The UN is in danger of losing Western confidence
The Australian To her credit, the ABC's Leigh Sales did pursue the extraordinary accusations of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees concerning an alleged undertaking by Australian immigration officials, and left him floundering. As long as the UN's human rights ... |
The Guardian |
Government's multicultural body says proposed changes to English language test too harsh
The Guardian Introducing the citizenship changes bill to parliament, the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, said the changes put “Australian values at the heart of citizenship processes”. “Membership of the Australian family is a privilege and should be granted to ... |
The Conversation AU |
Loss, trials, and compassion: the music of Australia's Jewish refugees
The Conversation AU After the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938, Jewish refugee applications to Australia soared to over 10,000. Australia's immigration policy at the time was clear: in 1937 Prime Minister Joe Lyons wrote that “our population is 99.1% of British ... |
Loss, trials, and compassion: the music of Australia's Jewish refugees
The Conversation AU After the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938, Jewish refugee applications to Australia soared to over 10,000. Australia's immigration policy at the time was clear: in 1937 Prime Minister Joe Lyons wrote that “our population is 99.1% of British ... |
The Australian |
Better Cities: Perth urged to attract overseas students
The Australian Marion Fulker, chief executive of the Committee for Perth, said mining would continue to play a “very significant part” in the West Australian economy but there were lessons to be learned from what the mining sector did after the slowdown began in 2014 ... |
New York Times |
Immigration as a Security Threat - The New York Times
New York Times Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, right, at Holsworthy Barracks in Sydney, Australia, last week amid a backdrop of military equipment and soldiers wearing gas ... |
Caution urged around migrating humpbacks
The West Australian Ocean-goers are being urged to give humpback whales space as they make their annual migration up the WA coast to mate. With sightings of the giants picking up off the Ningaloo and Pilbara coast, residents and tourists are pining to go out and catch a ... |
The Australian |
Macron vows to clear migrants off streets
The Australian France has escaped the brunt of Europe's migration turmoil, receiving 87,550 asylum applications from April last year to March this year, a fraction of the 598,515 received in Germany over the same period. Many of the migrants arriving in France intend ... |
The Australian |
Emmanuel Macron vows to clear migrants from the streets
The Australian France has escaped the brunt of Europe's migration turmoil, receiving 87,550 asylum applications from April last year to March this year, a fraction of the 598,515 received in Germany over the same period. Many of the migrants arriving in France intend ... |
New York Times |
Immigration as a Security Threat
New York Times Australia began this century with a Department for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Back then, the department's slogan was “Enriching Australia through Migration.” Just over a decade ago it dropped the multiculturalism portfolio entirely ... |
SBS |
UK government sorry for child migrant abuse at Australian farm ...
SBS A UK inquiry has concluded its public hearings into how child migrants were sexually abused, beaten and used as slave labour at Australian farm schools. |
Citizenship rules make no sense since most of us come from ...
The Sydney Morning Herald We're all of us a bit foreign, apart from the few First Australians whose families have avoided intermarriage. |
SBS |
UK government sorry for child migrant abuse at Australian farm schools
SBS British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has told a UK inquiry that last century's child migration policy was "fundamentally flawed" and led to the sexual abuse of children at farm schools in Australia. In a statement read to the child sexual abuse inquiry ... |
The Sydney Morning Herald |
Citizenship rules make no sense since most of us come from somewhere else
The Sydney Morning Herald Inside Story's Tim Colebatch finds that between 2008 and 2016 Australia's labour market created an extra 474,000 full-time jobs. But only 74,000 went to people born in Australia. The bulk (400,000) went to migrants. Around 364,000 went to migrants who ... |
Guardian immigration economist blows stack
MacroBusiness (blog) Obviously it's impossible to determine what the fiscal contribution will be for the current batch of 'new arrivals' but there is some evidence in the census that earlier cohorts of migrants do outearn the Australian-born cohort after a period of time ... |
The Sunshine Coast Daily |
Will Inland Rail bring migration boom to Toowoomba?
The Sunshine Coast Daily The figures do not include population growth from births and deaths or foreign migration. Regional Development Australia Darling Downs and South West chief Bryan Gray said Toowoomba's stable population could change if Inland Rail turned Toowoomba ... |
SBS |
Australia to accept first Central American refugees under US deal: sources
SBS In exchange, Washington said it would accept up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in Australian immigration centers in the Pacific Island nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru that Australia wants to close. A group of approximately 30 refugees from El ... UN accuses Australia of backtracking on asylum seeker deal |
Reuters Canada |
Exclusive: Australia to accept first Central American refugees under US deal - sources
Reuters Canada In exchange, Washington said it would accept up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in Australian immigration centers in the Pacific Island nations of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru that Australia wants to close. A group of approximately 30 refugees from El ... |
MacroBusiness (blog) |
Another economist challenges MB on mass immigration
MacroBusiness (blog) After Rob Burgess' fail last month, another economist has stepped up to the plate to challenge my view that Australia's immigration program is way too high and is lowering Australian living standards. In The Guardian yesterday, Tom Westland penned an ... |
Skilled migration: Graduate balance under pressure
The Australian The report from Julie McMillan, Daniel Edwards and David Phillips from the Australian Council for Educational Research, found skilled migration had contributed significantly to the available degree-qualified workforce. But Dr Edwards noted there were ... |
U.S. News & World Report |
Exclusive: Australia to Accept First Central American Refugees Under US Deal - Sources
U.S. News & World Report SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will accept several dozen Central American refugees within the next few months, two sources familiar with the process told Reuters, the first transfers under a controversial refugee swap arrangement agreed with the United ... UN accuses Australia of backtracking on asylum seeker deal |
Reuters |
Exclusive: Australia to accept first Central American refugees under US deal - sources
Reuters In exchange, Washington said it would accept up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in Australian immigration centers in the Pacific Island nations of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru that Australia wants to close. A group of approximately 30 refugees from El ... UN accuses Australia of backtracking on asylum seeker deal |
euronews |
Exclusive - Australia to accept first Central American refugees under US deal: sources
euronews In exchange, Washington said it would accept up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in Australian immigration centres in the Pacific Island nations of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru that Australia wants to close. A group of approximately 30 refugees from El ... UN accuses Australia of backtracking on asylum seeker deal |
SBS |
UK child migrants sent to 'pedophile rings' in Australia, inquiry hears
SBS Child migrants kept being trafficked from the UK to Australia despite officials knowing that some institutions they were sent to harboured pedophile rings, a UK inquiry has been told. Dr Margaret Humphreys of the Child Migrants Trust told the child ... |
SBS |
UK child migrants sent to 'pedophile rings' in Australia, inquiry hears ...
SBS A UK inquiry has been told that child migrants kept being sent to farm schools in Australia despite official knowledge that some harboured pedophile rings. |
SBS |
Family denied last chance to stay in Australia after second bid for intervention fails
SBS Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has refused to intervene in the case of the Lees, despite thousands signing a petition to stop them being thrown out of the country. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection advised the family in a letter ... |
Herald Scotland |
Gordon Brown: Forced child migration scandal is worse than Savile case
Herald Scotland “In Australia, a national redress scheme may offer up to 150,000 Australian dollars (£90,000) to abused migrants. It is for Australian and other Commonwealth countries to compensate for the failure to protect and prosecute when children came to their ... |
National Geographic |
Human Arrival In Australia Pushed Back 18000 Years
National Geographic A team of archaeologists from the University of Queensland came to their conclusions by excavating a rock shelter in Majedbebe, a region in northern Australia, during digs conducted in 2012 and 2015. Among the artifacts found in the region were stone ... Buried Tools and Pigments Tell a New History of Humans in Australia for 65000 Years New date rewrites history of man's migration out of Africa: Artefacts reveal humans arrived in Australia 20000 years ... Reimagining the History of Human Migration With a 65000-Year-Old Find |
