Tribunal: Member Paul Windsor An application made by a family of three for Protection visas was refused by a delegate of the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Applicant 1 was making a claim for protection and applicants 2 and 3 applied as members of the famil...
Tribunal: Member Jane Marquard An application made by a family of three for Protection visas was refused by a delegate of the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Applicant 1 made a claim for protection and applicants 2 and 3 applied as members of the family uni...
Please check this page regularly for updates. On 14 October 2024, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) will be replaced by a new body, called the Administrative Review Tribunal (‘the new Tribunal’). All cases that are before the AAT will automatically transfer to t...
Tribunal : Member T Flood A mother and daughter applied for review of decisions made by the Department of Home Affairs to refuse their applications for protection visas. Australia has an obligation under the Migration Act 1958 to protect individuals who can satisfy one o...
Tribunal: Member R Smidt Australia has an obligation under the Migration Act 1958 to protect individuals who can satisfy one of two criteria. [1] The ‘refugee criterion’ broadly requires the applicant to have a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’ [2] should they be ...
Tribunal: Deputy President S Boyle The applicant is a registered training organisation and the respondent is the Australian Skills Quality Authority. Following an audit which found the applicant to be non-compliant with certain requirements of the legislation, the Chief Co...
Tribunal Member: Andrew Maryniak QC The research and development (R&D) tax incentive is a program that allows businesses to access tax offsets for the money they spend on R&D activities. These R&D activities must be registered with Innovation and Science Australia (the respo...
Tribunal: Member Alison Murphy The Department of Home Affairs (the Department) cancelled the applicant’s Protection visa because it found that the applicant had provided incorrect information in her application for the visa. [1] The applicant applied to the AAT for ...
Tribunal: Member J Cripps-Watts The AAT remitted the decision not to grant a Distinguished Talent (Residence) visa, instead asking the Department to reconsider in light of evidence that the applicant was eminent in the field of international trade negotiation. The Disting...
Tribunal: Member K Parker In this interlocutory decision, the AAT excluded a father from representing his adult son in an ongoing National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) matter. The Tribunal found the father was unwilling and unable to act in his son’s best interests. ...
Tribunal: Member N Goetz The AAT remitted a decision of a delegate of the Minister for Immigration (the Department) to refuse to a subclass 600 family sponsored stream visitor visa. The Department had refused the visa because they were not satisfied the applicant would sta...
TRIBUNAL : Member M Foster The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) affirmed, without a hearing, a decision to refuse a protection visa as they found the applicant was not a person in respect of whom Australia has protection obligations. In 2015, the applicant, who claime...
In 2019, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) will continue the expanded format for the popular Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) competition: Negotiating Outcomes on Time (Noot). This year, the Noot will be offered to law schools from Western Australia in addition ...
The time it takes for us to complete the review process depends on a range of factors, including: the number of applications we receive the number of members available to conduct reviews the type of decision under review the strategies we have in place for dealin...
What is a hearing? Where will the hearing be held? Who will be at the hearing? How can I prepare for a hearing? What happens at a hearing? What happens if I do not attend a hearing? Access to hearing information What is a hearing? The hearing is an ...
PDF version (98 KB) Address given at the Ceremonial Sitting of the Legislative Assembly 27 October 2010 Madam Speaker, Chief Minister, Mr Attorney, other Ministers, members of the Legislative Assembly. It is a very great privilege for me to have been invited to addres...
What is a hearing? Where will the hearing be held? Who will be at the hearing? How can I prepare for a hearing? What happens at a hearing? What happens if I do not attend a hearing? Access to hearing information What is a hearing? The hearing is an ...
What is a hearing? Where will the hearing be held? Who will be at the hearing? How can I prepare for a hearing? What happens at a hearing? What happens if I do not attend a hearing? Access to hearing information What is a hearing? The hearing is an ...
Service Charter (PDF, 138 KB) This charter sets out: the AAT's commitments to our users how to give us feedback our contact details. Our service standard We aim to provide a mechanism of review that: is accessible; and is fair, just, economical, informal and qu...
PDF version (52 KB) AIAL 2011 National Administrative Law Conference - Democracy, participation and administrative law, Canberra 22 July 2011 Also published in (2011) 67 AIAL FORUM 39. The theme of this conference is 'democracy, participation and administrative law'...
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