pressure from a growing number of concerned Labor MPs about laws the party tried to rush through parliament last month.