An international investigation has revealed the identity of the Australia-based Mr Big running a human trafficking ring and an illegal sex racket.
All eyes are on Clare O’Neil as she heads to Washington for her first meeting of home affairs ministers from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing nations.
The former government came under pressure from its own rural MPs to keep importing foreign abattoir workers,despite Home Affairs department warnings of widespread rorting.
Before the threat of foot and mouth disease,cargo and mail screening officers were reassigned to reduce passenger delays at international airports.
It has now been confirmed that Scott Morrison used border policy to play the most cynical and hypocritical politics.
The former government leaked information about a suspected asylum-seeker boat to select journalists against the express advice of the Department of Home Affairs.
The government has ramped up biosecurity checks at airports with a $14 million funding package.
Rescuers have pulled at least 16 others from the vehicle and took them for medical treatment.
The deputy prime minister says if reports are correct that Scott Morrison’s office was involved,“then this represents the final desperate acts of a dying government”.
The family of asylum seekers will be given a pathway to become Australian residents under a decision by the Albanese government to end years of dispute over their treatment.
Border Force has safely returned an asylum seeker vessel to Sri Lanka as an investigation is ordered into the disclosure of its arrival on election day.