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Baxter Immigration Detention Facility. Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Centre or commonly just Baxter Detention Centre, was an Australian immigration detention facility near the town of Port Augusta in South Australia. It was the focus of much of the controversy concerning the mandatory detention of asylum seekers in Australia.
Australian law defines a statutory declaration as a written statement declared to be true in the presence of an authorised witness. The Statutory Declarations Act 1959 governs the use of statutory declarations in matters involving the law of the Australian Commonwealth, Australian Capital Territory, and other territories but not including the Northern Territory.
On 25 July 2011, the Minister had used the section to make a declaration that Malaysia was such a country. [6] In August 2011, an immigration officer determined that M70 would be removed from Australia pursuant to the arrangement, while M106 would be removed once support services for unaccompanied minors had been established.
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 from Australia of aliens and certain other ...
Section 51(xxvii) of the Constitution of Australia (the immigration power) grants the Commonwealth Parliament the power to make laws with respect to "immigration and emigration." Historically, it was the principal legislative power in support of Australia's immigration scheme , which is now embodied in the Migration Act 1958 (Cth).
NZYQ v Minister for Immigration Court High Court of Australia Full case name NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Decided 28 November 2023 Citation HCA 37 Court membership Judges sitting Gageler CJ, Gordon, Edelman, Steward, Gleeson, Jagot, Beech-Jones JJ Case opinions Detention of non-citizens is not for a non-punitive purpose if there is no real prospect of ...
South Australia v Commonwealth (First Uniform Tax case) 1942 65 CLR 373 Latham: 248 Commonwealth taxation power was sufficient to impose a scheme of uniform income tax across the country and displace that of the States Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses v Commonwealth (Jehovah's Witnesses case) 1943 67 CLR 116 Latham: 168
Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Teoh (commonly known as Teoh's case) [1] was an Australian court case which was decided by the High Court of Australia on 7 April 1995. The case is notable for giving unprecedented significance to the ratification of international treaties by the executive government (in particular the ...