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The Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney, where people who overstay tourist and student visas will be detained until they are deported.

Albanese accused of reviving Abbott-era onshore detention

The Albanese Labor Government has been accused of reviving the Abbott Government-era policy of using onshore detention centres to deter illegal immigrants.

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Margaret Febey and her mother Alison Batt, whose Traralgon home was burgled in August, and her antique brooch and car stolen.

The state revealed as Australia’s home burglary capital

Fresh national data has revealed which particular state is Australia’s worst for burglaries with a house broken into every two hours.

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One Nation’s policy is like using a chainsaw to prune a bonsai.

Why Pauline Hanson’s blunt migration cuts won’t work

MARK RILEY: One Nation’s migration overhaul may sound simple, but the consequences for Australians would be anything but.

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The ABS has released the latest immigration figures.

Immigration growth at slowest pace in four years

Australia’s net overseas migration and population growth are both at four-year lows, but 800 foreigners are still moving in every day.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced different refugee targets three weeks ago.

The huge cost of Australia’s generosity to refugees

AARON PATRICK: As the government lowers net overseas migration, it needs to consider if the expensive humanitarian visa program should be reviewed too.

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Coalition’s migration call is sounding eerily similar to what their counterparts in Canada suggested two years ago.

Immigration trap that could destroy Liberal Party

Andrew Hastie’s call to tie immigration with housing supply could in fact end badly, politically, even if it’s popular and makes sense during a housing crisis.

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King Charles III during an audience with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Balmoral Castle in September 2025.

‘A privilege’: Albanese reveals phone call to King Charles

The Australian Prime Minister revealed the conversation with King Charles on Monday night.

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Bran Black, the CEO of the Business Council of Australia, said higher corporate tax rates and more rigid industrial relations policies were to blame for falling productivity.

The productivity crisis putting workers’ pay at risk of cuts

The lobby group for Australia’s most prominent corporate executives warns workers will continue seeing their pay lag behind inflation unless major change occurs.

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Cesar Barraza, the police officer who ended the Bondi Beach massacre, should be awarded civilian equivalent of the Victoria Cross, NSW Premier Chris Minns said.

NSW Premier supports Cross of Valour for Bondi police hero

Cesar Barraza, the police officer who ended the Bondi Beach massacre, deserves to be awarded civilian equivalent of the Victoria Cross, NSW Premier Chris Minns said.

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President George Bush Junior, right, greets Australian prime minister John Howard during their meeting in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 10, 2003 in Washington

John Howard reflects on terror attack that altered history

Just how different would the world be today if US and UK intelligence services hadn’t got it so wrong post-9/11? At 87, John Howard is finally ready to consider the possibilities.

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Interest rate predictions have shifted amid a higher than expected inflation rate. RBA Governor Michele Bullock and Treasurer Jim Chalmers. (Susie Dodds/AAP PHOTOS)

Another interest rate rise looms. Why?

The national mood is sour. We have been hit by a perfect economic and political storm.

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Australia was a notable omission from a cast of countries led by the UK that declared a trade ban on Israeli goods.

Australia opts out of ‘moral emergency’ Israeli trade ban

LATIKA M BOURKE: A cast of countries led by the UK has declared a ban on Israeli goods from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank — with Australia a notable omission.

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AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett.

‘Impacting our budget’: AFP leak shows fed cop cost crisis

Anxiety is growing inside Australian Federal Police ranks over a proposed restructure of the organisation, after a staff warning from Commissioner Krissy Barrett of a ‘workforce budget realignment’.

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Communications Minister Anika Wells said the duty of care would “install a foundation of basic safety standards“.

Online reforms to give Anika Wells sweeping new powers

Online platforms will be forced to give Australian users a pop-up box to give them a clear choice on what content appears in their social media feed under the Communications Minister’s sweeping new powers.

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Pauline Hanson, Andrew Hastie The Nightly

Hanson calls Andrew Hastie a ‘wanker’ over traitor claim

The senior Liberal MP accused One Nation of calling him a ‘traitor’, a charged denied by party leader Pauline Hanson, who has now called him ‘a wanker’.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time on September 7.

Is the Albanese Government approaching tipping point?

EDITORIAL: The times are at the very least glum and uncertain. A deep malaise hangs over the country.

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One Nation’s rise appears to be influencing federal politics if today’s Question Time is anything to go by.

One Nation’s influence in Canberra far outweighs its numbers

AARON PATRICK: The protest party is exerting influence over the national policy debate far beyond the weight of its modest parliamentary representation.

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Pauline Hanson says Andrew Hastie won’t be spared by the Orange tsunami at the federal Election.

‘Put your head down’: Hanson’s ominous warning to Hastie

Pauline Hanson says Andrew Hastie will not be spared in her plan to turn Australia orange at the next federal Election — warning him she is coming for his seat.

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