Department of Immigration and Citizenship

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC; German Ministry for Immigration and Citizenship ) was an immigration ministry of the Commonwealth of Australia , which existed from 2007 to 2013. It was run by the Labor Party and was subject to a frequent paradigm shift in its migration and asylum policy .

Tasks and political leadership

This Department of Immigration was led by the Labor Governments of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Prime Minister Julia Gillard . The Ministry of Immigration defined its work priorities in addition to immigration , border controls , citizenship , also in the area of ethnic and multicultural matters.

It was led by Andrew Metcalfe until 2012 and then by Martin Bowles .

Immigration and Asylum Policy

After the Labor Party's Kevin Rudd won the 2007 election in Australia, internment camps for asylum seekers boat people in countries outside the territory of Australia were closed in 2008. This meant the end of the " Pacific Solution ", the application of rigid immigration detention by the previous conservative government.

Protest against the policies of Kevin Rudd's second term (July 2013)

It was not until 2011 that the liberal policies of Kevin Rudd came under public pressure, which demanded that the internment camps in third countries be reopened against the arrival of numerous boat people. Rudd lost the majority in the Labor Party, which automatically led to the loss of the post of Prime Minister.

In 2012 and 2013, around 38,000 boat people arrived in Australia. Julia Gillard, who came to the post of Prime Minister after Rudd, tried to limit the number of refugees with the concept of the so-called "Malaysian Solution" and in this way to free Australian migration policy from the stigma of racism. The “Malaysian Solution” was based on the proposal that 800 asylum seekers who came to Australia as boat people should be repatriated. In return, 4,000 Malaysians who had already received temporary residence permits in Australia were to be granted the right to immigrate. Gillard's venture failed in the Australian Supreme Court. After this failed attempt, Gillard reactivated the camps on Manus and Nauru , which are located in third countries.

After Gillard was voted out of office in June 2013, Kevin Rudd became Prime Minister again and now he too wanted to intern all boat people in foreign camps. Rudd was defeated in the November 2013 election and the conservative Tony Abbott came to power. Abbott ran his “stop the boats” election campaign, also known as Operation Sovereign Borders . He thus continued the rigid migration policy initiated under Rudd after he took office on September 18, 2013 as Prime Minister, as did the subsequent government under Malcolm Turnbull , who has been Prime Minister since September 15, 2015.

The national liberal government under Tony Abbott came to power in 2013 and replaced the Ministry's previous name with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection . The Department of Immigration is currently (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

Web links

Department of Immigration and Border Protection (current website)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Marcus Mannheim: Cabinet archives 1992-93: Forget Tampa, boat people panic began under Keating , from January 1, 2017, on Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved April 22, 2017
^ Ting Walker: The High Court Decision to Malayian Solution , November 25, 2011, on ABC. Retrieved April 2, 2017
↑ Fergal Davis: The failure of Australia's 'Malaysia Solution' is a positive step for refugees , September 4, 2011, on The Guardian. Retrieved April 22, 2017
↑ Asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat to be resettled in Papua New Guinea , dated July 19, 2013, on ABC. Retrieved April 22, 2017
↑ Administrative Arrangements Order - 18/09/2013 . Commonwealth of Australia , September 13, 2013, p. 26 , accessed June 12, 2019 .

[mann-1] Marcus Mannheim: Cabinet archives 1992-93: Forget Tampa, boat people panic began under Keating , from January 1, 2017, on Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved April 22, 2017

[2] Ting Walker: The High Court Decision to Malayian Solution , November 25, 2011, on ABC. Retrieved April 2, 2017

[3] Fergal Davis: The failure of Australia's 'Malaysia Solution' is a positive step for refugees , September 4, 2011, on The Guardian. Retrieved April 22, 2017

[4] Asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat to be resettled in Papua New Guinea , dated July 19, 2013, on ABC. Retrieved April 22, 2017

[Administrative_Arrangements_Order-5] Administrative Arrangements Order - 18/09/2013 . Commonwealth of Australia , September 13, 2013, p. 26 , accessed June 12, 2019 .