Immigration & Citizenship Portfolio

Budget Estimates 2009-2010 (May 2009)

Immigration & Citizenship Portfolio

Letters of correction/clarification

Tabled Documents

Item no

Date  received

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1

27/5/09

Mr Andrew Metcalfe, Secretary, Department of Immigration and Citizenship

2009-10 DIAC Outcomes and Programs

(PDF 384KB)

2

27/5/09

Mr Andrew Metcalfe, Secretary, Department of Immigration and Citizenship

Department of Immigration and Citizenship Portfolio Budget Statements - Erratum

(PDF 147KB)

3

27/5/09

Mr Peter Vardos PSM, First Assistant Secretary, Migration and Visa Policy Division, Department of Immigration and Citizenship

Subclass 457 Business (Long stay)

State/Territory Summary Report 2008-09

(PDF 11347KB)

4

27/5/09

Mr Peter Speldewinde, Assistant Secretary, Migration and Visa Policy Division, Department of Immigration and Citizenship

457 Visas - Top 10 occupations/countries primary applicant visas granted

(PDF 231KB)

5

27/5/09

Mr Andrew Metcalfe, Secretary, Department of Immigration and Citizenship

Unauthorised Arrivals (by sea)

(PDF 191KB)

6

28/5/09

Mr Andrew Metcalfe, Secretary, Department of Immigration and Citizenship

Conditions on which entry permits may be granted after entry into Australia from 1980

(PDF 219KB)

7

28/5/09

Ms Arja Keski-Nummi, First Assistant Secretary, Refugee, Humanitarian and International Division, Department of Immigration and Citizenship

Top Five Destination Countries (2008) – Various

(PDF 896KB)

8

28/5/09

Senator Barnett

Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit - Answers to questions on notice – Australian Taxation Office – 30 March 2009

(PDF 3155KB)

Questions on notice

QON No.

Senator

Program/
agency

Question

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1.

Barnett

MRT

Three-yearly chart for applications lodged in the MRT

(PDF 15KB)

2.

Barnett

MRT

MRT lodgements received during 2008-09 and 2007-08

(PDF 11KB)

3.

Barnett

MRT

File management

(PDF 12KB)

4.

Barnett

MRT/RRT

Client and staff surveys

(PDF 13KB)

5.

Barnett

Internal Product

FOI requests

(PDF 7KB)

6.

Fierravanti-Wells

1.1

Unregistered migration agents

(PDF 13KB)

7.

Fierravanti-Wells

1.1

Complaints regarding education agents

(PDF 12KB)

8.

Fierravanti-Wells

1.1

Skilled migrants’ settlement areas

(PDF 11KB)

9.

Fierravanti-Wells

1.1

Copy of the 457 draft regulations

(PDF 7KB)
Attachment
(PDF 204KB)

10.

Fierravanti-Wells

1.1

Labour agreements

(PDF 12KB)

11.

Feeney

1.1

457 visa holders

(PDF 21KB)

12.

Fierravanti-Wells

3.1

Movements across the border by non-Australians

(PDF 7KB)

13.

Fierravanti-Wells

3.1

Stimulus package payments

(PDF 7KB)

14.

Fifield

1.1

Applications for permanent residency in Australia

(PDF 8KB)

15.

Fifield

1.1

Number refused permanent residency on the basis of failing to satisfy the health requirement

(PDF 14KB)

16.

Fifield

Internal Product

Application of Anti-discrimination Act to the visa decision making by the department

(PDF 13KB)

17.

Barnett

1.1

Australia Needs Skills expos

(PDF 45KB)

18.

Barnett

1.1

Australia Needs Skills expo in the UK

(PDF 18KB)

19.

Barnett

1.1

eVisitors campaign, the Working Holiday Maker campaign, the US Work and Holiday promotions campaign, the temporary skilled reform project and the working holiday promotions

(PDF 13KB)

20.

Feeney

2.1

Shorter period of stay waiver requests

(PDF 11KB)

21.

Feeney

2.1

TPV holders separated from their families

(PDF 7KB)

22.

Fierravanti-Wells

2.1

Statistics relating to the time that people are spending in transit before they sail to Australia

(PDF 7KB)

23.

Hanson-Young

2.1

Number of asylum seeker protracted cases being assessed in Indonesia and number of people the UNHCR refer to Australia for resettlement out of Indonesia

(PDF 7KB)

24.

Hanson-Young

2.1

Money being directed towards other locations outside Indonesia to settle displaced populations

(PDF 13KB)

25.

Hanson-Young

2.1

Number of people being referred for resettlement to Australia from locations outside Indonesia to which the Department is directing money

(PDF 7KB)

26.

Fierravanti-Wells

Internal Product

Complaints about overseas staff

(PDF 8KB)

27.

Fierravanti-Wells

2.1

Complementary protection visa cases

(PDF 7KB)

28.

Barnett

3.1

ANAO report on Movement Alert List

(PDF 7KB)

29.

Barnett

3.1

Movement Alert List

(PDF 7KB)

30.

Barnett

3.1

Movement Alert List

(PDF 12KB)

31.

Barnett

3.1

Movement Alert List

(PDF 7KB)

32.

Hanson-Young

Internal Product

Money allocated to border security, amount directed specifically to managing unauthorised arrivals and people-smuggling

(PDF 15KB)

33.

Fierravanti-Wells

4.3

Protocols and processes that occur when an unauthorised boat arrives at Christmas Island

(PDF 7KB)
Attachment
(PDF 11KB)

34.

Fierravanti-Wells

3.1

Maritime incident management group

(PDF 8KB)

35.

Fierravanti-Wells

3.1

Report referred to by Senator Brandis in earlier evidence from AFP in relation to Indonesian people smuggling

(PDF 7KB)

36.

Fierravanti-Wells

3.1

Identity of unauthorised boat arrivals

(PDF 15KB)

37.

Fierravanti-Wells

4.1

Number of unauthorised arrivals since August last year who presented without documentation and released into the Australian community

(PDF 7KB)

38.

Trood

3.1

Border security arrangements around the Tiwi Islands

(PDF 7KB)

39.

Barnett

3.1

Unauthorised arrivals by sea

(PDF 12KB)

40.

Fierravanti-Wells

2.1

Protection visa processing of unauthorised boat arrivals

(PDF 12KB)

41.

Fierravanti-Wells

2.1

Breakdown of people who have arrived since August - number under UNHCR

(PDF 8KB)

42.

Fierravanti-Wells

2.1

Panel being set up to review negative decisions of unauthorised boat arrivals on Christmas Island

(PDF 7KB)

43.

Fierravanti-Wells

3.1

Delegation from Australia at the Bali Regional Ministerial Conference

(PDF 7KB)

44.

Fierravanti-Wells

3.1

Copy of the communiqué from the Bali Regional Ministerial Conference

(PDF 22KB)

45.

Fierravanti-Wells

3.1

In the six years that the Bali summit did not convene there were just these workshops. Number of meetings that occurred under the umbrella of the summit in that intervening period.

(PDF 23KB)

46.

Fierravanti-Wells

3.1

Spending initiatives that have come out of Bali summit

(PDF 7KB)

47.

Fierravanti-Wells

2.1

Displaced Persons Program

(PDF 7KB)

48.

Fierravanti-Wells

4.1

Provide the numbers of overstayers located and removed over the last six years and the percentage of the breakdown

(PDF 14KB)

49.

Fierravanti-Wells

2.1

Proust report on ministerial intervention

(PDF 10KB)

50.

Fierravanti-Wells

Internal Product

Onshore detention network funding

(PDF 18KB)

51.

Fierravanti-Wells

4.2

Nature of the incidents of self-harm in the detention centres

(PDF 8KB)

52.

Pratt

4.2

Redevelopment of Villawood

(PDF 10KB)

53.

Fierravanti-Wells

4.3

Total amount of allowances paid since August 2008 to those in community detention on Christmas Island.

(PDF 7KB)

54.

Fierravanti-Wells

5.1

List of nine new projects that were funded under the Settlements Grants Program for 2008-09.

(PDF 13KB)

55.

Fierravanti-Wells

5.1

Correspondence between DIAC and the Audit Office relating to the Settlement Grants matter

(PDF 7KB)
Attachment 1
(PDF 387KB)
Attachment 2
(PDF 604KB)
Attachment 3
(PDF 54KB)
Attachment 4
(PDF 1382KB)

56.

Fierravanti-Wells

5.1

Settlement grants

(PDF 14KB)
Attachment A
(PDF 23KB)
Attachment B
(PDF 175KB)

57.

Fierravanti-Wells

5.1

Settlement of humanitarian and refugee entrants into regional Australia

(PDF 15KB)

58.

Marshall

6.1

Cost to administer the citizenship test

(PDF 7KB)

59.

Humphries

5.1

Review of the AMEP program

(PDF 8KB)

60.

Humphries

5.1

Special Preparatory Program for certain humanitarian clients who need extra time to learn English because of trauma or disrupted education

(PDF 38KB)

61.

Humphries

5.1

TESOL advice in framing the AMEP program regulations

(PDF 7KB)

62.

Hanson-Young

RRT

Complementary Protection

(PDF 10KB)

63.

Hanson-Young

MRT/RRT

Timeliness of appeals

(PDF 13KB)

64.

Hanson-Young

RRT

Source country of refugee claim appeals

(PDF 10KB)

65.

Hanson-Young

4.2

Ownership of former Woomera detention facility, Baxter or Port Headland

(PDF 7KB)

66.

Hanson-Young

4.2

Children being held in detention.

(PDF 15KB)

67.

Hanson-Young

4.1

People who have received visas that have been detained on Christmas Island since the new centre opened in 2008

(PDF 8KB)

68.

Hanson-Young

4.3

Christmas Island Detention Centre

(PDF 7KB)

69.

Hanson-Young

4.3

Christmas Island Detention Centre

(PDF 8KB)

70.

Hanson-Young

4.3

Christmas Island Detention Centre

(PDF 8KB)

71.

Hanson-Young

4.3

Christmas Island Detention Centre

(PDF 9KB)

72.

Hanson-Young

4.3

Community detention on Christmas Island

(PDF 8KB)

73.

Hanson-Young

5.1

Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy

(PDF 10KB)

74.

Hanson-Young

4.2

Community Care Pilot

(PDF 7KB)

75.

Hanson-Young

5.1

Provision of grants funds to specialised service delivery agencies who work with refugees and asylum seekers.

(PDF 9KB)

76.

Joyce

3.1

Number of boats carrying Hazara people apprehended.
Number of refugees arrived “illegally” by boat in Australia since 2000.

(PDF 7KB)

77.

Joyce

2.1

Percentage of Afghan asylum seekers who are Hazara.
Percentage of asylum seekers attempting to enter Australia by boat who are Hazara.
Of the Hazara people apprehended, number who came to Australia directly from Afghanistan and via Pakistan

(PDF 8KB)

78.

Joyce

1.1

Applications to migrate to Australia received from Hazara people living in Afghanistan and Pakistan

(PDF 7KB)

79.

Joyce

Internal Product

Australian immigration officials currently based in Afghanistan and Pakistan

(PDF 7KB)

80.

Joyce

1.1

Hazara people living in Afghanistan and Pakistan - application process to immigrate to Australia

(PDF 8KB)

81.

Joyce

2.1

Systems for tracking refugee applications

(PDF 8KB)

82.

Joyce

5.1

Number of Hazara people accepted as permanent residents or citizens in Australia since 2000

(PDF 7KB)

83.

Joyce

2.1

Hazara people placed on TPVs

(PDF 7KB)

84.

Trood

1.1

Offer of permanent residency to 410 visa holders

(PDF 7KB)

85.

Boyce

Internal Product

Staff in the Department with a disability

(PDF 11KB)

86.

Fierravanti-Wells

5.1

Settlement Grants Program – Auditor General Report

(PDF 7KB)

87.

Fierravanti-Wells

5.1

Funding which has been allocated for programs and projects administered by DIAC within the Reid Electorate since the appointment of Mr Ferguson as Parliamentary Secretary

(PDF 8KB)
Attachment A
(PDF 14KB)

88.

Fierravanti-Wells

5.1

Minister Tanner’s Media Release of 9 December 2008 relating to transparency in grant allocations

(PDF 8KB)

89.

Fierravanti-Wells

2.1

Entrants under the Humanitarian program who are unemployed

(PDF 14KB)

90.

Fierravanti-Wells

6.1

Reports the Department commissioned or received since December 2007 of tensions and/or violence within ethnic communities residing in Australia

(PDF 7KB)

91.

Fierravanti-Wells

6.1

Incidents of race related violence the Department has been made aware of

(PDF 7KB)

92.

Fierravanti-Wells

1.1

Spouse or partner visa sponsors

(PDF 13KB)

93.

Fierravanti-Wells

1.1

Guest worker visas

(PDF 12KB)

94.

Fierravanti-Wells

Internal Product

Development of the Department’s IT systems

(PDF 7KB)

95.

Fierravanti-Wells

Internal Product

IT spending

(PDF 7KB)

96.

Fierravanti-Wells

Internal Product

IT consultancies

(PDF 7KB)
Attachment A
(PDF 7KB)

For further information, contact:

Estimates Officer
Senate Standing Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Phone: +61 2 6277 3560
Fax: +61 2 6277 5794
Email: legcon.sen@aph.gov.au