Appendix 1

Submissions and answers to questions on notice

Submissions

1
Legal Services Commission of South Australia
2
Mr Henry Sherrell, Peter Mares, Abul Rizvi, Dr. Shanthi Robertson, Dr. Laurie Berg and Kevin Bain
3
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
4
Australian Human Rights Commission
5
NSW Council for Civil Liberties
6
Australian Council of TESOL Associations
7
Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness
8
Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA)
9
Ms Heather Marr
10
Victoria Legal Aid
11
Mr Kostya Kuzmin
12
Police Federation of Australia
13
Refugee Council of Australia
14
Visa Cancellations Working Group
14.1 Supplementary to submission 14
15
Department of Home Affairs
16
Oz Kiwi
17
Refugee Legal
18
Immigration Advice and Rights Centre (IARC)
19
Public Law and Policy Research Unit, University of Adelaide
20
Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network (MYAN)
21
Professor Anna Cody and Dr Jason Donnelly
22
Ethnic Communities Council of WA
23
Settlement Council of Australia
24
Liberty Victoria
25
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
26
Queensland Council for Civil Liberties
27
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
28
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
29
Law Council of Australia
30
Settlement Services International
31
Ms Marianne Dickie and Mr Sergio Zanotti Stagliorio
32
Ms Maria Aylward

Answers to Questions on Notice

1
Law Council of Australia, responses to questions on notice, 19 August 2019 (received 23 August 2019)
2
Department of Home Affairs, responses to questions on notice, 19 August 2019 (received 4 September 2019)

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About this inquiry

The bill would amend the character test in section 501 of the Migration Act 1958 to provide grounds to consider visa cancellation or refusal where a non-citizen has been convicted of a serious crime, and make consequential amendments to the definition of ‘character concern’.



Past Public Hearings

19 Aug 2019: Canberra