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Australia’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) is set to get greater powers in the fight against individuals and employers who do not have the correct visas in place.

AUSTRALIA'S promise to rapidly deport failed asylum seekers to Sri Lanka is failing to deter people from boarding boats, with some even considering trying again after being sent home.

More asylum seekers have arrived on boats since Labor came to power in 2007 than people live in the remote community of Alice Springs, the opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, said on Tuesday.

THE Gillard government appears set to reveal within days how its ''no advantage test'' will be applied to almost 7000 asylum seekers who have arrived since it announced the re-opening of processing centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

Australia yesterday informed would be illegal migrants from Sri Lanka to its shores that there was no money or assistance for deportees.

The chief rights advocate for the United Nations has expressed alarm at a new push by Australian immigration authorities to immediately reject a number of Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

THE public is being misled about migration by scared politicians and talkback radio, leading economist Chris Richardson says.

SYDNEY: Another group of some 30 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who had arrived in Australia by boat have been sent home.