Australian Immigration Daily News

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. 

The Office of the MARA has stated as follows to Migration Alliance this afternoon in relation to ImmiWork.com:

"The Office of the MARA have asked any RMA who has asked to have their profile removed, that they are removed.  The OMARA's preference is that only those people who have opted in are listed on the website, and this is still subject to advice OMARA are obtaining internally".

It is on that basis that the proposed interview with ImmiWork's Daniel Shabrokh will be postponed until further advice from the Office of the MARA.  

Could threatening your intimate partner in the context of a spouse 820/801 be relevant to a claim of "Family Violence"?

Apart from being behaviour that is less than optimal it appears that such behaviour will be relevant to the opinion of the IE.

http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/FCCA/2019/1560.html