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Parliament of Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 1 PART I—CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS ................................................................................ 2 2010 .............................................................................................................................................. 2 2011 .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Commentary by former politicians and bureaucrats .................................................................... 19 PART II—LEGISLATION ...................................................................................................................... 23 Government initiated legislation.................................................................................................. 23 Combating the Financing of People Smuggling and Other Measures Bill 2011

    JANUARY 11, 2012 Refugee resettlement to Australia: what are the facts? Image source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Of the 145 States Parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention, only about 25 participate in the United Nations resettlement program and accept quotas of refugees on an annual basis. Australia

Parliament of Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 1 Coastal surveillance and interception ................................................................................................. 1 Customs ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Defence ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Detention and processing ................................................................................................................... 6 Offshore asylum seeker management............................................................................................ 6 Onshore detention ........................................................................................................................ 9 Capital expenditure on detention centres ...................................................................................... 9 Security assessments ................................................................................................................... 10 Other costs ..................................................................................................................................

  MARCH 28, 2011 Responding to boat arrivals A widespread perception in the community that Australia is being swamped by asylum seekers arriving by boat continues to strongly influence government policy and to be an emotive and divisive political issue. As a result, for many years the Labor Government and

NOVEMBER 22, 2010 High Court ruling on the offshore processing of asylum claims On 11 November 2010 the High Court delivered its much anticipated judgment in the cases of Plaintiff M61/2010E v Commonwealth of Australia; Plaintiff M69 of 2010 v Commonwealth of Australia [2010] HCA 41. The plaintiffs were asylum

      Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services BACKGROUND NOTE  18 October 2010 Developments in Australian refugee law and policy 2007-10   Labor’s first term in office  Elibritt Karlsen  Law and Bills Digest Section  Contents  Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1  Chronology of key events ........................................................................................................................ 4  PART I—LEGISLATION .............................................................................................................................. 7  Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No.1) 2008 ........................................................................... 7  Migration Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 5) .............................................................................. 8  Migration Amendment (Notification Review) Act 2008 ..................................................................... 9  Migration Legislation Amendment Act (No.1) 2009 ........................................................................... 9  Migration Amendment (Abolishing Detention Debt) Act 2009 ........................................................ 10  Migration Amendment (Protection of Identifying Information) Act 2009 ........................................ 11  Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Test Review and Other Measures) Act 2009 ......... 11  Migration Amendment Regulations 2009 (No.6) ............................................................................. 12  Anti‐People Smuggling and Other Measures Act 2010 ..................................................................... 12  Proposed Legislation .............................................................................................................................. 13  Migration Amendment (Immigration Detention Reform) Bill 2009 ................................................. 13  Migration Amendment (Complementary Protection) Bill 2009 ....................................................... 13  PART II—POLICY REFORM AND OTHER COMMITMENTS....................................................................... 14  Cessation of extra‐territorial processing of asylum claims ............................................................... 14  Immigration detention ...................................................................................................................... 15  Commentary ........................................................................................................................... 17  Excision and offshore processing on Christmas Island ..................................................................... 17     Commentary ........................................................................................................................... 19  Suspension of processing Afghan and Sri Lankan asylum seekers ................................................... 19  Commentary ........................................................................................................................... 21  Proposal for a regional processing centre ........................................................................................ 22  Refugee Review Tribunal .................................................................................................................. 23  Merit‐based appointments .......................................................................................................... 23  Commentary ........................................................................................................................... 24  Publication of country of origin research .................................................................................... 24  Publication of decisions ............................................................................................................... 24  Multi‐year resettlement planning .................................................................................................... 25  Commonwealth budget commitments ............................................................................................. 26  2008—09 financial year ............................................................................................................... 26 

Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services Parliamentary Library Information, analysis and advice for the Parliament RESEARCH PAPER www.aph.gov.au/library 30 September 2009 no. 7, 2009-10, ISSN 1834-9854 Complementary protection for asylum seekers—overview of the international and Australian legal frameworks Elibritt Karlsen Law and Bills Digest Section Executive summary • There