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Republican senator Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma.

‘MAGA warrior’, ex-MMA fighter: This is Trump’s pick to run homeland security

Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin has been a staunch defender of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

  • Madeleine Ngo

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The Shen Yun group. pictured performing in 2025, received threatening emails.

Keyboard warriors and worse: Threat to politicians from the public is greater than ever

The bomb threat that forced Anthony Albanese to evacuate The Lodge is the latest sign of a political climate growing steadily harsher, where threats are harder to dismiss as isolated incidents.

  • Rob Harris

Who are the IS brides trying to get home?

Eleven family groups – 34 individuals – who have been stuck in Syrian internment camps for years are trying to make their way home. Why were they in Syria in the first place?

  • Michael Bachelard
An unidentified boy on Wednesday in a section of the Al Roj camp in Syria housing Australian family members of suspected Islamic State militants.

Bring these Australian children home, PM. They did not make their own beds

Preventing the return of women and children trapped in Syria will not make Australia safer.

  • Fionnuala Ni Aolain and Ben Saul
Australian families at the al-Roj refugee camp.

‘That was a long way of saying yes’: Tony Burke admits ISIS brides have Australian passports

The home affairs minister earlier confirmed he had used a temporary exclusion order to bar one of the 34 Australian citizens from returning home.

  • Michael Bachelard, Brittany Busch, Mohammed Hassan and Alexander Darling
Health Minister Mark Butler.

‘We’re taking it seriously’: Australia monitoring India’s outbreak of deadly Nipah virus

However, infectious diseases experts have questioned why recent cases have caused such a response abroad.

  • Brittany Busch and Kate Aubusson
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Australians to be forced to provide their social media to enter the US

Applying for a visa waiver is also set to get more complicated under the new plan, with authorities seeking to collect far more detailed information including biometrics, IP addresses and metadata and family histories.

  • Michael Koziol
The SmartGate system has caused airport queues in Sydney and Melbourne.

What could fix airports’ long arrival queues? A race for the Olympics

Passengers arriving after 14-hour-flights must often wait 40 minutes in queues to scan their passports in kiosks before exiting the airport.

  • Chris Zappone
Andrew Hastie says the latest incident represented another failure in the Albanese government’s record on border protection.

‘Who are these people?’ Hastie sounds alarm after Chinese nationals found wandering in remote Aboriginal community

It is the second time a group of foreign nationals have been detained after arriving by boat in the remote Kimberley region since February 2024.

  • Hannah Murphy
WA police handed over the six men, who were found wandering in the remote Aboriginal community Kalumburu earlier this week, to border authorities.
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Border authorities detain foreign nationals found wandering in WA community

WA police handed over the six men, who were found wandering in the remote Aboriginal community Kalumburu earlier this week, to border authorities.