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The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility in use from 2001 to 2008, from 2012 to 2019, and from September 2021. It is located on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru and run by the Government of Nauru. The use of immigration detention facilities is part of a policy of mandatory detention ...
Immigration Detention Centres (IDCs) Immigration detention centres detain people who have overstayed their visa, breached their visa conditions and had their visa cancelled or have been refused entry at Australia's entry ports. [ 7] This includes irregular maritime arrivals claiming asylum without passports, identity papers or valid entry visas ...
The Department of Home Affairs is the Australian Government interior ministry with responsibilities for national security, protective services, emergency management, border control, immigration, refugees, citizenship, transport security and multicultural affairs. [ 2] The Home Affairs portfolio reports to the Minister for Home Affairs ...
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection ( DIBP) was a department of the Government of Australia that was responsible for immigration, citizenship and border control (including visa issuance ). It has now been subsumed into the Department of Home Affairs, which combines its responsibilities with a number of other portfolios.
North West Point Immigration Detention Centre, formerly Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre is an Australian immigration detention facility located on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean . As at 31 December 2023, no people were detained at the centre. [ 1] The last time it was occupied was August 2023 (36 detainees).
Immigration to Australia. The Australian continent was first settled when ancestors of Indigenous Australians arrived via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea over 50,000 years ago. [ 1] European colonisation began in 1788 with the establishment of a British penal colony in New South Wales.
Asylum seekers protesting against detention at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on 22 April 2011. The entrance of the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, taken in April 2003, following closure of the Centre. This is a list of current and former Australian immigration detention facilities.
Alick Downer. Status: Current legislation. The Migration Act 1958 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that governs immigration to Australia. [2] It set up Australia’s universal visa system (or entry permits). Its long title is "An Act relating to the entry into, and presence in, Australia of aliens, and the departure or deportation ...