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The question on how to treat foreigners and the Australian immigration process has long occupied a central place in Australia’s national conscience. In 1958, the Minister for Immigration, the Hon. A.R. Downer introduced the migration laws we use today, had been a prisoner of war in Changi. His experiences is reflected in a more humane approach to the treatment of migrants, where he describes the Migration Act as the “Finest immigration charter that the world has yet seen”.
Over the next 60 years, each Government since has sought to impose its own peculiar Australian migration policy, resulting in a unique mixture of drafting styles and policy objectives producing the current immigration landscape we see today. As long as Australia remains a popular destination for migrants seeking visas from around the world; the Department, tribunals and courts will be called upon to interpret the various provisions of Australian immigration law.
The Department forecasted that yearly immigration was set to increase to 525,300 by June 2019. A large number of those whose migration applications returned a visa refusal sought to challenge the Australian visa rejection decision made against them. In the year ending June 2015, a total of 18,534 appeals made up of visa refusals and visa cancellations were made to the tribunals in Australia. By the end of December 2018, visa refusals and visa cancellations had climbed tremendously by 62.5%. In turn, these figures translated into a significant amount of judicial review cases before the courts. Thus over 90% of all applications for constitutional writs made to the High Court in those past 5 years have been migration matters. The volume of visa cases the Federal Circuit Court and Federal Court heard, dramatically increased by approximately 36% each year.
The result is that the Migration Act is one of the most litigated piece of legislation in the country. This is why Australian migration representation matters.
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