Australian Immigration Daily News

Between 29 March 2015 and 1 April 2015, a number of blog posts and Tweets were published by Ms Liana Allan and Mr Christopher Levingston on the Migration Alliance Incorporated website and Twitter feed. The blog posts and Tweets, in the first instance, concerned the content of a lecture given by Ms Duncan to a class of students completing the ANU visa course 8168 at UTS on 29 March 2015. Subsequent blog posts and Tweets related to Ms Duncan's rebuttal of the initial publications.

The blog posts and Tweets have since been removed by us and we do not wish to "reignite the fire" by restating here, in any detail, the contents of those blog posts and Tweets.

While we based the comments we posted on what was reported to us by a student as having been said by Ms Duncan during the lecture, we accept that what we published went further than what we now understand Ms Duncan to have actually said. Further, we accept that we took Ms Duncan's words out of context and may have given them a meaning that was not intended by Ms Duncan. This, in turn, means we unfairly characterised Ms Duncan's subsequent rebuttal.

In addition to having already removed the posts and Tweets, we accordingly wish to retract what we published in this regard.

We apologise unreservedly for the distress and hurt Ms Duncan has suffered as a result of the publications.