The US president used the global stage to lecture the world on unchecked immigration and the “con job” of climate change in a defiant and at-times threatening address.
As Labor defended Australia’s migration program against political attack,the government came under additional fire from refugee advocates over its $408 million Nauru deal.
Australia has been sending asylum-seekers to the tiny Pacific nation since 2001. It doesn’t solve the issue.
Traumatised and alone,the then 17-year-old made her way across northern Africa and Europe to seek safety in England.
The Murrugappans will be guests of honour at the Brisbane premiere of Back to Bilo,which depicts their immigration battle and the town that rallied around them.
The federal government has a special visa pathway for Palestinians arriving from Gaza,but the flow of refugees has slowed.
It’s not often enough in journalism that you can follow up a heartbreaking story with a positive outcome. This is one of those times.
Anti-migrant demonstrators and refugee-advocate rivals are coming together outside asylum hotels as an explosive dispute about where to house thousands of people crossing the English Channel gathers pace.
Sidiqa Faqihi waited a decade in limbo in Indonesia before she arrived in Australia three years ago and felt reborn.
The nation’s record of welcoming people in need casts a long shadow over the divisive debate on refugees and asylum seekers.