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TOTAL RESULTS: 111
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- Date
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17 Aug 2006
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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BARTLETT, Andrew
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to repeal provisions which provide that compliance with certain specified codes of procedure satisfy the common law requirements of the natural justice hearing rule.
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21 Jun 2006
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to: clarify the immigration clearance and immigration status of non-citizen children born in Australia; harmonise criminal offence provisions with those in the Criminal Code Act 1995
; clarify the power to require and take a security to ensure compliance with visa conditions, before granting a visa; and clarify certain provisions in relation to the operation of bridging visas.
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- Date
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19 Jun 2006
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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BARTLETT, Andrew
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to repeal provisions in relation to security and screening measures for visitors and other persons entering immigration detention centres.
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- Date
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11 May 2006
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to expand the offshore processing regime currently applying to offshore entry persons and transitory persons to include all persons arriving at mainland Australia unlawfully by sea on or after 13 April 2006. Also provides for: the exemption of certain persons not intended to be caught by the regime, including New Zealand citizens, permanent residents of Norfolk Island and persons brought to Australia purely for Customs Act 1901
purposes; an independent review of the operation of the amendments in the bill, after two years; and offshore processing arrangements to revert to those in place previously, after five years.
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- Date
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16 Jun 2005
- Chamber
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Senate
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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BROWN, Sen Bob
NETTLE, Kerry
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to: abolish temporary protection visas; ensure that detention of children is a last resort; provide for judicial review of immigration detention; limit the period of time that asylum seekers are detained; and provide for the Federal Court to impose on detainees certain conditions of release.
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- Date
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27 May 2004
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Attorney-General
- Summary
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Amends the:
Marriage Act 1961
to: define marriage as a union of a man and a woman; and clarify that same-sex marriages entered into under the law of another country will not be recognised in Australia; and Family Law Act 1975
to prevent intercountry adoptions by same sex couples under multilateral or bilateral agreements or arrangements.
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- Date
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25 Mar 2004
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends: the
Migration Act 1958
to include purported decisions in the definition of “privative clause decision”; and to restore the original procedural intent of the migration judicial review scheme in relation to: time limits on judicial review applications; exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court, Federal Court and Federal Magistrates Court to hear judicial review of migration applications; and restrictions on judicial review of decisions where merits review of the primary decision is available; and makes a consequential amendment to the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977
. Also contains application provisions.
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- Date
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19 Feb 2004
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to further clarify that an unlawful non-citizen must be kept in immigration detention unless a court finally determines that the detention is unlawful or that the detainee is not an unlawful non-citizen. Also contains an application provision.
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- Date
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01 Dec 2003
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Sponsor
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- Date
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20 Jun 2002
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Migration Act 1958
to expand the definition of “excised offshore place” to include the Coral Sea Islands Territory and certain islands that form part of Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
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