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Peter Dutton
Voters back migration cuts as Dutton retreats on target
Labor seized on the move to accuse Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of dumping a promise he made in May.
- by David Crowe
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What Harry Triguboff really thinks about local councils and Chinese migrants
The 91-year-old Meriton boss said council staff should be given bonuses if they approved more development applications before making incendiary remarks about Chinese migrants.
- by Anthony Segaert
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Skills
‘Australians don’t want to do the work’: Top restaurants slam migration crackdown
Judy McMahon, owner of Rose Bay harbourside restaurant Catalina, said more than half of her employees were on visas.
- by Daniella White
Australia will pay countries to take our ‘undeportables’ in latest High Court fix
Labor’s agenda has won the Coalition’s support, but the Greens said it was the most “extreme migration legislation since the White Australia policy”.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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Dan Tehan
‘In bed with education agents’: Coalition under fire as Tehan dines with agents
Coalition immigration spokesman Dan Tehan was the featured guest at a private breakfast attended by education and migration agents the day before sinking Labor’s bill.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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Peter Dutton
Senior Liberal headlines event for student visa agents before tanking migration bill
Coalition education spokeswoman Sarah Henderson headlined an event for migration agents and private colleges in the weeks before tanking Labor’s high-profile student caps bill.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos and Paul Sakkal
Rich city universities got off too lightly under Labor’s caps: Dutton
Peter Dutton promised deeper cuts to student numbers and said “plenty of international students in pretty schmick accommodation” were stopping Australians from accessing housing.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Trump confirms plans to use military to deport migrants
The Republican repeatedly said on the campaign trail that his deportation policy would begin “on day one” of his presidency.
- by Farrah Tomazin
The issue dividing Australians more than ever
Roughly half of Australians believe immigration is too high, although their attitudes appear to be driven by record levels of worry about housing and the economy rather than a surge in anti-migrant sentiment.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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International students
Migration scheme in turmoil as Coalition, Greens torpedo overseas student caps
Labor’s laws to limit the number of foreign students have been blocked, the government calling Peter Dutton “a fraud” over his party’s decision.
- by Paul Sakkal and Natassia Chrysanthos
Trump weaponised the border crisis to get elected. Now he must deliver
A 12-year-old was raped and killed by illegal immigrants. Her mother’s pain served as an illustration for Trump’s signature policy. But will he succeed in deporting 11 million people?
- by Farrah Tomazin