On 16 June 2011 the Parliament established Joint Select Committee on Australia's Immigration Detention Network. It is an anticipated that the Committee will report in March 2012.

The Joint Select Committee on Australia's Immigration Detention Network will conduct a comprehensive inquiry into Australia's Immigration Detention Network, including its management, resourcing, potential expansion, possible alternative solutions, the Government's detention values, and the effect of detention on detainees.

The committee will also inquire into the reasons for and nature of riots and disturbances, their management, and the length of time detainees have been held in the detention network, the reasons for their stay, the processes for assessment of protection claims and any other matters relevant to the terms of reference.

The closing date for submissions  is  26 August  2011.

The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted  online or sent by email to  immigration.detention@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.
Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:

Committee Secretary  
Joint Select Committee on Australia's Immigration Detention Network  
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

You may request your submission be kept confidential and the committee will consider your request.

Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3521 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5706 or by email to immigration.detention@aph.gov.au.

Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at  http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.

Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.