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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

"'This is our home': Sydney family facing deportation makes plea to stay'.

'An Aussie family was left in limbo after a father and son were trapped in the US waiting on a visa so they could return home'.

'A group of veterans of the war in Afghanistan have vowed to step up their campaign to get Peter Dutton to intervene and grant humanitarian visas to Afghan translators who helped Australian soldiers'.

'A 30-year-old Australian woman was arrested on arrival at Sydney Airport [on 24 January], after an [ABF] and [AFP] investigation into migration fraud'

The giving of a false document to the Department has consequences that might go far beyond a mere refusal based on PIC 4020. It is also a criminal offence punishable with imprisonment for 10 years or 1,000 penalty units, or both

The government has just announced that it will expand the travel ban to Italy as of 6PM tonight, 11 March 2020.

"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.

"These actions are based on advice that the volume of reported COVID-19 cases in the Republic of Korea, and the scale of travel to Australia from the Republic of Korea, means that they present a high risk of further transmission of COVID-19 in Australia".

'The family of a young Iraqi father who died after self-harming at an WA immigration detention centre plan to take legal action against the Commonwealth'.