

- Title
IMMIGRATION: VISA APPROVALS
- Database
Senate Hansard
- Date
01-04-2004
- Source
Senate
- Parl No.
40
- Electorate
- Interjector
- Page
22547
- Party
- Presenter
- Status
Final
- Question No.
- Questioner
- Responder
- Speaker
- Stage
- Type
- Context
Miscellaneous
- System Id
chamber/hansards/2004-04-01/0013
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Hansard
- Start of Business
- NOTICES
- BUSINESS
- LEAVE OF ABSENCE
- NOTICES
- HAMER, SIR RUPERT
- HEALTH AND AGEING: AGED CARE
- PARLIAMENT HOUSE: ART COLLECTION
- UNITED NATIONS: HUMAN RIGHTS
- IMMIGRATION: VISA APPROVALS
- BUSINESS
- COMMITTEES
- PARLIAMENTARY ZONE
- ENVIRONMENT: ENDANGERED SPECIES
- FORESTRY: REGIONAL FOREST AGREEMENTS
- COMMITTEES
- HEALTH: DISABILITY SERVICES
- COMMITTEES
- BUDGET
- COMMITTEES
- BUDGET
- COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL AMENDMENT (REPRESENTATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) BILL 2004
- LAW AND JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2004
- BILLS RETURNED FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- BUSINESS
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CUSTOMS TARIFF AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 2003
EXCISE TARIFF AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 1) 2003 - TEXTILE, CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR STRATEGIC INVESTMENT PROGRAM AMENDMENT BILL 2004
- BUSINESS
- INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AMENDMENT BILL 2004
- BUSINESS
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION) AMENDMENT BILL 2004
- COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL AMENDMENT (REPRESENTATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) BILL 2004
- TAXATION LAWS (CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT FACILITY SUPPORT) BILL 2003
- SUPERANNUATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (FAMILY LAW) BILL 2002
- DAIRY PRODUCE AMENDMENT BILL 2003
- REPRESENTATION OF VICTORIA
- SENATORS SWORN
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QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
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Taxation: Family Payments
(Collins, Sen Jacinta, Patterson, Sen Kay) -
Australian Defence Force: Deployment
(Ferguson, Sen Alan, Hill, Sen Robert) -
Australian Defence Force: Deployment
(Evans, Sen Chris, Hill, Sen Robert) -
Taxation: Family Payments
(Knowles, Sen Susan, Patterson, Sen Kay) -
Family and Community Services
(Faulkner, Sen John, Patterson, Sen Kay) -
Indigenous Affairs: Health
(Ridgeway, Sen Aden, Campbell, Sen Ian) -
National Security: Intelligence
(Ray, Sen Robert, Hill, Sen Robert) -
Resources: Renewable Energy
(Lees, Sen Meg, Minchin, Sen Nick) -
Indigenous Affairs: ATSIS
(O'Brien, Sen Kerry, Vanstone, Sen Amanda) -
Immigration: Economic Impact
(Santoro, Sen Santo, Vanstone, Sen Amanda) -
Family and Community Services
(Collins, Sen Jacinta, Patterson, Sen Kay)
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Taxation: Family Payments
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: ADDITIONAL ANSWERS
- PARLIAMENTARY LANGUAGE
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: ADDITIONAL ANSWERS
- COMMITTEES
- GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION) AMENDMENT BILL 2004
- AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FORESTRY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 2003
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COMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 2003
- Second Reading
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In Committee
- Greig, Sen Brian
- Bishop, Sen Mark
- Kemp, Sen Rod
- Kemp, Sen Rod
- Bishop, Sen Mark
- Greig, Sen Brian
- Greig, Sen Brian
- Bishop, Sen Mark
- Kemp, Sen Rod
- Greig, Sen Brian
- Bishop, Sen Mark
- Kemp, Sen Rod
- Greig, Sen Brian
- Bishop, Sen Mark
- Kemp, Sen Rod
- Bishop, Sen Mark
- Greig, Sen Brian
- Kemp, Sen Rod
- Bishop, Sen Mark
- Greig, Sen Brian
- Kemp, Sen Rod
- Third Reading
- BILLS RETURNED FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- MIGRATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 1) 2002
- FAMILY ASSISTANCE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (EXTENSION OF TIME LIMITS) BILL 2003
- BUSINESS
- KYOTO PROTOCOL RATIFICATION BILL 2003 [NO. 2]
- APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) BILL (NO. 2) 2003-2004
- APPROPRIATION BILL (NO. 3) 2003-2004
- APPROPRIATION BILL (NO. 4) 2003-2004
- ADVANCE TO THE FINANCE MINISTER
- COMMITTEES
- NOTICES
- HUMAN RIGHTS: KURDS
- COMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 2003
- ADJOURNMENT
- DOCUMENTS
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QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
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Immigration: Detainees
(Lees, Sen Meg, Vanstone, Sen Amanda) -
Immigration: Detainees
(Allison, Sen Lyn, Vanstone, Sen Amanda) -
Customs: Advance Passenger Processing System
(Ludwig, Sen Joe, Ellison, Sen Chris) -
Australian Customs Service: Personnel
(Ludwig, Sen Joe, Ellison, Sen Chris) -
Aviation: Tasmania
(O'Brien, Sen Kerry, Campbell, Sen Ian)
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Immigration: Detainees
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Senator LUDWIG (Queensland) (9.36 a.m.)—I move:
That there be laid on the table by the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, no later than 5 pm on 12 May 2004, the following documents relating to the exercise of ministerial discretion under sections 351 and 417 of the Migration Act 1958:
(a) the documentary evidence from the case histories relating to the applications for the Minister to exercise his discretionary powers concerning which Mr Karim Kisrwani made representations on behalf of the applicant to the former Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (Mr Ruddock) which resulted in the Minister intervening on behalf of the applicant, indicating the following:
(i) the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) or Migration Review Tribunal (MRT) outcome in relation to each case,
(ii) the outcome of the Minister's consideration pursuant to sections 351 or 417, and the date of the Minister's decision,
(iii) an indication of whether the case at any stage was assessed by officers of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) as falling outside the Minister's guidelines,
(iv) the date of any such assessment,
(v) the date on which each case was first referred to the Minister's office, and an indication of whether at that stage the case was a scheduled case (assessed as outside the guidelines) or a full submission,
(vi) the date on which the file was the subject of a submission (other than on the schedule) to the Minister's office,
(vii) details of any requests by the Minister's office for a submission in relation to any of the files, as referred to in the letter, including the date, and any documentary record, of such requests,
(viii) details of the date or dates and nature of the contact with Mr Kisrwani referred to in the letter, and
(ix) copies of any correspondence or other documentation evidencing such contact;
(b) copies of all case files for all cases involving representations by Mr Cameron MP and Gateway Pharmaceuticals to Mr Ruddock to intervene on behalf of applicants and where the Minister exercised his powers under sections 351 and 417;
(c) the documentary evidence for each of the 105 case histories referred to in evidence given by DIMIA officers on 31 October 2003 to the Select Committee on Ministerial Discretion in Migration Matters, indicating in each case the following:
(i) the nationality of the applicant,
(ii) a timeline of the application process including processing of the ministerial intervention request subsequent to the decisions of either the RRT or MRT,
(iii) details of decisions made by departmental officers and review tribunals in relation to each applicant,
(iv) whether the case was assessed by the department as meeting the guidelines for ministerial intervention or placed on a schedule as being outside the guidelines and the date of such decisions,
(v) details including the date of any communication from the Minister or the Minister's office regarding the case, including any request for a full submission, and
(vi) names of any persons who made representations on behalf of the applicant;
(d) all documents on case files relating to the exercise of the ministerial discretionary powers under sections 351 and 417 in the cases of Ibrahim Sammaki and Bedweny Hbeiche; and
(e) all documents on case files relating to the exercise of the ministerial discretionary powers under sections 351 and 417 in cases involving represent-ations by Mr Fahmi Hussain.
Question agreed to.