Border force apologises for failing to prevent ‘misconduct’ after reports found bullying and harassment. By Paul Karp & Josh Taylor, The Guardian

In its report on the marine unit, the Australian Human Rights Commision found that 100% of women who responded to a survey “witnessed sex discrimination, sexual … and/or sex-based harassment” and 78% had personally experienced that behaviour.

Instances of alleged sexual discrimination in the Australian Border Force included misogynistic and belittling comments, withholding information from a pregnant officer, and comments from a team leader about wanting to “get rid of all his part-time workers” who were all women.

Border force apologises for failing to prevent ‘misconduct’ after reports found bullying and harassment. By Paul Karp & Josh Taylor, The Guardian

The boats have (almost) stopped; but Indonesia’s people smugglers are thriving? By Duncan Graham, Michael West Media

This ‘upturn’ in arrivals under the present government and the inclusion of a few Chinese has refuelled the Opposition’s allegation that Labor is soft on security and encouraging boat people. In response the government has hardened the Morrison-era line of ‘we stopped the boats’.

The boats have (almost) stopped; but Indonesia’s people smugglers are thriving? By Duncan Graham, Michael West Media

Housing, ankle bracelets and some other things that have very little to do with immigration. By Annabel Crabb, ABC News

We all love multiculturalism, in short, but we do reserve the right to lose our minds every now and again when something in particular riles us up.

Right now, there are two such political hotspots: a) the housing crisis, and b) the crimes allegedly committed by several dozen of the 153 non-citizens who the government was obliged to release following last year's High Court decision that governments did not have the right to detain a person forever.

These "crises" occupy an extraordinary bandwidth in political debate, especially since the budget. Neither of them is a crisis truly generated by immigration. They are, however, crises that push on the always half-open door of anti-immigrant feeling in this nation of people composed — more than 19 in every 20 of us — of immigrants.

Housing, ankle bracelets and some other things that have very little to do with immigration. By Annabel Crabb, ABC News

Number of asylum seekers on Nauru jumps as Australia transfers 37 people who arrived by boat. By Ben Doherty and Paul Karp, The Guardian

The number of asylum seekers on Nauru appears to have topped 100, with a further two groups of 37 people sent to the Pacific Island.

The Greens immigration spokesperson, David Shoebridge, accused the government of “disappearing” asylum seekers who come to Australia, and of displaying a “performative cruelty … that seems to have lost its moral compass”.

Number of asylum seekers on Nauru jumps as Australia transfers 37 people who arrived by boat. By Ben Doherty and Paul Karp, The Guardian

Report finds ‘clear need’ for an Australian Human Rights Act. What difference would it make? The Conversation

The recommendations are now with the federal government to consider and seek further advice. The report helpfully provides an example of what a human rights bill might look like, to promote understanding and discussion.

It is up to government to decide whether to accept the recommendations and, if so, for parliament to vote.

Report finds ‘clear need’ for an Australian Human Rights Act. What difference would it make? The Conversation

Tricked or forced out of Australia: the vulnerable women at the centre of a hidden domestic violence crisis. By Adeshola Ore, The Guardian

Amid a spate of horrific domestic violence killings in Australia, migration and trafficking experts say there is a hidden crisis where women, typically those already subject to domestic violence, are tricked, threatened or forced into leaving Australia. Technically called exit trafficking, the practice is illegal and is treated as a form of people trafficking under commonwealth law.

Tricked or forced out of Australia: the vulnerable women at the centre of a hidden domestic violence crisis. By Adeshola Ore, The Guardian

Living in a tent: the Melbourne family left homeless after a visa processing bungle. By Cait Kelly, The Guardian

Gurpreet Singh has lived and worked in Australia for 14 years.

Two of his three children with his wife, Jasbir, are Australian citizens and all three are enrolled in school.

But a visa processing delay led to Singh being classified as an unlawful migrant and losing his right to work. The family was left homeless, living out of a tent for almost a month. They are now surviving off charity.

Living in a tent: the Melbourne family left homeless after a visa processing bungle. By Cait Kelly, The Guardian

The Coalition’s attempts to derail Labor over immigration have just made Dutton the target. By Karen Middleton, The Guardian

Immigration is a wickedly complex and tough portfolio so the first test is: would anyone else handle it better than the beleaguered incumbent?

Giles’ gentle presentation makes him seem hesitant in the face of the Coalition onslaught and that leans some of his colleagues towards maybe. Others argue the problem is not the minister’s competence or communication but the circumstances – the high court’s November ruling that indefinite detention was unlawful and the home affairs department’s failure to properly notify him that some of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal decisions allowing violent criminals to stay in Australia might need attention.

The Coalition’s attempts to derail Labor over immigration have just made Dutton the target. By Karen Middleton, The Guardian

This Sydney psychologist spent weeks in Gaza. She saw children 'frozen' from starvation. By Rashida Yosufzai & Anna Henderson, SBS

When clinical psychologist Scarlett Wong began receiving children in Gaza for treatment, her team was told the kids needed help for developmental delay or autism. But their condition had nothing to do with either.
They were starving….

….But as her placement was wrapping up in Gaza, it was the final messages from her colleagues to the world that still haunt her.

"They said, 'Can you tell everybody who's helped us, thank you'," Wong remembers.
"And then they said, 'Tell your children about us, tell them about our lives and that we love life'

This Sydney psychologist spent weeks in Gaza. She saw children 'frozen' from starvation. By Rashida Yosufzai & Anna Henderson, SBS

ABC denies holding emergency talks after Laura Tingle’s ‘racist country’ comments criticised in Murdoch press. By Amanda Meade, The Guardian

On Sunday, while discussing the Coalition’s plans to cut immigration, Tingle said: “We are a racist country, let’s face it. We always have been, and it’s very depressing.”

ABC denies holding emergency talks after Laura Tingle’s ‘racist country’ comments criticised in Murdoch press. By Amanda Meades, The Guardian

After 20 years, I finally returned to the Kenyan refugee camp I’d left for a new life. By Nyadol Nyuon, SMH

After years of being stateless refugees, my family now enjoys the privileges and protections of citizenship. I hold an Australian passport, the only passport I have ever had.

Recently, I returned to the place that first formed me: Kakuma refugee camp, home to almost 300,000 people in northwest Kenya. I travelled with Australia for UNHCR – the national partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency – in a voluntary capacity. I did this because I want to use my story to help raise funds for refugee education programs.

After 20 years, I finally returned to the Kenyan refugee camp I’d left for a new life. By Nyadol Nyuon, SMH

Taj escaped the Taliban through an Australian program. Now, it's being scrapped. By Rayane Tamer, Jessica Bahr, SBS

The LEE program began in 2013 and offered resettlement for Afghan employees who were at risk of harm as a result of their work with the ADF.

It has helped 900 former workers settle in Australia since its inception, but as it draws to a close, there are still many former interpreters stuck in Afghanistan who say their lives are at risk.

Now, they can do nothing but hide, and they say the Australian government has abandoned them.

Taj escaped the Taliban through an Australian program. Now, it's being scrapped. By Rayane Tamer, Jessica Bahr, SBS

The migration debate is heating up, but will the war of words lead to action? By Tom Crowley, ABC News

“ Regardless of who the migrants are, just by having more you benefit because you don't need twice the resources to sustain that population. You also have a larger customer base. There's all kinds of benefits that come from size.

"That's why people move from country to city, it's exactly the same argument there as the argument internationally… There's also international evidence that shows migrants add to productivity, because more people means more ideas."

Dr Ryan Edwards, a migration expert at the Australian National University, warned against letting short-term concerns about housing distract from this long-term benefit. "I think it's a risky game for politicians to play."

Similar sentiment is almost universal among migration experts. And politicians on both sides of politics are also happy to agree that migration has long-run benefits.

But as on many issues, the politics can tend to focus on the short-term.

The migration debate is heating up, but will the war of words lead to action? By Tom Crowley, ABC News

Serco concealed ‘inappropriate’ use of firefighting equipment to control Christmas Island riots. By Paul Karp, The Guardian

“Firefighting devices were discharged directly on to people in detention and, in one disturbance, into enclosed areas where people had retreated, including people who had not been involved in the disturbances,” the ombudsman said.

A spokesperson for Serco said: “The safety of all detainees in our care is of paramount importance to Serco. “Our priority is always to treat people in our care with dignity and respect in a safe and secure environment.

Serco concealed ‘inappropriate’ use of firefighting equipment to control Christmas Island riots. By Paul Karp, The Guardian

Plating it forward. By Leisa Scott & Vanessa Gorman, Australian Story’s “Off Menu: Shaun Christie-David” on ABC iview

Shaun Christie-David can still picture the bin where he used to ditch his dhal sandwiches, the furtive act of a teenage boy of migrant parents desperate to fit in.

Today, that dhal, Amma’s Dhal, takes pride of place on the menu of Colombo Social, the first of Shaun Christie-David’s string of Sydney-based restaurants and social enterprises that celebrate multiculturalism and diversity, giving work and purpose to refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, older women, people with a disability and former prisoners.

Plating it forward. By Leisa Scott & Vanessa Gorman, Australian Story’s “Off Menu: Shaun Christie-David” on ABC iview

Peter Dutton’s migration cuts would cost budget $34bn over coming decades, thinktank calculates. By Paul Karp & Amy Remeikis, The Guardian

The Grattan Institute estimate backs the treasurer Jim Chalmers’ statement that Dutton’s proposed migration cuts would cost “billions”, which the opposition leader dismissed on Monday as “voodoo economics”.

Peter Dutton’s migration cuts would cost budget $34bn over coming decades, thinktank calculates. By Paul Karp & Amy Remeikis, The Guardian

Exclusive: Repatriation of ISIS brides shelved. By Jason Koutsoukis, The Saturday Paper

Two senior government sources with direct knowledge of the issue told The Saturday Paper that while the government had not formally decided against repatriating the so-called ISIS brides and their children, the prime minister had made it “very clear” that unless there was a dramatic deterioration in the security situation in and around the camps, the issue “would not be revisited before the election”.

“Not bringing these women and children who are Australian citizens home is nothing other than a complete failure of political will,” says Save the Children Australia chief executive Mat Tinkler. “That and nothing else.”

Exclusive: Repatriation of ISIS brides shelved. By Jason Koutsoukis, The Saturday Paper