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The portfolio and department were created in July 1945, during the last months of World War II.Previously, immigration affairs were handled by the Minister for Home Affairs (1901–1932) and the Minister for the Interior (1932–1945), except that between January 1925 and January 1928 Victor Wilson and Thomas Paterson were Ministers for Markets and Migration.
[12] [13] As Immigration Minister, Giles issued "Ministerial Direction 99" in early 2023 to the Department of Home Affairs and Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), which tightened the criteria for deporting non-citizen residents by focusing on their community ties and duration of time spent in Australia. This policy change had come in ...
Alexander George Hawke (born 9 July 1977) is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs from 2020 to 2022 in the Morrison government.
The book, published just two years after the 1986 immigrant amnesty law signed by then-President Ronald Reagan, is typical of far-left economic thinking on immigration.
Anthony Stephen Burke (born 4 November 1969) is an Australian politician serving as Leader of the House, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for the Arts.He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and has served as member of parliament (MP) for Watson since 2004.
Albert Jaime Grassby, AM (12 July 1926 – 23 April 2005) was an Australian politician who served as Minister for Immigration in the Labor Whitlam government.He completed reforms in immigration and human rights, and is often known as the father of Australian "multiculturalism".
He served as Minister for Immigration from 1958 to 1963. One of his first acts was to oversee the passage of the Migration Act 1958, [8] which replaced the earlier Immigration Restriction Act 1901 that had formed the basis of the White Australia policy. During his term in office, reforms to migration laws led to the arrival of hundreds of ...
Ian Malcolm Macphee AO (born 13 July 1938) is an Australian former politician. He held ministerial office in the Fraser government as Minister for Productivity (1976–1979), Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1979–1982), and Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (1982–1983).