Last chance for Bridging Visa Holders

Bridging Visas

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UP TO 7500 boat people living in Australia have been given a four-month deadline to lodge claims for asylum or they will have their welfare axed and be booted out of Australia.


The Sunday Telegraph can reveal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has issued an ­ultimatum to thousands of asylum seekers who have been ­living in Australia for as long as five years without progressing their claims for refugee status.

Mr Dutton said it was the last chance for the boat people to prove they were refugees.
Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton
Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton Source: AAP


TAX deputy commissioner Michael Cranston was recorded in a series of police phone taps telling his son Adam they “have to think of a strategy” in the weeks leading up to his son’s arrest over a $165m tax fraud.


In the calls Adam did not detail the ­extent of the ­alleged operation but Mr Cranston’s ­fatherly advice ­triggered the events that now threaten to destroy his career.

Australian Federal Police investigators taped the senior tax investigator in three phone calls on April 28 and May 2 in which he warned his son Adam, “You could be the subject of search warrants,” but added he was lucky the “coppers” were too busy to take any more ATO referrals.
ATO's Deputy Commissioner Michael Cranston
ATO's Deputy Commissioner Michael Cranston arrested Source: The New Daily


Meantime, the Australian Medical Association has called for an end to the "damaging" public debate on legalising gay marriage.

President Michael Gannon has written letters to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten calling for a bipartisan approach on the issue.

He has told the A-B-C, stigma against members of the gay, lesbian, transgender community has health impacts.



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