Max Walden

Gov’t wel­com­ing more per­ma­nent mi­grants to ease short­ages, but ac­tivists say work­ers on tem­po­rary visas need more help.

Sadam Ab­dusalam nev­er gave up the strug­gle to get his wife and son out of Chi­na and is telling their sto­ry in a book.

Sadam Ab­dusalam says he won’t rest un­til his wife, Nadi­la, and son, Lut­fy, are al­lowed to leave Chi­na and fam­i­ly unit­ed.

Po­lice raids against two news out­lets re­new calls for safe­guards for whis­tle-blow­ers and free­dom of speech pro­tec­tions.

Thou­sands of Chi­nese study­ing in Aus­tralia at the time of the 1989 killings were al­lowed to stay and build new lives.

Ten men have tried killing them­selves since Aus­tralia’s con­ser­v­a­tive gov­ern­ment re­turned to pow­er, refugees say.

PM hails ‘mir­a­cle’ win af­ter Lib­er­al-Na­tion­al coali­tion out­per­forms exit polls that pre­dict­ed a La­bor vic­to­ry.

Rul­ing Lib­er­al-Na­tion­al coali­tion and La­bor Par­ty are neck-and-neck, ac­cord­ing to the Elec­toral Com­mis­sion pro­jec­tions.

En­er­gy and glob­al warm­ing de­bates have dom­i­nat­ed Aus­tralia’s elec­tion cam­paign, with many vot­ers call­ing for change.

The op­po­si­tion La­bor Par­ty is ex­pect­ed to win Sat­ur­day’s elec­tion, with cli­mate change emerg­ing as a key is­sue.