Asylum seekers
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Labor to investigate asylum seeker boat arrival as frontbench takes shape
Labor members are questioning the timing of Australian Border Force’s interception of a Sri Lankan boat on election day, which led to the Liberal Party immediately texting millions of voters.
- by Anthony Galloway and James Massola
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Asylum seeker boat stopped off Christmas Island as Morrison trumpets border security on election day
The Coalition has been repeatedly trying to insert border security into the election campaign.
- by Anthony Galloway
Young, smart and unable to pursue a future
Thousands of young people who grew up in Australia are denied places at universities and TAFE because they cannot afford the international student fees imposed on people on temporary visas.
- by Bianca Hall
Investigation
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For 19,000 people, this election could open the door to life
The decade-long uncertainty meted out to men, women and children who sought to come to Australia by boat has left them unable to pursue meaningful futures.
- by Bianca Hall
‘I want to inspire others,’ says Afghan surfer who came by boat as a refugee
Now a businessman and surfing guide, Masi Mobin is ready to tell the harrowing story of his journey to Australia.
- by Carolyn Webb
‘She feared for her life’: Former guard sues Manus Island operator, government over riots
Chandra Osborne was three months into her job as a safety and security officer at the asylum seeker detention facility when violence erupted after months of growing unrest.
- by Adam Cooper
Opinion
The Taliban
Meeting the ‘heroes’ who bear cost of West’s failure in Afghanistan
So often the West’s failure in Afghanistan gets discussed in abstract terms; these women’s stories reveal precisely what is at stake.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
‘Hope and tears’: Biloela family peg change in fortunes on election outcome
Priya Murugappan says her family has been punished by the Coalition government for four years, so the government could stay in power.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Campaign goes back to the future with Mediscare and border security
Anne Ruston was welcomed to the health portfolio by being forced to defend old comments she made about Medicare, while Anthony Albanese again had to clarify Labor’s policies on border protection.
- by Katina Curtis, Anthony Galloway and Shane Wright
Opinion
Opinion
The cold-hearted calculus behind the Park Hotel prison
If they could be released now, why not two years ago? The cruelty was the point. That their plight might deter others from coming to this country by boat.
- by Bianca Hall
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Detention centres
Authorities probing death of Villawood detainee
Friends of a man who died in immigration detention in Sydney last weekend say he took his life after being bullied and bashed by other detainees.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons