An aeronautical vessel containing the Australian Minister for Immigration, Peter Dutton has been forced to return to base after being denied permission to land by the Switzerland Secretariat for Immigration. Minister Dutton was due to land in Geneva today to… Read More ›
Questions dog the government’s use of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) as a tool to execute behind the scenes foreign policy objectives by supporting the notorious Sri Lankan Criminal Investigation Department (CID). In the usual show of solidarity in foreign… Read More ›
The Federal opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has revealed his strategy for getting Labor elected at the ALP annual conference over the weekend. The strategy is designed to wrong-foot the government by agreeing with everything they say and thereby confusing them… Read More ›
New Greens leader Richard di Natale is facing scandal after Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon linked Australia’s failure to snare the Eurovision title to the governments controversial “turn back the boats” policy. In a short interview on Sky News, Senator Rhiannon… Read More ›
A Senate inquiry into the handling of allegations of assault and abuse at the Nauru detention centre has so far proved insubstantial with key Transfield management offering to take on notice basic questions about staff, alleged incidents and if they… Read More ›
Plans to introduce a policy whereby illegal boat arrivals must pay for the cost of their own detention has been leaked a few weeks away from announcing the federal budget for 2015-16. The leaked budget documents indicate that under the… Read More ›
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