There are growing tensions in Australia’s migration policy. So far, the Albanese government has not tackled it - but the ...

Australia needs to think seriously about how to persuade those suspicious of immigration that it is an essential tool to bolster the national interest. Australia is both a large and a small country: a ...

Australia’s migration program has failed to deliver what it promises. It brings in relatively few genuinely skilled workers, while favoring family migration. Australia’s permanent migration system is ...

The year is 1972. The Whitlam Labor government has just been swept into power and major changes to Australia’s immigration system are underway. Many people remember this time for the formal end of the ...

In Australia, a federal election may still be months away, but immigration — in particular the number of foreign students — is already a focus of political debate. Border control is again a key ...

A surge in Vietnamese immigration to Australia after the Vietnam War was the first test for multiculturalism after the White Australia Policy ended. Vietnamese refugees scramble from a sinking boat in ...

Amid ongoing discussion about Australia's immigration intake and migration policies, regional residents say many industries ...

Australian lawmakers passed a law Thursday to streamline the deportation of hundreds of people who have been denied Australian visas to “third countries” where they are not citizens — in an echo of ...

Indians are now Australia's largest migrant group, supplanting the English for the first time ever, in a change that highlights the rise of immigration as an increasingly contentious political issue.

The potential introduction of a cap on international student numbers is a hot topic within the Australian international education section. The latest twist in the ESOS Amendment Bill – the legislation ...