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Perth
Border Force commander wants travellers to be ‘match fit’ on arrival in WA
The ABF has processed 158,000 passengers since the borders came down on March 3, averaging about 5000 arrivals a day.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Immigration
Scared of hunger, Sri Lankans are willing to risk their lives on boats
Recent interceptions near Christmas Island are the first since January 2020. Chances are they won’t be the last.
- by Chris Barrett
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Immigration
‘We didn’t know there was an election’: Sri Lankan men reveal desperate boat journey
The dozen young men intercepted by Border Force on election day fled Sri Lanka hoping Australia would let them in.
- by Chris Barrett
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Asylum seekers
We have an opportunity to hit refresh on refugee policy
Now, more than ever, it is important to shape a long-term vision for Australian refugee policy – one that, in the words of the new prime minister, promotes “unity and optimism, not fear and division”.
- by Jane McAdam
Sick of stereotypes, Chalmers says Biloela ready to embrace detained family
Jim Chalmers says he has made “substantial progress” in Labor’s pledge to allow a Sri Lankan asylum seeker family home to their adopted Queensland home town.
- by Zach Hope
Albanese government turns around its first asylum seeker boat
Border Force has safely returned an asylum seeker vessel to Sri Lanka as an investigation is ordered into the disclosure of its arrival on election day.
- by Anthony Galloway
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
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Crime
More than 100kg of drug precursors seized as police arrest two men in CBD
Investigations began in July last year when Border Force officials intercepted a suspicious package that allegedly contained 135kg of gamma butyrolactone (GBL), the precursor to the so-called date rape drug GHB.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
Johnson defends asylum seeker Rwanda plan dubbed ‘shamefully cruel’
Some 160 charities and the Opposition condemned it, but the British PM says he’ll even enact legal reforms to ensure his Australian-inspired plan isn’t challenged.
- by Camilla Turner and Charles Hymas
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Smoking & vaping
Greg Hunt urges state governments to stop vapes being sold to children
Health minister Greg Hunt has written to state ministers urging them to stop the sale of e-cigarettes to children, but the states want them stopped at the border.
- by Dana Daniel
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Asylum seekers
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