‘Consequences of blinking’:Cash warns about taking softer line on Biloela family

‘Consequences of blinking’:Cash warns about taking softer line on Biloela family

The lawyer for a Tamil family battling deportation says no one from the government has approached them with an offer to settle in New Zealand or the US.

  • byZach Hope,Hamish Hastie andKatina Curtis

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Liberal MPs privately pushing for Biloela family to move to mainland

Liberal MPs privately pushing for Biloela family to move to mainland

The sudden evacuation of three-year-old Tharnicaa Murugappan to a Perth hospital has changed the politics around the exile of the Biloela family to Christmas Island.

  • byDavid Crowe
Organised crime dealt ‘heavy blow’,says PM,after global police sting cracks open ‘encrypted’ app

Organised crime dealt ‘heavy blow’,says PM,after global police sting cracks open ‘encrypted’ app

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says organised crime has been dealt a heavy blow after a cross-border law enforcement operation yielded mass raids and arrests using intelligence from a compromised encrypted app.

  • byFergus Hunter
Limbo could end:Karen Andrews eyeing off New Zealand asylum-seeker deal

Limbo could end:Karen Andrews eyeing off New Zealand asylum-seeker deal

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews is negotiating with New Zealand about the future of asylum seekers left in limbo when Australia banned boat arrivals.

  • byRob Harris
Security committee to probe Australia’s stance on Hezbollah

Security committee to probe Australia’s stance on Hezbollah

A parliamentary inquiry has been launched into why Australia lists only one offshoot of Lebanese militant group and political party Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation.

  • byAnthony Galloway
Passengers stuck in Qld quarantine after Perth flight to be released

Passengers stuck in Qld quarantine after Perth flight to be released

Travellers forced into hotel quarantine after flying into Brisbane from Perth on Friday,caught in a change of COVID-19 restrictions while midair,will be let out.

  • byCloe Read andFelicity Caldwell
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Morrison needs ministers like Karen Andrews in his cabinet
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Morrison needs ministers like Karen Andrews in his cabinet

Newly appointed Karen Andrews has the courage to speak her mind and could help the Coalition win back women voters.

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Andrews’ shift in emphasis may be exactly what the Home Affairs behemoth needs

Andrews’ shift in emphasis may be exactly what the Home Affairs behemoth needs

Under Peter Dutton,Australians could have been forgiven for thinking the portfolio was only about stopping boats,catching terrorists and arresting paedophiles.

  • byAnthony Galloway
New Home Affairs Minister declares cyber security and female representation top priorities

New Home Affairs Minister declares cyber security and female representation top priorities

Karen Andrews stressed there would be no softening of Australia’s hardline stance on border protection as “a change of minister does not mean a change of policy”.

  • byAnthony Galloway
Fix it now,Prime Minister,or it might all be over

Fix it now,Prime Minister,or it might all be over

Scott Morrison reached the lowest point in his leadership this week by continuing to strike the wrong tone and policy in support of women.

  • byDavid Crowe
‘We tried it the other way’:Morrison and ministers push Liberals to adopt quotas

‘We tried it the other way’:Morrison and ministers push Liberals to adopt quotas

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has acknowledged the Liberal Party’s refusal to adopt quotas was not working in its efforts to recruit more women into Parliament.

  • byKatina Curtis