Table of Contents
List of Acronyms (PDF format) (Word format)
Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations (PDF format) (Word format)
Introduction (PDF format) (Word format)
CHAPTER 1 - The Refugee issue (PDF format) (Word format)
CHAPTER 2 - Australia’s International Obligations and the Principle
of Non-Refoulement (PDF format) (Word format)
CHAPTER 3 - Legal and Other Assistance to Asylum Seekers (PDF format) (Word format)
CHAPTER 4 - Decision-making - PART 1 - The Departmental Decision (PDF format) (Word format)
CHAPTER 5 - Decision-making - PART 2 - The Refugee Review Tribunal (PDF format) (Word format)
CHAPTER 6 - Judicial Oversight of Administrative Decisions (PDF format) (Word format)
CHAPTER 7 - The Case of Mr SE (PDF format) (Word format)
CHAPTER 8 - Ministerial Discretion (PDF format)
(Word format)
CHAPTER 9 - The Case of the Chinese Woman (PDF format)
(Word format)
CHAPTER 10 - Removals from Australia (PDF format)
(Word format)
CHAPTER 11 - Monitoring of Returned Persons (PDF format)
(Word format)
Additional Comments from Senators Payne and Coonan (PDF format) (Word format)
Additional Comments from Senator Cooney (PDF format) (Word format)
Additional Comments from Senator Bartlett (PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 1 - Organisations and Persons that provided the Committee with
Submissions (PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 2 - Organisations and Persons who Gave Evidence at Public Hearings
(PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 3 - Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 4 - Judicial Review Under the Migration Act 1958 (PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 5 - Table 1: Federal Court Resolutions Since the 1993-1994 Financial
Year (PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 6 - Mr SE - Chronology of Events (PDF format)
(Word format)
Appendix 7 - The Ministerial Discretion - s 417 of the Migration Act
1958 (PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 8 - Guidelines for Stay in Australia on Humanitarian Grounds
(Pre 1999 version) (PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 9 - The Ministerial Guidelines for the Identification of Unique
or Exceptional Cases where it may be in the Public Interest to Substitute
a more Favourable Decision under S345, 351, 391, 417, 454 of the Migration
act 1958 397 (PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 10 - Ms Z - Chronology of Events (PDF format)
(Word format)
Appendix 11 - Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Migration
Series Instruction MSI – 22 (PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 12 - Standard of Service Provided by the Contractor (PDF format) (Word format)
Appendix 13 - Summary of Recommendations Requiring Input From DIMA and
Other Bodies (PDF format) (Word format)