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For the first time, a woman has been appointed to the hawkishly masculine home affairs portfolio. Whether this will bring a change of approach on asylum seekers and other issues remains to be seen.
Those who have been released have little financial or social support, confining them to lives of precarity, dependency and impoverishment in our community.
Denying protection to asylum seekers is neither sustainable nor defensible as long-term policy. Here are ways to make the screening process at airports more just when the borders do reopen.
Some changes in the new security bill submitted to parliament last week are welcome, but others require careful scrutiny, especially when the rights of children are at stake.
There were 8,000 forced relocations in Australia’s immigration detention system in a nearly two-year span. New research shows how distressing and destabilising these movements are for refugees.
From high staff turn-overs to filling the appeals tribunal with political allies, the Home Affairs department needs to clean its mess.
Mike Burgess, previously head of the Australian Signals Directorate, has a solid history in the intelligence area and Labor has welcomed the choice.
Similar concerns were raised 40 years ago when the Department of Defence was formed, but the decision to merge several agencies is now held up for its strategic vision.
With parliament sitting next week, the home affairs minister is pressuring Labor to support a repeal of the medevac law. But the law has worked just as it was intended.
Australians should be concerned about any shift to an intelligence model that is based on the introduction of greater powers on the one hand, and less oversight and governance on the other.
Any sign of hubris must be avoided, but a prudent opposition – especially with polls suggesting it’s soon likely to be the executive – needs to be well prepared for the first days of power.
He is not, however, being accompanied by Home Affairs
Minister Peter Dutton, who leads much of the campaigning on the issue.
If the government really intends to “reopen” Christmas Island in any major way, it could find itself spending a lot of money there on few if any people.
Australia’s immigration department doesn’t keep a record of the number of people applying for asylum at airports. This means there is no oversight over the treatment of those seeking protection.
After Shorten was briefed by security officials and with enormous political pressure coming from the government, Labor moved back from its support of the bill as it has come out of the Senate.
An analysis of budget documents suggests that federal funding for community-based, counter-terrorism programs has dried up.
With polling showing Labor is vulnerable on security issues, the opposition leader has the difficult task of distinguishing his party from the government while not being wedged from the right.
The Greens will try to move a no confidence motion against the home affairs minister, but the numbers are not there for it to succeed - proving government members are united.
Australia’s Migration Act allows for ministerial discretion in cases such as the controversial granting of tourist visas to four au pairs - but there remain questions around responsible government.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow, ARC Laureate Evacuations Research Hub, UNSW
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Professor and Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW
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Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Sessional Lecturer and PhD Candidate, Monash University
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Professor of Psychology, University of New Brunswick
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Professor of Public Policy & Law, Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Adjunct professor, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, International Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Northumbria University, Newcastle