Tony Abbott has vowed turning asylum seekers' boats back to Indonesia, despite brutality claims and warnings of naval conflict.

An Italian MP has “blacked up” to deliver a staggering anti-immigration rant in the country’s parliament.

Australia’s Immigration Minister is receiving tampons and sanitary towels in his post box from protesters against alleged restrictions on sanitary products for refugees.

"Megaupload knowing created and and facilitated the distribution of stolen property." The FBI does a tell-all interview on TV's 60 Minutes.

A convicted German child sex offender tried to abscond to NZ but was returned by officials here to serve his sentence in Germany.

Nearly 800 people were prevented from entering New Zealand over the past year.

Turning the Coalition's best known three-word slogan into reality was always going to be a tough ask for the Abbott Government in Australia.

New Zealand's inbound migration remained elevated in November as new migrants kept arriving and fewer locals drifted across the Tasman.

The "secrets-for-brownie points" case has been escalated to Customs Minister Maurice Williamson - but he says it has nothing to do with him.

A senior Customs official told colleagues in charge of highly personal information they could earn "brownie points"if they passed secrets to the FBI.

Auckland house and apartment building is at a 5-year high, with nearly 5700 dwelling consents issued in the year to October.

Our house prices are high, our wages are low - so why is the world coming home to New Zealand?

NZ migration and corporate relocation specialist, Woburn International, has beaten rivals from 165 countries to be named the Cartus Global Destination Service Provider of 2013.

Editorial: It has been a long wait for a clear measure of New Zealand's population. Now the census confirms it's 4.24m, it's time to think about how to increase that headcount.

A Kiribati man's bid to become the world's first climate change refugee in New Zealand has been rejected for a third time.

A bizarre love rectangle was outlined in a case before a Migration Review Tribunal of Australia hearing this month.

NZ gained a net 3,000 permanent and long-term migrants last month, the most since June 2003.

Immigration New Zealand has a secret blacklist with the names of 185 lawyers and immigration advisers it claims have questionable characters.

Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse says officials are looking at claims that asylum seekers in the Middle East have bought false New Zealand visas and passports.

Parliament has been interrupted by a heated protest by a group of people demanding justice on an immigration issue, with security struggling to remove several of them.

A Green Party MP is making her way back to New Zealand after being detained by Sri Lankan authorities and questioned about her visa.

Green Party MP Jan Logie says she is "safe'' after being detained by Sri Lankan authorities and her passport confiscated.

Immigration officials will consider removing GPs from a skills shortage list as newly qualified immigrant doctors struggle to find jobs in hospitals.

The Ombudsman has found Immigration NZ was wrong to reject the partners of Indian migrants - now hundreds of visas need to be reassessed.