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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/06/00151
70 pages
PDF
This Ministerial Submission MS25-001359, signed in July 2025, seeks the Minister for Home Affairs' consideration of a de-listing application under subsection 102.1(16) of the Criminal Code in relation to Hamas as a listed terrorist organisation. The application was an August…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/02/00598
26 pages
PDF
The release contains correspondence between the Office of the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (ASECA) and Arnold Bloch Leibler (ABL), a law firm, about a judicial seminar on the history of antisemitism held on 5 June 2025 at ABL's Sydney offices for NSW judges and…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/04/01625
59 pages
PDF
The release comprises ministerial submissions, a draft bill, explanatory materials and operational reporting relating to the Migration Amendment (2026 Measures No. 1) Bill 2026, which would create a new ministerial power to make an "arrival control determination" by…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/05/00906
21 pages
PDF
This FOI release comprises a March 2022 ministerial submission (MS22-000530) and a series of Humanitarian Program operational announcements from 2022 to 2025, concerning the allocation of humanitarian places and priority processing for Myanmar nationals following the February…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/06/01087
13 pages
PDF
This Department of Home Affairs ministerial submission (MS25-000267, cleared 13 February 2025) briefs the Home Affairs, Immigration and Cyber Security ministers on the proposed approach to Horizon 2 (2026–28) of the 2023–2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy. It reports that…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/06/01798
6 pages
PDF
This FOI release comprises a Public Service appointment instrument dated 28 November 2023 appointing Ms Stephanie Foster PSM as Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs for five years from that date, signed by the Governor-General and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. It also…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/05/00292
98 pages
PDF
This release comprises a ministerial submission (MS25-001221, dated 3 February 2026) and related attachments concerning appointments to the Cyber Incident Review Board under the Cyber Security Act 2024. The submission seeks the Minister's approval to write to the Prime Minister…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/03/01404
49 pages
PDF
This FOI release from the Department of Home Affairs concerns Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme worker disengagement, covering 1 January 2023 to 18 March 2026. Documents include a data table, back pocket briefs for Budget and Additional Estimates hearings (2023 and…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/02/00517
10 pages
PDF
The release comprises a meeting brief (MB25-000531) prepared for Minister Tony Burke's 8 July 2025 meeting with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, with the associated meeting request, ministerial correspondence and a letter from the ACTU, AMWU, AWU and ALAEA. The brief…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/07/01004
1 page
PDF
This release is a single-page instrument signed by Peter Dutton as Minister for Home Affairs on 21 December 2017, titled the Minister for Home Affairs Appointment of Authorised Officers 2017 (DEL 17/098), made under section 144 of the Migration Act 1958. It revokes all existing…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/04/02020
5 pages
PDF
This Australian Border Force minute dated 1 December 2025 (ref EC25-005738) briefs Commissioner Gavan Reynolds AO on the Australia Travel Declaration (ATD) trial, which began at Brisbane airport on 21 October 2025 in partnership with Qantas, with over 135,000 ATDs lodged. The…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/06/00319
5 pages
PDF
This Department of Home Affairs standard operating procedure, VM-6902, approved on 25 July 2025, sets out how citizenship ceremonies are administered. Its excerpted sections cover three operational matters. Approved applicants who are available for ceremony can be added to…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/06/01141
1 page
PDF
The release is a short FOI response (reference FA 26/06/01141) on security classification markings under the Protective Security Policy Framework. It contains no operational data, visa or detention statistics, or internal policy debate. The Commonwealth Security Policy Branch…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/03/00048
74 pages
PDF
The release comprises briefing notes, emails, meeting records and attachments from the Department of Home Affairs' Strategic Policy Division, dated mostly between October 2025 and February 2026, concerning the United States' Enhanced Border Security Partnership (EBSP) and…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/05/01537
14 pages
PDF
This Australian Border Force presentation, prepared for a Border Integrity Meeting on 29 April 2026, addresses the illicit tobacco and vape (ITV) threat. It cites roughly 1,000 tonnes detected in under four months, with air and sea cargo as the primary vectors, and describes…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/06/02014
2 pages
PDF
The release comprises two statistical tables from the Department of Home Affairs covering the financial years 2021/2022 to 2025/2026, current as at 31 May 2026. The first table records involuntary removals to South Sudan under section 198 of the Migration Act 1958, which the…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/06/01689
3 pages
PDF
The Department of Home Affairs release (FOI request FA 26/05/00954) concerns priority processing and permission to apply in Australia for Sponsored Parent (Temporary) (subclass 870) visa applications. The Department stated that its reporting does not hold data on approvals of…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 26/05/00954
43 pages
PDF
The release is a 21-page paper-style extract of the online form for a Skills in Demand (subclass 482) visa, released by the Department of Home Affairs. It covers the form's sections for applicant details, current location and legal status, skills assessment, nomination details…
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HA
Home Affairs
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FA 26/04/00946
20 pages
PDF
This Department of Home Affairs release (FOI FA 26/04/00946) contains statistical tables on incidents recorded in held immigration detention from 1 November 2024 to 31 May 2026, drawn from departmental systems. Monthly totals rose from 833 in November 2024 to a peak of 1,850 in…
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HA
Home Affairs
Released
FA 23/11/01314-OR1
35 pages
PDF
The release comprises internal Home Affairs records, largely emails, meeting invitations, file notes and weekly coordination reports, concerning the NZYQ v Minister High Court matter (S28/2023) and contingency planning should the Commonwealth lose the Al-Kateb challenge to…