Yesterday
Crackdown on overseas students triggers rise in refugee applications
A big spike in applications for refugee status is being explained by the federal government’s attempts to cut the number of overseas students in the country.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- International students
Private colleges ‘collateral damage’ of migration changes
Alana Anderson’s business might have won exporter of the year for the NT but nothing is going to save her from the government’s migration agenda.
- Julie Hare
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
Albanese should call out the Greens on antisemitism
The PM is correct that “words matter”. So he should stop talking in code about the elevated terror threat.
- John Roskam
- Exclusive
- International students
‘Careful what you wish for’: The hidden hit in foreign student caps
Foreign student enrolments in Canada plunged far more than expected after the government capped visas, in a salutary tale for Australia.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Opinion
Populist surge makes it essential to spread gains of migration
Conflict over migration is now breaking out into the open in Western nations. But excessive limits would have a high cost too.
- Tanveer Ahmed
Foreign student crackdown is ‘economic self-sabotage’: uni chiefs
The policy change is over-reach, interventionist, Draconian and probably unworkable, scores of experts told a a Senate inquiry.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- International students
Unis to be capped at 40pc overseas students
The federal government will limit universities to 40 per cent international enrolments and bring numbers back to 2019 levels.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Legal industry
New migration judges appointed to stop ‘bad actors’
Nine new federal judges will start work on Monday as part of a push to tackle delays in migration cases.
- Michael Pelly
Telling overseas students what they can study is ‘pointless’
Dictating what overseas students can and cannot study to help Australia’s skills profile achieves little because 84 per cent of them go home, ANU analysis says.
- Julie Hare
Burke working on steps for 2000 Palestinians to stay in Australia
“Obviously, no country in the world would send people back to Gaza at the moment,” says the Home Affairs minister.
- Ronald Mizen
Far-right riots sweep Britain over child murders
Police officers were injured and shops were looted as anti-immigrant activists faced off with anti-racism protesters in cities and towns across the UK.
- Belinda Jiao and Amanda Ferguson
Vacancy rates show overseas students being scapegoated: unis
New analysis shows locals in Australia’s three biggest cities have a better chance of finding an apartment in suburbs with large international student populations.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Like Howard, Albanese knows two heirs apparent are better than one
Labor’s leadership succession plan seems less obvious than it did six months ago.
- Phillip Coorey
Greens prepared to be flexible on housing demands
The Greens say their demands to curb the CGT exemptions and negative gearing deductions are not a condition of their support for housing bills in the Senate
- Phillip Coorey
July
- Opinion
- Opinion
Multicultural report buries Australia’s British past
The institutions that Britain brought – parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, an independent judiciary and a free press – are the very institutions which have allowed multiculturalism to flourish. This report ignores them.
- James Curran
An exodus from NZ means there are more Kiwis here than ever before
Concessions to give New Zealanders quicker access to permanent residency are contributing to high migration levels.
- Julie Hare
Surge in expats coming home could thwart migration targets
Strong labour conditions are attracting Australian citizens back from overseas. It could be a political problem for Labor.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Opinion
New sectarianism has Albanese in a multicultural muddle
A commitment to multiculturalism doesn’t answer why “Muslim Votes Matter” sits so uneasily with Australia’s liberal democracy.
- John Roskam
- Opinion
- Protests
Australia’s great threat is a clash of civilisations
Seismic undercurrents of discontent are surfacing in society as religious beliefs collide and a generation is locked out of the housing market.
- John Carroll
- Opinion
- Opinion
Our larrikin egalitarianism is more appealing than tribalism
This is another critical time for this nation’s multiculturalism. Anthony Albanese must lead the case against sectarian identity politics that might unsettle it.
- Tanveer Ahmed
