Asylum seekers will face a stronger regime to decide their claims to stay in Australia amid concerns some migrants are working for up to 11 years while waiting for their cases to be decided.
Asylum seekers will face a stronger regime to decide their claims to stay in Australia under a dramatic shift in federal policy to act on concerns that some migrants are working for up to 11 years while waiting for their cases to be decided.
But experts dismissed the opposition leader’s key claim by noting that the Coalition had overseen the increase in asylum seekers in Australia to 94,260 over nine years to May last year, while another 10,416 arrived under Labor.With the government turning the issue into a test of Dutton’s time in office, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil cited a review by former Victorian police commissioner Christine Nixon as proof the Coalition had allowed rampant exploitation of the visa system.
“What did I do when I was immigration minister? Well, we stopped the boats. Under Labor, they had 50,000 people arrive on 800 boats and 1200 people drowned at sea. They put children into detention. So, not only did we stop the boats, we kept the boats stopped,” he said.
The government will spend $57 million to add 10 members to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and 10 judges to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, where many of the claims are ultimately decided. This is in addition to 93 appointments to the tribunal under separate policies that will restructure and rename it the Administrative Review Tribunal.
Another $38 million will be spent on the Australian Skills Quality Authority in the hope it will stop fraud among vocational education providers who bring migrants to “ghost colleges” so they can work while pretending to study.“Labor’s presided over 105,000 asylum seekers over the course of the last 15 months – a record number in our country,” he said.
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