Migration Amendment News Today

Greens senator David Shoebridge says Labor's proposed migration legislation would allow the government to impose a "Trump-style travel ban". RMIT ABC Fact Check takes a look.

Labor's draconian bill, which would allow the immigration minister to send asylum seekers back to countries where they could be killed, is one of the worst decisions it has made since being elected, argues Sue Bull.

The Federal Government has rushed legislation into parliament to make it easier to deport non-citizens and harder for detainees to…

Labors migration amendment is bad law, in flagrant disregard of our international human rights obligations. Bring on minority government.

The government has failed in its attempt to ram unprecedented changes to the migration act through parliament. The laws, now being reviewed by a senate committee, could be disastrous.

Greens attack the legislation, now the subject of a Senate inquiry, as a ‘Trump-style travel ban’

Labor brings forward urgent bill, which would also create power to impose a bar on new visa applications from non-citizens in designated countries

The broad prohibition on people from certain countries, seriously undermines Australia’s long held “non-discriminatory” immigration policy.

Refugee rights group said 40 people who recently sought asylum in Western Australia should be brought back from offshore detention. Pip Hinman reports. 

Refugee rights group said 40 people who recently sought asylum in Western Australia should be processed here, not in offshore detention. Pip Hinman reports.