| Description |
xxviii, 150 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Parliamentary paper / the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, 0727-4281 ; no. 12 of 1998 |
|
Performance audit / Australian National Audit Office |
|
The Auditor-General audit report, 1036-7632 ; no. 32, 97-98 |
|
Australian National Audit Office.
Performance audit
|
|
Audit report (Australian National Audit Office) ; 1997-98, no. 32
|
|
Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; 1998, no. 12
|
| Contents |
Part 1. Summary -- Key findings -- Recommendations -- pt. 2. Introduction -- Detection -- Reception -- Detention -- Other issues -- Entry to the refugee determination system -- Costs -- Conclusion: boat people and risk management -- Appendix 1. Court cases cited in the report -- Appendix 2. Legislation relevant to boat people -- Appendix 3. Boat people and the court system -- Appendix 4. Literature of refugee law -- Appendix 5. Costs of the management of boat people, 1995-96 -- Appendix 6. Public sector agencies involved with boat people -- Appendix 7. Immigration detention and the law -- Appendix 8. Court criticism of a boat person removal -- Appendix 9. Performance audits in the Immigration and Multicultural Affairs portfolio |
| Summary |
This audit covers the management of a particular class of unauthorised arrivals; namely, those people who have come by boat to the north-west of Australia, and who intend staying. The objective of the audit was to assess the economy, efficiency and administrative effectiveness, including accountability, of the management of boat people by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) and the providers of major related services to DIMA such as: the Coastwatch Service within the Australian Customs Service, and the Australian Protective Service within the Attorney-General's portfolio (APS). DIMA's relationship with the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) was included in the audit but the RRT itself was not audited. This report is in two main parts, the first addressing the detection, reception detention and removal of boat people, and the second the refugee determination system. The ANAO has made 14 recommendations directed at improving the economy, efficiency and administrative effectiveness, including accountability, of the management of boat people. Thirteen of these recommendations were relevant to DIMA, two to APS and one to Coastwatch. DIMA agreed with 11 of the recommendations, including two with qualifications, and disagreed with two. The APS and Coastwatch agreed with the recommendations relevant to them |
| Analysis |
Asia, Southeast |
|
Audit reports |
|
Australian Customs Service |
|
Australian Protective Service |
|
Cost effectiveness analysis |
|
Dept of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs |
|
Federal issue |
|
Illegal immigrants |
|
Program management |
|
Public sector efficiency |
|
Refugees |
| Notes |
"Audit team: Paul Nicoll, Ian MacLean, John Guilfoyle" -- P. iv |
|
Includes index |
|
Also published as a Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; 12/1998 |
|
Commonwealth of Australia 1998 |
| Subject |
Australia. Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs -- Auditing.
|
|
Australian Customs Service. Coastwatch Subprogram. -- Auditing
|
|
Australian Protective Service -- Auditing
|
|
Noncitizens -- Australia.
|
|
Refugees -- Australia.
|
| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007504
|
| Subject |
Illegal immigration -- Australia.
|
| Author |
Guilfoyle, John
|
|
Maclean, Ian, Dr
|
|
Nicoll, Paul.
|
| ISSN |
1036-7632 |
| ISBN |
0644391529 |
|
