Department of Immigration and Border Protection

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The Department of Immigration and Border Protection is an immigration department of the Commonwealth of Australia , which Prime Minister Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party of Australia established after taking office in 2013. Before that, the ministry was called the Department of Immigration and Citizenship under the two laboratory governments of Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd .

After Abbott was replaced as Prime Minister in 2015, Malcolm Turnbull came into office. This Department of Immigration is currently run by Peter Dutton . Like the previous laboratory governments, the incumbent government (as of April 2017) is continuing the rigid migration and asylum policy that has been pursued against boat people with the rigid application of immigration detention .

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The administration building of the Department of Immigration in Belconnen city ​​center of Canberra (February 2013)

The Department of Immigration has been led by a national liberal government led by Malcolm Turnbull since 2015 after Tony Abbott was replaced from office. The incumbent conservative coalition government consists of the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Party of Australia .

The priorities of the former Department of Immigration and Citzenship were, in addition to immigration, border controls, citizenship, ethnic and multicultural matters. After taking office, Abbott removed the focus on multiculturalism and put the protection of Australia's external borders in the foreground.

Kevin Rudd replaced Julia Gillard from her post as Prime Minister in 2013. Rudd was prime minister only for a short time when numerous boat people sought asylum and he too wanted to intern all boat people in foreign camps. Rudd was defeated in the November 2013 election, however, and the conservative Abbott came to power, who had carried out his election campaign “stop the boats” as a zero-tolerance policy , also known as Operation Sovereign Borders . Abbott thus continued the rigid migration policy reintroduced under Rudd after he took office on September 18, 2013 as Prime Minister, as did the subsequent government under Malcolm Turnbull, who replaced Tony Abbott as Prime Minister and has been Australian Prime Minister since September 15, 2015 .

Manus Regional Processing Center (2012)

Turnball was faced with the fact that the highest court of Papua New Guinea had ruled that the Manus Regional Processing Center on the island of Manus was illegal and contrary to the constitution. This Australian internment camp for boat people in a third country must be permanently closed by October 31, 2017. Turnbull stated that Australia was by no means ready to take over the approximately 900 interned boat people.

Immigration Minister

The Department of Immigration is currently (as of April 2017) headed by Peter Dutton from the Liberal Party of Australia .

Names of the immigration ministries since 1945

From 1901 to 1945 there was no independent immigration ministry, but matters were dealt with in subdivisions of other ministries.

Surname abbreviation Beginning The End government
Department of Immigration DI 1945 1974
Department of Labor and Immigration DLI 1974 1975
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs DIEA 1975 1987
Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs DILGEA 1987 1993
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (II) DIEA 1993 1996
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs DIMA 1996 2001
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs DIMIA 2001 2006
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (II) DIMA 2006 2007
Department of Immigration and Citizenship DIAC 2007 2013 Australian Labor Party
Department of Immigration and Border Protection DIBP 2013 current National Liberal Coalition

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  1. ↑ Asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat to be resettled in Papua New Guinea . ABC, July 19, 2013; Retrieved April 23, 2017
  2. ↑ Marcus Mannheim: Cabinet archives 1992-93: Forget Tampa, boat people panic began under Keating . Sydney Morning Herald , Jan. 1, 2017; Retrieved April 23, 2017
  3. ↑ Eric Tlozek: Chief Justice finds Manus Island detention center is actually closed . ABC News; Retrieved April 23, 2017
  4. ↑ Administrative Arrangements Order . Commonwealth of Australia, September 2013, p. 26; Retrieved April 23, 2017