Flip through the recruitment ad pages of leading newspapers or websites and chances are you would be bored to death unless you are a desperate job-seeker. The desperate are going to read anything,

Australia on Friday loosened its highly charged policy of mandatory detention for asylum seekers who arrive by boat, freeing 27 from overcrowded, prison-like conditions and estimating more than

Australia's prime minister has scrapped a plan to send asylum seekers to Malaysia. The move keeps her fragile government from becoming the first in 82 years to have legislation rejected by

The Australian government wants to forge ahead with its policy of deporting asylum seekers to other countries to deter them from trying to reach Australia, despite its highest court scuttling a