Federation Chamber (part 3 of 3)
18 August 2026
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Federation Chamber Australian Parliament
00:00 - 02:52
Speaker 9
these 80 people in Wagga Wagga, which I took to Minister Burke, and I found the way he handled those very professional. I found the way he handled those particular cases very compassionately. And I do want to put that on the record because all too often all we ever see and hear about this particular parliament, and this particular, I say this level of parliament, is the argy-bargy and the fact that people don't get along. Well, they do. And there's a lot of bipartisanship goes into these migration matters.
And there's a lot of work that is done behind the scenes to help people to get citizenship, to help people with their visa cases. And one of the most difficult jobs in parliament is the immigration minister. It truly is. And they're often, you only ever read about the cases which don't go the way of some communities or families or individuals. And they make the media, they get headlines.
The shock jocks take great delight in trying to get the clickbait and the audience riled up. But what you do see in so many cases are the right decisions made for and on behalf of the families, in the national interest, by ministers, be it Labor, be it Liberal. And I say that because usually it's the Liberal minister in the coalition government that is the immigration minister, not the Nationals. But there's a lot of compassion shown and a lot of common sense shown. Doesn't make headlines, but it is the right thing to do.
The, these changes, as the minister said, apply to matters in the ART's migration caseload as well as other caseloads where written reasons may not always be required. As the minister pointed out, there are safeguards and guardrails around the particular legislation. He talks, the minister talks about applicants who fail to comply with the identity verification requirement in some of these proceedings would require leave of a court to continue proceedings. And where leave is not granted, you know, there would be the ability for proceedings to be dismissed. But giving the president of the ART the authorisation to registrars to exercise additional powers, including the reinstatement applications in certain circumstances, the ability to dismiss applications if satisfied there are no reasonable prospects of success.
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