Simon Kent

The Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq has doubled its recruits from Australia in the past 12 months but the figure is expected to level off soon, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has revealed. Australia has been increasingly concerned about the ability

That didn’t take long. Last month German Chancellor Angela Merkel was throwing out welcome mats for Syrian refugees and promising to take 800,000. Now barely four weeks later German President Joachim Gauck is openly contradicting her unilateral offer and saying “there is a

Hungary is not interested in moralising EU “lectures” on compulsory migrant quotas and defends its rejection of more Middle Eastern refugees on the basis that it wants nothing to do with the West’s past “failed experiments” in multiculturalism. The country’s tough

The European Union (EU) should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity” of its member states. That is the considered view of UN special representative, Peter Sutherland, who will be a star turn at an international migration conference in Istanbul,

China has the fastest growing economy in the world, standing second only to the US as a financial powerhouse. Its wealth is building exponentially and the Asian giant is sufficiently advanced to have a space exploration program of its own. Still,

How easy is to be classified as a Syrian refugee in a Europe with porous borders, a gullible bureaucracy and a commitment to an open-ended asylum seeker intake? Quite easy, as it turns out. A video shot by Danny Ghosen for the

Groups of Syrian refugees arrived in the UK yesterday, the first since David Cameron pledged to help 20,000 of those who have fled their war-torn country for Middle East camps. We don’t know who they are, where they are or even how many there

Question the number of immigrants entering the UK and you are labelled a racist, xenophobe or a bigot. The Labour Party is especially fond of shouting these insults when it wants to shut down the immigration issue in the public arena. Remember how

A man from the tiny South Pacific island nation of Kiribati will be deported from New Zealand after the government refused to let him stay after his ‘climate’ refugee claim was rejected. Ioane Teitoa appealed to Associate Immigration Minister Craig Foss

The head of a housing association has called for a graphic “dead baby on the beach” opportunity to persuade a doubting public to accept social housing tenants as neighbours. Kate Davies, the £200,000-a-year CEO of Notting Hill Housing, said the deaths of “some

An astonishing 35 million migrants are heading for Europe, according to Hungary’s minister for foreign affairs and trade Peter Szijjártó. Speaking as the besieged country begins work on its second fence to stop migrants heading across its border he predicted the current

That didn’t take long. Jeremy Corbyn’s honeymoon with Labour faithful has already turned sour with almost three in four voters now thinking he looks anything like prime minister material. A survey of 2,000 people conducted by The Independent newspaper found that Mr

The EU logged 213,000 new migrant arrivals in April, May and June but only 44,000 were seeking a new life in Europe after fleeing the Syrian civil war. The latest figures from Eurostat, the EU’s official statistical agency, reveal migration from

The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London has defended itself against accusations by David Cameron that it had hosted a “hate preacher”. Instead, it claims one of the speakers named by the prime minister had visited the college

Hungary has been slammed by the UN and welfare agencies for its use of water cannon and tear gas against rioting migrants at its closed border on Wednesday. UN Human Rights Commission chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said that such treatment was “xenophobic

Zero. None. Zip. Nada. That is the sum total of refugees South Korea has accepted from the Syria conflict. Yet the world was forced to listen Wednesday as that country’s most prominent diplomat, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, excoriated Hungary for

A bare 12 months into the police investigation into Rotherham child sex exploitation (CSE) allegations and one startling new fact has emerged: it may cost nearly £7m this year alone as it potentially becomes ‘the single largest CSE investigation ever undertaken in

Well, that deteriorated quickly. Last week Angela Merkel was laying down the law to Europe and saying Germany was going to welcome 800,000 migrants across its border before the end of the year. The implication was that if Germany could do

So just where is Jean-Claude Juncker, the unelected and unaccountable head of the European Commission? I know, I know, as if anyone really cares. Still, as Europe plunges into its greatest crisis since the end of World War II and

Blame German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conspicuous display of moral vanity. Her decision to welcome unlimited numbers of Syrian migrants and assorted welfare seekers will today see Hungary swamped by a chaotic wave of up to 30,000 people as its hardline approach to border

German Chancellor Angela Merkel seems oblivious to the fact that what you reward you get more of. Witness the tens of thousands of welfare seekers cloaked as genuine migrants flooding Europe and now threatening the collapse of the borderless EU she has always proudly

At least five arrests were made in Frankfurt on Thursday night after a march by supporters of Turkish nationalism descended into bloody violence when they clashed with rival Kurd separatists. Video of the riot has emerged on the same day Germany announced it will

Hungary has sent 3,800 soldiers to hurry completion of a fence along its 175-kilometre border with Serbia, Defence Minister Istvan Simicsko said Friday. The first task is to finish the four-metre-high fence, which presently extends along parts of the border, while the

THE father of the three-year-old boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach was allegedly a people smuggler and was at the helm of the boat when it foundered, killing his son. Australian broadcaster Network Ten has aired allegations that