These laws undermine the core principles of refugee protection and mark an escalation in Australia’s existing mistreatment of refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers. Australia Passes Harsh New ...

The Australian government has rushed legislation through Parliament that could place behind bars some of the migrants freed after the High Court ruled their indefinite detention was unconstitutional.

SYDNEY, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Australia has passed new laws allowing former immigration detainees to be locked up again if they pose any risk of committing serious offences after they were released in ...

SYDNEY - Australia will strengthen immigration laws and crack down on groups that incite hatred under a raft of counterterrorism measures introduced Monday in a bid to combat the threat from home ...

Immigration detention centres in Australia are also extremely violent and drug problems are prevalent, she added. “In some cases, [some] detention centres are run by certain criminal gangs.

Australia has released a stateless Rohingya man held in immigration detention for years, the government said on Friday, following a landmark court ruling that paves the way to end the indefinite ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — As Australia's High Court considers the fate of seven lawmakers who could lose their seats because they also hold foreign citizenship, some in the nation of immigrants ...

Home Affairs officials only began drafting emergency legislation to monitor criminals released from detention two days after a High Court judgment freed them, even though officials met Immigration ...