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FTZK v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection: Over-zealous judicial review?

In this post Anna Olijnyk examines the High Court’s recent decision in FTZK v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection.  The case involved judicial review of a migration decision made by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.  The High Court’s reasoning subjects the decision of an administrative tribunal to a level of scrutiny more commonly applied to […]

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UPCOMING EVENT – Australian Lawyers for Human Rights Refugee Policy Forum

In August 2012, in response to an Expert Panel report on Refugee Policy (the Houston report), the Federal Government began a dramatic shift in its refugee policy. Since that time, the government has: re-opened regional processing centres in Nauru and Manus Island; excised the whole of the Australian mainland from the migration zone; introduced a […]

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