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'An Australian passport is not evidence of a person’s citizenship,” said the department, which noted passports were issued to non-citizens prior to a law change in 2005'

'What happens if the Senate passes this amendment that would allow asylum seekers and refugees to be brought to Australia [for medical reasons]?'

'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'.

'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'.

"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".

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

'First, the government is cutting the permanent migration program by a cumulative 120,000 places over four years. The new cap is 160,000 per annum, down from the cap of 190,000. The average intake over the last five years has been 183,000... Second, the government is introducing strong incentives for new international students to choose locations outside of the big capital cities'.

'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'.

'NSW Premier... will today continue her mission to turn immigration into a state issue, announcing a six-point plan to address the state's "ballooning population"'

'Lawyers... say they will press for a legal precedent [at the High Court] that a "member of the Aboriginal race of Australia" under the constitution cannot be treated as an "alien"'