Political geography

Leadership in the new Department of Immigration and Border Protection — same name; new flavour — requires diverse experience rather than long service, its secretary says. Those who’ve given decades to the old Immigration and Customs are less useful.

Trade with Asia may be booming but Australian business invests more in New Zealand than all of south-east Asia, revealing a woeful level of real commercial engagement with the booming Asian region.

Immigration officials confirm the theft of highly sensitive data on Nauru is under investigation by the AFP, as well as the Moss inquiry into allegations that detainees were abused.