Detainee dies
'A male detainee at Villawood Detention Centre has died, the Australian Border Force has confirmed'
Increased flexibility for international students to support supermarkets
The Federal government has recently announced as follows: "Today the Morrison Government has announced that supermarkets in States and Territories subject to COVID-19 lockdowns...
‘Migration overhaul: Regional needs to…’
'Prime Minister Scott Morrison has cleared the ground for a migration overhaul that confronts surging growth in Sydney and Melbourne, using regional rules to set a different approach for each part of the country'.
Some students able to work more than 40 hrs / fortnight
"Australia’s major supermarkets will temporarily be able to offer more hours to international student employees to help keep shelves stocked". It will be interesting to see whether this measure is extended to other industries until the situation is normalised.
‘Trump govt seeks longer migrant detentions’
'President Trump's US administration plans new regulation to allow authorities to keep immigrant children in detention for longer than the current 20-day limit'.
‘Peter Dutton attacks Roman Quaedvlieg…’
'Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has hit back at the former Australian Border Force (ABF) commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg, telling Parliament he was "discredited and disgraced".
‘Australia’s big immigration myth’
'PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has taken aim at Australia’s obsession with population growth, saying it is a “fairly irrelevant statistic” and immigration policy is far more nuanced than many of us realise'.
“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'.
ABF probe involving RMAs and non-RMAs
'The individual is alleged to have engaged with several complicit Registered Migration Agents to lodge applications with the Department of Home Affairs, sponsoring individuals for positions in businesses that do not exist'
Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
On 4 March 2019, Australia and Indonesia sign the IA-CEPA, a Free Trade Agreement which, once implemented in Australia through domestic law, might create an exception to the Labour Market Testing requirement for Indonesian workers




















