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Australia's controversial 501 deportation policy will be at the top of the New Zealand Prime Minister's agenda when she meets with Anthony Albanese in Sydney today.

After four years in immigration detention, the Nadesalingam family from Tamil will arrive back home in Biloela, Queensland today.

The newly-elected Labor Prime Minister welcomed Ms Ardern today

New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern has touched down in Australia for Prime Minister Anthony Albaneses first...

The family of Tamil asylum seekers yelled out Hello Brisbane, hello Queensland as they arrived in the Sunshine State on the way home to their adopted hometown of Biloela.

High court found in favour of Turkish citizen whose Australian citizenship was cancelled over Asio finding he joined Islamic State

The family of Tamil asylum seekers held in detention for more than four years have finally begun their ...

Anthony Albanese says he is proud to see Tamil family returning home, but their long-term status remains unresolved

The case of the Murugappan family illustrates the punitive and puritanical approach of the previous government towards human beings arriving in Australia by boat and then seeking asylum. The tone of each message clearly reflects totally different attitudes towards the people affected, with special note of the fact that Minister Chalmers rang the family to tell them, and then rang people in Biloela to pass on the news. By Kerry Murphy

When it comes to the business of politicising the right to asylum, no country jettisons the key principles of international law better than Australia, argues Binoy Kampmark.