Australian immigration and asylum
Latest news affecting Australian immigration and asylum from the Guardian
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Behrouz Boochani calls Christchurch welcome a ‘reminder of kindness’Official reception highlights New Zealand’s differences with Australia over immigration
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Play VideoBehrouz Boochani welcomed to freedom in New Zealand as he arrives at Auckland airport – video
After six years forcibly held by Australia’s offshore processing regime in Papua New Guinea, most of it incarcerated on Manus Island, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and refugee advocate Behrouz Boochani arrives in New Zealand.
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Romanian cricket hero Pavel Florin denied visa to play in AustraliaMelbourne club Surrey Hills says it will persist in efforts to bring over Florin, whose distinctive bowling style delighted the world
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Coalition grilled on regional jobs package – as it happenedThe Senate-only sitting week has started in the midst of a debate on climate change as ‘catastrophic’ blazes threaten swathes of NSW and Queensland. All the day’s events, live
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'Designed to torture': asylum seeker chooses Iranian prison over PNG detention centreMan who spent nine weeks locked up inside Australian-funded centre in Port Moresby describes hunger, isolation and lack of legal support
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The fight over medevac and the people caught in the middleHelen Davidson and Saba Vasefi talk to Laura Murphy-Oates about why Peter Dutton is so intent on repealing this law and what will happen to sick asylum seekersPodcast
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'I can't believe I'm free': the Canadian citizens ending the torment for Australia’s offshore refugeesA unique private sponsorship program has relocated dozens of people from Papua New Guinea to Canada, giving them a chance ‘to be human again’
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Five-year-old boy facing deportation from Australia because of mild disabilityFamily appeals to home affairs minister Peter Dutton to stop their deportation to Bangladesh
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NSW police won't say if officers who abused Afghan women are still workingPolice offered no defence of officers during August investigation, but still ‘considering’ report
Today, Aotearoa New Zealand stands with Behrouz Boochani as a counterpoint to the politics of hate