This policy brief examines the impacts of tightening family visa pathways for migrant grandparents and transnational family life.

The inquiry relates, in the first instance, to two interventions by the then Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, the Hon Peter Dutton MP, under section 195A of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act).

Introducing yet another special agricultural employment visa might destroy the good things about the ones we've got, writes Stephen Howes.

Asked whether he would consider a New Zealand offer to resettle asylum seekers from Nauru and Manus Island, Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said the plan would be a "complete disaster", and claimed people smugglers would target New Zealand because

The focus of this study is the direct cost of offences committed by organised crime offenders, and the cost of prison sentences associated with these offences.