The Latest Breaking News from Home Affairs

A Department of Home Affairs report confirms the office of former prime minister Scott Morrison instructed the public service to reveal the interception of a suspected asylum seeker boat on election day.

Offenders may be kept in prison after serving sentence, but wrongly made order ‘almost always amounts to arbitrary detention’, rights group argues

The Albanese government has launched a concerted effort to nip in the bud a threatened resumption of the people smuggling trade, with a visit by Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil to Sri Lanka and a $50 million aid package for that economically-beleaguered country.

The Muragappen family are waiting in Brisbane for their return flight to Biloela on Friday after a two-year ordeal with immigration authorities.

Australia’s highest court landmark ruling Wednesday will curtail how governments can deal with extremists

The High Court of Australia overturns a key plank of the federal government's foreign fighter laws, ruling that the consequence of stripping someone's citizenship without them facing trial on Australian soil is so serious it should only be handled by a judge.

The new government will also dilute the power of the massive Department of Home Affairs, but Anthony Albanese's initial shake-up is modest in scope.

Good morning, early birds. New Resources Minister Madeleine King has confirmed Labor will support WA’s $16.5 billion offshore Scarborough gas project, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has removed the Australian Federal Police from the Home Affairs portfolio. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

The Australian Federal Police will move out of Home Affairs in an overhaul of several commonwealth bodies under Anthony Albanese’s new Labor government.