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Australian Book Review is an Australian arts and literary review. [1] Created in 1961, [2] ABR is an independent non-profit organisation that publishes articles, reviews, commentaries, essays, and new writing. The aims of the magazine are "to foster high critical standards, to provide an outlet for fine new writing, and to contribute to the ...
Following the 2022 Australian federal election held on 21 May 2022, the newly-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese indicated that while the Section 501 deportation policy would remain, he was open to "tweaking" the policy to take into account the amount of time an individual had lived in Australia. In addition, New Zealand Prime Minister ...
The Australian Government is providing an additional $1 million in funding for emergency financial assistance in 2024-25 to people from significantly affected areas of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories who have arrived in Australia on temporary visas and who have been assessed to be in financial hardship.
The portfolio and department were created in July 1945, during the last months of World War II.Previously, immigration affairs were handled by the Minister for Home Affairs (1901–1932) and the Minister for the Interior (1932–1945), except that between January 1925 and January 1928 Victor Wilson and Thomas Paterson were Ministers for Markets and Migration.
With the federation of the Australian colonies into a single nation, one of the first acts of the new Commonwealth Government was the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, otherwise known as the White Australia policy, which was a strengthening and unification of disparate colonial policies designed to restrict non-White settlement. Because of ...
The list also includes one book that won two categories: Romance queen Emily Henry's "Funny Story" was readers' pick for both "Best Romance" and "Best Audiobook," which was a newly introduced ...
The current minister is Tony Burke of the Labor Party, who has held the position since July 2024 in the Albanese ministry. The current Department of Home Affairs was created in December 2017. The first department with that name was created in 1901, as one of the original six departments created at Federation , and was responsible for a wide ...
The British government announced tough new immigration rules Monday that it says will reduce the number of people able to move to the U.K. each year by hundreds of thousands. Home Secretary James ...