Michael Gordon is the political editor of The Age.
Michael Gordon Another Indonesian teenager was excused from court after people-smuggling charges were withdrawn.
Michael Gordon and Steve Butcher Indonesian teenager weeps with joy and relief after a Melbourne magistrate rules that he was a child when arrested on people-smuggling charges.
Michael Gordon Police would be banned from using wrist X-rays to decide whether crew on boats carrying asylum seekers to Australia are adults, under new legislation.
Michael Gordon It took less than one minute yesterday to end the ordeal of Dion Domun, a 15-year-old Indonesian boy who has spent more than eight months in immigration detention, contemplating the prospect of five...
Michael Gordon Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young wants to stop hundreds of so-called Indonesian people smugglers from serving mandatory five-year terms in Australian jails.
Michael Gordon Australian Federal Police will be asked to appear before a parliamentary inquiry into the imprisonment of Indonesian children in adult jails.
Michael Gordon Medhi Rezaiee never imagined one act of brotherly obligation would end with him being named as a people smuggler's agent.
Michael Gordon and Kirsty Needham Tensions have heightened on Christmas Island as ''extraction teams'' of security guards begin training exercises for the transfer of asylum seekers from the island's detention centres to Malaysia.
Michael Gordon Thirteen people were injured, windows were smashed and three asylum seekers were arrested during a riot at the crowded Christmas Island detention centre at the weekend.