Australian Immigration Daily News

Qantas will start non-stop flights from Brisbane to Chicago and San Francisco from April next year under a deal secured by the Palaszczuk Government.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the flights operating four times a week to Chicago and three times a week to San Francisco would pump more than $150 million into the Queensland economy over the next three years.

“As the world’s largest economy, the United States offers enormous potential for inbound tourism to Queensland,” the Premier said.

I have!

Just last week, in fact!

What would you make of this scenario:

Do the Tribunal’s decisions (or the Department’s) sometimes drive you up a wall?

Can they, on occasion, seem at odds with the plain, obvious evidence that has been submitted to the Tribunal?

It is for exactly these circumstances, dear readers, that judicial review proceedings exist: when it is clear that the Tribunal has “gotten it wrong” then the remedy is to take the case to the Federal Circuit Court, and if necessary, on to the Federal Court on appeal, to get the error corrected and to get the case sent back to the Tribunal for reconsideration.

Below is the AAT Bulletin for 17 June 2019.  Citizenship decisions are on page 3, and Migration decisions are on page 4.

https://www.aat.gov.au/AAT/media/AAT/Files/AAT%20Bulletins/24-19.pdf

Australia and Malaysia launched Operation Redback XIII today, a joint border protection exercise to  fight maritime crime in the Malacca Strait. 

The thirteenth iteration of Operation Redback is being held from 17 to 21 June 2019 and will see  more than 80 officers from the Australian Border Force (ABF) and Malaysia Coast Guard (MCG) come  together in Klang, Malaysia. 

Through the joint operation, ABF and MCG officers will build their operational skills and enhance  their preparedness for combating a range of maritime threats including people smuggling, terrorism  and human trafficking.