Help for athletes, bans for others: unpacking Australia’s complex, chaotic migration developments

By Melissa Phillips, Lecturer, Western Sydney University

The past 48 hours in Australia has showcased the dramatic complexities of the country’s migration and asylum landscape, and the power of ministerial intervention in this federal portfolio.

On the one hand, the federal government pulled out all stops to safeguard members of the Iranian women’s soccer team from returning to Iran – after competing in Australia at the Asian Women’s Cup – by providing them with refugee status.

On the other hand, as this…

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