Bill
Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014
passed, as at 2014-12-15. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-09-25
- second reading — 2014-09-25
- second reading — 2014-10-22
- second reading — 2014-10-22
- third reading — 2014-10-22
- introduced — 2014-10-28
- second reading — 2014-10-28
- second reading — 2014-12-03
- second reading — 2014-12-04
- second reading — 2014-12-04
- committee — 2014-12-04
- third reading — 2014-12-04
- other — 2014-12-05
- passed — 2014-12-05
- royal assent — 2014-12-15
Divisions
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - Second Reading - End debate on bill's main idea — 2014-10-22, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 83, noes 52
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea — 2014-10-22, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 83, noes 52
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - Consideration of Senate Message - Agree with Senate's amendments — 2014-12-04, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 76, noes 39
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Process unprocessed claims and release detained children — 2014-12-04, Senate: negative, ayes 32, noes 34
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea — 2014-12-04, Senate: affirmative, ayes 34, noes 32
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - in Committee - Safe Haven Enterprise Visa — 2014-12-04, Senate: affirmative, ayes 35, noes 31
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - in Committee - Government amendments — 2014-12-04, Senate: affirmative, ayes 35, noes 31
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - in Committee - Include Minister's promise to increase intake in bill — 2014-12-04, Senate: negative, ayes 31, noes 33
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - in Committee - Keep schedule 3 as it is — 2014-12-04, Senate: affirmative, ayes 48, noes 10
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - in Committee - Permanent visas for Safe Haven Enterprise Visa holders — 2014-12-04, Senate: negative, ayes 32, noes 34
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - in Committee - Remove temporary protection visas — 2014-12-04, Senate: negative, ayes 32, noes 34
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - in Committee - Keep schedule 4 as it is — 2014-12-04, Senate: affirmative, ayes 34, noes 32
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - in Committee - Keep schedule 5 as it is — 2014-12-04, Senate: affirmative, ayes 34, noes 32
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - in Committee - Agree with the amended bill — 2014-12-04, Senate: affirmative, ayes 34, noes 32
- Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 - Third Reading - Pass the bill — 2014-12-04, Senate: affirmative, ayes 34, noes 32
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-09-25.
This bill would change how Australia handles people smuggling and asylum seekers both at sea and on land.
It would give the government stronger maritime enforcement powers, create temporary protection visas, and set up a fast-track assessment process for certain asylum claims.
The bill would let the minister cap the number of protection visas granted each year and remove the 90-day deadline for deciding such visas.
- Reinforces maritime enforcement powers to stop people smuggling ventures at sea.
- Introduces Temporary Protection Visas and Safe Haven Enterprise Visas for unauthorised arrivals who qualify for protection.
- Creates a fast-track assessment process that bypasses the Refugee Review Tribunal for some applicants.
- Codifies Australia's interpretation of its refugee obligations under the Refugees Convention into the Migration Act.
- Retrospectively clarifies that children born to unauthorised maritime arrivals or transitory persons are also treated as such.
- Restores the government's ability to set a statutory limit on protection visas granted per year and removes the 90-day decision requirement.
Asylum seekers who arrive illegally in Australia, including unauthorised maritime arrivals and transitory persons, as well as government officers and agencies involved in maritime operations and protection assessments.
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