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

Among the collateral damage of an early election – especially a double dissolution election – is the work of parliamentary committees. At 9am on 9 May, each and every committee of the forty-fourth parliament ceased to exist and many inquiries lapsed, their investigations unfinished. Having had fair warning of Turnbull’s intentions, other committees rushed out...

If a temporary migrant has a baby with an Australian, the baby is a citizen. But if the couple splits up, the foreign parent doesn't have the right to stay in Australia and stay close to their child. It's often up to the Immigration Minister to decide whether or not it is in the public...

Peter Costello told Pacific leaders that Australia doesn't take temporary migrants. Not true, writes Peter Mares.