Operation Sovereign Borders: Oct 2018 update
'This statement provides an update on Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB) activities related to the on-water reception and processing of illegal maritime arrivals'
‘Strong growth in Australian citizenship’
'83% increase in citizenship applications finalised in the last six months of 2018 compared with the same period last year'
Plan to outsource visa processing would be ‘dumped’ under Labor
'Plans to offload Australia's visa processing system to the private sector, potentially worth more than $3 billion to the winning company, would be dumped under a Shorten Labor government'
‘Vietnamese community knows what it’s like to be a refugee…’
'If there's one thing Hahn Do feared more than the pirates who terrorised refugees fleeing post-war Vietnam, it was the violent storms that threatened to smash his fragile boat to pieces'.
“‘This is our home’: Sydney family facing deportation…’
"'This is our home': Sydney family facing deportation makes plea to stay'.
‘Building on Australia’s success as an immigration nation’
'Celebrating Australia's record as the world’s most successful immigration nation will be a key priority for the Morrison government, newly appointed Minister for Immigration... said today'.
‘Turnbull plots against Dutton over eligibility…’
'Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has been texting and calling Liberal MPs to urge them to refer Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to the High Court'.
Operation Battenrun: ‘organised migration fraud’
'ABF’s Commander of Field Operations ... said the activity was part of Operation Battenrun, an ongoing ABF operation targeting those facilitating illegal foreign work and organised migration fraud'
“Daughters of Tamil family in detention ‘suffering…”
'Australia's Tamil Refugee Council say detention is playing on the health of a family facing deportation to Sri Lanka'.
‘Labor push to refer Peter Dutton to High Court’
'Regional housing markets are surging in some areas as the effects of the Sydney and Melbourne booms trickle down to those outside the major cities'.