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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/08/00900
21 pages
PDF
This FOI disclosure lists goods descriptions from Australian export declaration forms for shipments to Israel between 3 June and 19 August 2025. The 21-page document catalogues approximately 250+ distinct export items with their corresponding declaration counts. Exports include…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/08/00805
11 pages
PDF
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) guides Department of Home Affairs staff in interpreting biometric match results from the Migration Five (M5) data-sharing consortium comprising Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. The M5 arrangement…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/07/00271
43 pages
PDF
The disclosure contains internal Australian Border Force correspondence regarding security arrangements at Miowera Village, an Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) associated with Villawood Immigration Detention Centre (VIDC). The documents, dated February-March 2025, consist…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/10/00396
68 pages
PDF
This disclosure contains historical webpage content from the Department of Home Affairs regarding Bridging Visa E (BVE) procedures between 1 July and 1 November 2023. The material focuses on Form 956A, which allows individuals to appoint or withdraw an authorised recipient to…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/10/01535
16 pages
PDF
This FOI disclosure contains correspondence from an October 2023 non-personal information request (FA 23/10/00677) seeking specific citizenship processing data for Bayside Council, New South Wales. The applicant requested the total number of people waiting for citizenship…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/10/00594
2 pages
PDF
This disclosure provides data on Community Support Program (CSP) visa Class XB applications submitted by Approved Proposing Organisations (APOs) in Australia from 2017-18 to 2025-26. The document lists 11 APOs including Ames Australia, Assyrian Australian Association, Australian…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/10/00830
5 pages
PDF
This FOI disclosure provides a list of suppliers and exporters of Sri Lankan tea (HS Code 0902) imported into Australia between 1 January 2024 and 30 September 2025. The document identifies dozens of tea exporters and intermediaries, primarily based in Sri Lanka but also…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/10/00417
1 page
PDF
This document is a Tariff Concession Order (TCO 9509819) issued in October 1995 authorizing duty-free importation of absolute ethanol by Ajax Chemicals (a division of Clyde Industries, Auburn NSW) for specified laboratory applications. The ethanol must comply with American…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/08/01770
38 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs released recruitment documentation for the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (ASECA) office, showing staffing arrangements and selection processes from October 2024. The disclosure includes interview scheduling details for three vacant…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/06/00478
20 pages
PDF
This departmental background brief to the Assistant Minister for Immigration outlines the development of Australia's multi-year skilled permanent migration planning model. The document details the timeline of engagement with state and territory governments and National Cabinet…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/09/01070
7 pages
PDF
Home Affairs' 2024 gender pay gap (GPG) analysis, based on Australian Public Service Commission remuneration data, shows the Department's median GPG reduced from 9.3% in 2023 to 7.2% in 2024. A deep-dive examination reveals the gap stems entirely from shift penalties…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/08/00561
92 pages
PDF
This disclosure documents international travel expenses for Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism between July 2024 and August 2025. The released materials include itemized cost breakdowns for four countries: Argentina (August-September 2024, $8,767.98 airfare)…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/07/02131
46 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs released an invitation to the Australian Associated Press to deliver the Large Projects and National Support initiative under Program 2.5 - Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Program (Grant ID 2023-2320). The grant opportunity documents included…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/07/00270
62 pages
PDF
A Department of Home Affairs ministerial brief (MB25-000371) from May 2025 documents consideration of visa cancellation for Kanye West (alias Ye) following his release of a song titled "Heil Hitler" on 8 May 2025, widely characterized as anti-Semitic. The brief sought…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/09/01800
1 page
PDF
Between 1 July 2023 and 31 August 2025, the Department of Home Affairs granted 2,307 employer-sponsored visas to Iranian nationals across two programs. The Migration Program granted 837 skilled visas (subclasses 186, 187, 494), with numbers rising from 293 in the first year to…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/09/00266
2 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs released visa processing data showing grants of Woman at Risk (subclass 204) and Global Special Humanitarian (subclass 202) visas to Afghan nationals from 2021-22 to 2024-25. Woman at Risk visa grants to Afghan nationals totaled 215, 712, 319, and…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/09/00043
7 pages
PDF
The document outlines the Department of Home Affairs' management protocols for Irregular Maritime Arrivals designated as Offshore Entry Persons (OEPs), distinguishing between pre and post-23 March 2012 cohorts. For the pre-23 March cohort, the Minister exercises section 195A…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/07/02091
2 pages
PDF
The Australian Border Force has conducted border interventions with four Australian citizens or dual nationals since 7 October 2023 who were suspected of departing to serve with the Israel Defence Forces. The Department of Home Affairs and ABF do not systematically track…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/08/00096
39 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs released an engagement agreement for a non-statutory appointment as Special Envoy to Ms Jillian Segal AO. The appointee receives a daily rate of $1,700 (excluding GST) for a maximum of 220 days per year. Payment is made monthly via tax invoice. The…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 25/08/01357
11 pages
PDF
In June 2025, Australian government officials from the Department of Home Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Industry Science and Resources, and the Prime Minister and Cabinet coordinated to meet with OpenAI's Chief Strategy Officer during their…