Australian Immigration Daily News

The AAT Bulletin has been released.  

Citizenship decisions are on page 3.  Migration Decisions are on page 5.

AAT-Bulletin-19-August-2019.pdf

The following items will be provided to attendees at Migration 2019 which will be taking place at the Wesley Conference Centre on the 15th November 2019. 

The Department of Home Affairs and Border Force will be presenting on the day so come along and hear about all the changes coming in on 16th November 2019.  

To find out more about the conference schedule, or the sit down gourmet lunch, please click here>

Migration Newsletter 733 is now available.  It is an excellent read:

Migration_Newsletter_733.05-1.pdf

The Australian Government's Department of Home Affairs have announced that the last day for states and territories to nominate and issue invitations for the subclass 489 applicants will be 10 September 2019.

MigrationNT will stop accepting subclass 489 visa nomination applications on the following dates:

• offshore applicants - close of business on 30 August 2019
• onshore applicants - close of business on 6 September 2019.

Applicants should make note of the following:

In the period 2006 to 2012, Ms Banerji, an employee of the then Department of Immigration and Citizenship, tweeted approximately 9000 times under the handle "LeLegale". These tweets were largely posted in her own time and from her own device. Her tweets were critical of the Department and its immigration policies. After conducting a Code of Conduct investigation, the Department found Ms Banerji had breached the APS Code of Conduct.

The High Court decision

The Commonwealth appealed the AAT decision to the High Court, who unanimously found that Ms Banerji’s termination of employment was not unlawful and she and was not entitled to compensation under the SRC Act. The High Court stated that the relevant Public Service Act 1999 provisions that effectively placed a burden on the implied freedom of political communication were for a "legitimate purpose" consistent with the system of representative and responsible government in the Constitution.