Welcome to the Aradale Lunatic Asylum, Ararat, Victoria, allegedly the most haunted place in Australia. ‘Over ten thousand people died in Aradale, so the place is full of ghosts,’ Buchanan said.

As administrations of both parties have failed to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, a reckoning for the asylum system, which some say is overdue, seems inevitable. By Jazmine Ulloa and ...