Embattled Immigration Minister Andrew Giles has issued a new legal guidance to replace his contentious Direction 99 which allowed dozens of serious criminals to stay in Australia. Under the change, community safety will be the overriding factor when immigration officials and tribunals consider whether to revoke or reinstate an individual’sContinue Reading
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal applied the controversial Ministerial Direction 99 to overturn half of the government’s initial deportation orders for non-citizens on character ground since July last year. The statistic was revealed in a senate estimates hearing held on Friday afternoon by the AAT’s registrar Michael Hawkins as the governmentContinue Reading
Immigration minister Andrew Giles has revealed the government is tracking 153 immigration detainees including accused rapists and murderers using taxpayer-funded drones. The minister has revealed for the first time that the government has taken drastic measures to keep tabs on the scores of detainees who the government was forced toContinue Reading
A victim of the fatal turbulence experienced on the Singapore Airlines flight is calling for he and his wife to be medically evacuated, with the couple currently stuck in a Bangkok hospital. Australian man Keith Davis, and his wife Kerry Jordan had finished their holiday in the UK, and wereContinue Reading
A dozen Australians remain in hospital after a Singapore Airlines flight suffered extreme turbulence during a flight from London this week, with three in intensive care. The Boeing 777 made an emergency landing at Bangkok on Tuesday after the plane dropped 6000ft in only a few minutes, crashing passengers upContinue Reading
Australians have been left dumbfounded after a bird spotter’s footage went viral, revealing there are kookaburras living in the UK. James Cook, a “wildlife content creator” with a passion for finding “animals where they shouldn’t be”, shared a clip of not one, but two, of the native Australian birds sittingContinue Reading
A man who chopped his wife’s body into more than 200 pieces before dumping her remains in a river in a reusable shopping bag has been jailed. Nicholas Metson, 28, stabbed Holly Bramley, 26, to death at their flat in Lincoln, in the UK, then hacked her body in theContinue Reading
When Abhishek Malik spotted a small sore on his tongue, cancer was the furthest thing from his mind. The healthy 22-year-old uni student from Sydney thought he must have simply bitten himself. His doctor also wasn’t too concerned. “It was a tiny two-millimetre bite mark,” Mr Malik told news.com.au. “IContinue Reading
A Ballarat man will face court charged over the death of young teacher Hannah McGuire, whose body was found in a burnt-out car in regional Victoria. Lachie Young, 21, will front the Ballarat Magistrates Court on Tuesday after being charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Police will allege inContinue Reading
Three men who are completely unknown to each other have been charged under novel NSW laws after they allegedly displayed a Nazi salute at a football grand final. Nikola Marko Gasparovic, Dominik Sieben and Marijan Lisica separately attended the highly-charged Australia Cup final between Sydney United 58 and Macarthur onContinue Reading