Mahmood infuriates fellow ministers by failing to reveal impact of UK migration shake-up
Home secretary’s colleagues fear homelessness will rise as a result of changes to the asylum systemShabana Mahmood has infuriated ministerial colleagu...
Energy secretary appears to U-turn on opposition to tougher migration rules
Miatta Fahnbulleh says reference to ‘awkward’ interview was meant to be lighthearted and self-deprecatingThe energy secretary has been forced to clari...
Minister says Mahmood’s migration policy will ‘prolong integration’
In now-removed post, Miatta Fahnbulleh criticised home secretary’s proposal to extend qualifying period for settlement in UKThe energy secretary, Miat...
Australia has never driven migration into reverse by design. Would slamming the brakes on be calamitous?
Australia does have a migration challenge – but it’s not what One Nation and the Coalition think it isGet our new political email, free app or daily n...
A Rural Village Voted to Leave the U.K., Stirring Britain’s Migration Debate
A plan to house 1,250 asylum seekers on the outskirts of Piddington prompted a symbolic independence vote, highlighting a growing dilemma for the gove...
Coalition’s migration plan risks breaching India free trade agreement and damaging economy, advocates warn
Angus Taylor’s drastic cuts to graduate visas aim to end a citizenship pathway, but universities body says changes will make Australia less competitiv...
Coalition set to unveil dramatically deeper cuts to overseas migration as it fends off One Nation’s rise
Sources say the opposition’s target will be below Labor’s but won’t match One Nation’s goal to limit net arrivals to 130,000Get our new political emai...
Would slashing migration tank the economy or reset Australia’s living standards? Canada may offer clues
Annual population growth for the North American nation has slowed to just 0.5% – and the economy is ‘adjusting’Get our breaking news email, free app o...
Labor targets ‘visa hopping’ international students in crackdown on ‘permanently temporary’ migration
Migration agents and lawyers ‘selling false hope’ to people seeking to stay in Australia also in government’s sights as it seeks to reduce overseas ar...
Youth Frustration and Migration Shadow Morocco’s Election
Unemployment and poor public services fueled the border crisis at Ceuta and the Gen Z protests, but frustrated young people may stay away from the pol...
Australia news live: Chalmers says migration needed for falling birth rate; city of Sydney bans smart glasses
Follow the day’s news live.Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe treasurer, Jim Chalmers, says the Albanese government is com...
Think Australia would be better off with less migration? The numbers tell a different story
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Amid claims of ‘mass migration’, Labor hopes a measured approach will take the hot air out of the debate
The country’s migration settings have become a source of discontent – but will Tony Burke’s approach be seen as the right mix?Get our breaking news em...
One Nation vows to cut migration by 750,000 sparking fears for key industries including aged care
New policy has already attracted bipartisan condemnation with Labor warning it would damage construction, aged care and agricultureFollow our Australi...
‘Absurd, hardline calls’: questions over Sweden’s post-Brexit migration policy
Sweden has ordered more Britons, including vulnerable people, to leave post-Brexit than any other EU countryHe arrived with nothing other than the clo...
‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentimentAndy Burnham must overhaul Shabana Mahmoo...
Australia’s refugee intake to be slashed as Labor works to reduce migration amid One Nation pressure
Quota to fall by a third to Coalition-era levels in move that the Greens say makes Australia ‘meaner and weaker’Follow our Australia news live blog fo...
One Nation MP concedes party’s migration target ‘not too different’ from Labor’s once rural workforce included
David Farley says party wants 100,000 migrant rural workers in addition to the 130,000 migration target it considers the ‘true’ numberFollow our Austr...
‘Migration has been weaponised’: Italy’s security law criticised after death of Moroccan man in police restraint
Case of Abderrahim Fakir is first in which legal shield giving police greater protection from prosecution has been invokedIf, before 19 July, few peop...
Nearly 100 children detained as adults under UK-France migration deal
Figures emerge in critical letter to Home Office from organisation appointed to scrutinise detention facilitiesNearly 100 children have been wrongly i...
Bragg says lower-income earners should accept substandard housing as colleagues rebuke his migration target
Angus Taylor cautions NSW senator for diverging from policy in National Press Club speech as Nationals warn against changes to working holiday visasFo...
Andrew Bragg stands by proposed migration limits – even as Liberal colleagues decline to back him in
Angus Taylor and other Coalition members not supporting shadow housing minister’s target migration numbers, which would be the lowest figures since th...
British man with dementia told to leave Sweden after losing migration case
Exclusive: Horace Mason, 74, who has lived in Sweden for 25 years, faces being deported after court rulingA 74-year-old British man who has been livin...
