Why have authorities bent over backwards to help some people stay in Australia, while banning others from entering?

Backbencher Andrew McLachlan describes the 23 children as ‘innocents’ victimised by their parents’ ‘tragic attraction to a horrible ideology’ ...

A piano teacher who taught children of Hollywood power players was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison for ...

Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party have become more palatable for some Australians after the mass shooting at Bondi ...

The contribution of immigration to this country is not just positive, it is formative. Migrants are who we are.

An Iranian asylum seeker who arrived by boat 15 years ago has won a bid to stay in Australia despite spending nearly eight ...

Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame said the word was a "misogynist's code for a woman who won't comply".

Labor will introduce new powers for the Home Affairs Minister to halt some temporary visa holders due to come to Australia and prevent a flood of people claiming asylum once they arrive, in a change ...

When I first met Juma in 2004, he was living in Australia on a Temporary Protection Visa. A dedicated family man who had not seen his wife and children for eight years, he’d suffered a double negative ...

Brain drain becomes a hot election-year topic as young Kiwis continue leaving in droves for greener pastures abroad. Alice Peacock reports ...

Labor is cutting immigration, and the Coalition is talking about ‘good and bad’ migrants, as One Nation’s rise influences the debate ...

Police will seek to speak to the women and children arriving from Syria before they travel through immigrations but admit they cannot stop them.