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December 23, 2025

Labor’s changes to listing hate groups will target Islamist and far-right extremists operating just inside the limits of law

Home affairs minister says the proposal would clamp down on groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir and the National Socialist Network

December 19, 2025

New hate speech laws cracking down on ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric will go to constitutional limit, Tony Burke says

Home affairs minister would not say whether specific phrases such as ‘globalise the intifada’ would be banned under proposed laws

December 06, 2025

Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’

US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is...

November 20, 2025

Secret translation of Nauruan president’s interview on NZYQ deal with Australia to stay suppressed for decade

Penny Wong says translation notes were ‘taken hastily’ by official who was not accredited translator and were ‘for internal purposes only’

November 19, 2025

Tony Burke reviewing anti-hate laws and says South African neo-Nazi will not be allowed back into Australia

Home affairs minister’s comments come as NSW moves to ban white supremacist chants after neo-Nazi protest

November 11, 2025

Nauruan president makes surprise visit to meet Albanese government as another man quietly deported to Pacific island

President David Adeang was spotted by ABC cameras as Nauru received its fourth member from the NZYQ cohort

November 04, 2025

Albanese government deports two more men to Nauru in secret, infuriating human rights advocates

Exclusive: Sources say a Sudanese national and another man were chartered to the former regional processing centre last week, joining one other person

October 28, 2025

First person arrives on Nauru triggering Australia’s $2.5bn deal with island nation

Deal between federal government and Nauru expected to last 30 years and apply to around 350 people released under high court’s NZYQ ruling

August 30, 2025

Australian government criticised over ‘disgraceful’ $400m deal to deport foreign-born former detainees to Nauru

An agreement relating to the NZYQ cohort, who previously faced indefinite immigration detention, was signed by home affairs minister Tony Burke on...

August 18, 2025

Far-right Israeli politician barred from Australia ahead of speaking tour

Simcha Rothman - a supporter of plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza - was scheduled to appear at events in Sydney and Melbourne

August 07, 2025

Albanese government has no knowledge of Trump administration threat to deport Iranian man to Australia

Reza Zavvar has lived in US for 40 years but is being held in detention due to marijuana conviction from the 1990s

Tony-burke Articles

Labor’s changes to listing hate groups will target Islamist and far-right extremists operating just inside the limits of law

New hate speech laws cracking down on ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric will go to constitutional limit, Tony Burke says

Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’

Secret translation of Nauruan president’s interview on NZYQ deal with Australia to stay suppressed for decade

Tony Burke reviewing anti-hate laws and says South African neo-Nazi will not be allowed back into Australia

Nauruan president makes surprise visit to meet Albanese government as another man quietly deported to Pacific island

Albanese government deports two more men to Nauru in secret, infuriating human rights advocates

First person arrives on Nauru triggering Australia’s $2.5bn deal with island nation

Australian government criticised over ‘disgraceful’ $400m deal to deport foreign-born former detainees to Nauru

Far-right Israeli politician barred from Australia ahead of speaking tour

Albanese government has no knowledge of Trump administration threat to deport Iranian man to Australia