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• Migration Amendment (Humanitarian Visa Intake) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Sep 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to prevent the preclusion of processing or granting a visa at any time in a financial year when fewer than 20 000 humanitarian visas have been granted; and require the minister to present to Parliament quarterly reports setting out the number of each class of humanitarian visas granted during the previous quarter. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Immigration Detention Reform) Bill 2009 [2010]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jun 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to implement seven Immigration Detention Values to provide the framework for immigration detention. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Judicial Review) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Mar 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Kids Off Nauru) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Oct 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WILKIE, Andrew, MP
  BANDT, Adam, MP
  SHARKIE, Rebekha, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to require the temporary transfer of children and their families from offshore detention to Australia for the purpose of medical or psychiatric assessment or treatment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide a framework for the use of reasonable force in specified circumstances by authorised officers within immigration detention facilities; and establish a complaints mechanism relating to the exercise of power to use reasonable force. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Mandatory Detention) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob
  NETTLE, Kerry 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill

• Migration Amendment (Mandatory Reporting) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MARLES, Richard, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to require the reporting of child abuse in onshore and offshore immigration detention facilities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (New Maritime Crew Visas) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Nov 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KENEALLY, Sen Kristina 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to replace current Maritime Crew Visas with two new categories of visa: the International Seafarers Transit Visa for entering Australia on a continuing international voyage only; and the International Seafarers Work Visa for international seafarers to be engaged on ships authorised under a temporary license to undertake coastal voyages under the

  Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) Act 2012

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Offshore Resources Activity) Repeal Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Repeals the

  Migration Amendment (Offshore Resources Activity) Act 2013

  to remove the requirement for foreign workers to hold a visa when they participate in, or support, offshore resource activities taken to be in the migration zone. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: enable the minister to determine, by legislative instrument, prohibited things in relation to immigration detention facilities; allow authorised officers and assistants to search Commonwealth immigration detention facilities without a warrant; strengthen the screening and seizure powers of authorised officers; and allow the use of dogs for screening detainees and persons about to enter a Commonwealth immigration detention facility, and for searching these facilities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum