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Assistant Minister for Citizenship, Customs and Multicultural Affairs Julian Hill.

Should tobacconists even exist? Minister poses radical question as illegal cigarette sales soar

“Hitting criminals where it hurts means using every tool: more rapidly taking their profits, cars, cash, houses, boats and toys away,” the Labor assistant minister said.

  • Paul Sakkal and Shane Wright

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A majority of Australians think that the nation’s net migration and permanent migration levels are too high.

‘Clean up the rorts’: New rules to crack down on dodgy visa agents

Labor’s new measures will aim to improve integrity in the migration system as fresh polling shows most Australians still think numbers are too high.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce and party leader Pauline Hanson.

Hanson wants referendum to avoid hate speech laws

The anti-immigrant populist leader has used online posts recently to falsely claim Labor’s post-Bondi hate crimes laws were being used by “political elites” to jail her.

  • Paul Sakkal
A bushfire map from NBC in 2013 suggested the entire country was going up in smoke.

What do migration debates and bushfires have in common? They both scare off foreign students

Government messaging must be consistent and disciplined because would-be students – and their governments – are reading.

  • Sally Rawsthorne