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'Things are going to get worse': cyber shield unveiled

A cyber strategy focused on protecting small and medium businesses against an increasing number of attacks has been released by the federal government.

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Stop making trouble over warship, China tells Australia

The prime minister is resisting opposition pressure to reveal if he raised an incident with a Chinese warship when he spoke to Xi Jinping on the weekend.

AAP

If new migrant rules are considered punishment, Labor’s new law could be vulnerable to challenges

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said on Sunday the government expected to continue to tinker with immigration detention laws, telling Sky News: ‘This is not over.’

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Police push deportation over court

Police in NSW and Victoria have lobbied the federal government to deport non-citizens accused of crimes — even before they’ve gone to court, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is being hammered by the opposition over whether or not he raised with Xi Jinping Australian Navy divers being injured by Chinese…

Crikey

Small businesses to get free cyber education boost

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil has unveiled millions of dollars worth of new funding to help small businesses protect themselves from cyber attacks.

AAP

Terrorism protection laws floated for former detainees

Terrorism laws allowing authorities to keep dangerous people behind bars are being floated as a possible way to lock up freed immigration detainees.

AAP

Incompetence, culture wars and conservatism dominate our political cycle

Will voters reward an effort to govern well, or will they be keener on following Peter Dutton into culture wars? The opposition leader wants to find out.

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What does a landmark ruling mean for immigration detention in Australia?

Australia can no longer hold visa-less non-citizens indefinitely. That meansthe end of ministers ‘playing God’.

Crikey

The ScoMo-BoJo travelling show

Former PM Scott Morrison is in Israel with former UK PM Boris Johnson ‘to demonstrate solidarity’ with its people, despite acknowledging that he ‘no longer speaks for Australia’, and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is furious that Shore principal John Collier described Lilie James’ killer as ‘an absolute delight’ and ‘not…

Crikey

Revealed: Home Affairs paying to access controversial tool tracking mobile phone movements

Agency has had access to Locate X since at least 2021, documents show, amid questions about use of data that may contain people’s sensitive information

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Why has the government let a Chinese-owned company hold on to its Darwin Port lease?

Crikey clarifies why Anthony Albanese launched another review into the Chinese lease on the port, and why the outcome was to change nothing.

Crikey

Everything you need to know from day one of Senate estimates

Pezzullo on full pay, Infrastructure dept's 'hotties list', and more.

The Canberra Times

The idea of better government can’t be dismissed as an elite myth for delusional progressives

Recent history has shown that those who come to power by rejecting the idea of good government are incapable of governing at all.

Crikey

Are Australian airports leaving passengers with accessibility needs behind?

The disability royal commission suggests people with disabilities still face humiliating and dehumanising problems when flying.

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What brings ASIO out of the shadows?

Spy boss Mike Burgess wants calm rhetoric on ‘both sides’ of the Israel-Palestine debate. But what spurs ASIO heads to publicly address a threat?

The Conversation

Why the government's plan to overhaul the asylum system is a smart use of resources – and might just work

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles today announced significant changes aimed at restoring the integrity of Australia’s refugee protection system.

AAP

Neo-nazis and extremists a concern ahead of voice vote

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil says she is "really worried" about the risks neo-Nazi groups and extremists pose in the lead-up to the voice referendum.

Crikey

Dutton’s debacle: How the faux-tough immigration cops lost control of our borders

Peter Dutton presided over a department that enabled organised crime, sex traffickers and illegal immigrants to treat our borders as porous.

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Clare O’Neil puts the boot into Dutton

‘Tough guy’ Peter Dutton was soft on immigration compliance, starving it of resources and funding, says Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil, and WA Police refused to attend an inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children.

The Conversation

Visa exploitation review urges tougher penalties and a ban on temporary migrants in sex work. Would this solve the problem?

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil has railed against the exploitation of Australia’s migration system, saying it has been “used to perpetrate some of the worst crimes to humanity, sexual slavery and human trafficking”.

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Peter Dutton Called ‘A Great Fraud’ Who Ignored ‘Grotesque Abuses’ By The Home Affairs Minister

Peter Dutton has been called out in parliament as 'a great fraud' for his ignorance during his time as Home Affairs Minister.

Crikey

King of the fossil-fuel industry

Resources Minister Madeleine King says cutting Australia’s gas supply would ‘worsen poverty and inequality’ and lead to ‘shortages … and high prices’, and independent Senator Lidia Thorpe says Dan Andrews quitting six days after announcing his plan to raze and redevelop 44 public housing towers was a ‘dog act’.

The Canberra Times

Who is Mike Pezzullo and how did he end up here?

'Undone by a mobile phone' - the steps and side steps of an 'untouchable' public servant.

Crikey

From Pezzullo to PwC, people really like failing their own very public standards

It has been an incredible week for the glorious political art of doing the exact things one has loudly condemned in the past.

Crikey

Clive Palmer takes No for an answer

Miner Clive Palmer will use $2 million of his billions to back the No vote in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum, and Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo gave British American Tobacco access to one of his department’s senior customs officials.

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