Accountability for Detaining and Removing Unlawful Non-Citizens

Commonwealth Ombudsman, Report on the Inquiry into the Circumstances of the Vivian Alvarez Matter, Report under the Ombudsman Act 1976 by the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Professor John McMillan, of an inquiry undertaken by Mr Neil Comrie AO APM, Report No. 03 2005, xv (Commonwealth Ombudsman Report).

Commonwealth of Australia, Report on the Inquiry into the Circumstances of the Immigration Detention of Cornelia Rau, July 2005, 23 (Palmer Inquiry Report).

Ibid.

Ibid 21–28; Commonwealth Ombudsman Report, xi.

Commonwealth Ombudsman Report, xi.

Palmer Inquiry Report, viii.

Ibid 26–27.

Hughes O E , Public Management and Administration (3rd ed, 2003) 1.

Hunt Murray , ‘Constitutionalism and the Contractualisation of Government in the United Kingdom’ in Taggart Michael (ed), The Province of Administrative Law (1997) 21.

Ibid.

Airo-Farulla Geoff White Steven , ‘Separation of Powers, ‘Traditional’ Administration and Responsive Regulation’ (2004) 4 Macquarie Law Journal 57–80, 57.

Aronson M , Judicial Review of Administrative Action (3rd ed, 2004) 177.

Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs, Re; Ex parte Applicants S134/2002 (2003) 211 CLR 441 [48] ( Gleeson CJ McHugh Gummow Hayne Callinan JJ ). See also: Ibid [100] ( Gaudron Kirby JJ ); Bedlington v Chong (1998) 87 FCR 75; Morato v Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs (No 2) (1992) 39 FCR 401.

Crock Mary , ‘Judging Refugees: The Clash of Power and Institutions in the Development of Australian Refugee Law’ (2004) 26 Sydney Law Review 51, 53.

Palmer Inquiry Report, Appendix A, 196.

Commonwealth Ombudsman Report, 5. Also see the evidence of Mr Neil Comrie to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References and Legislation Committee Inquiry into the administration and operation of the Migration Act, Commonwealth of Australia, Hansard, Senate, Tuesday 8 November 2005, 30.

Palmer Inquiry Report, ix (main finding 8), xi (main finding 17).

Commonwealth Ombudsman Report, x (main finding 5) 31–42.

Palmer Inquiry Report, xi (main finding 16); xiii (main findings 32–3).

Commonwealth Ombudsman Report, x (main finding 8); Palmer Inquiry Report, x (main findings 14 and 15).

Commonwealth Ombudsman Report, x (main finding 9).

Palmer Inquiry Report (main findings 6, 13, 29).

See, eg Australian National Audit Office, Management of the Detention Centre Contracts — Part B: Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs. Audit Report No.1, ANAO, Canberra, 2005–06.

Senate Legal and Constitutional References and Legislation Committee Inquiry into the administration and operation of the Migration Act, Commonwealth of Australia, Hansard, Senate, Tuesday 8 November 2005, 30.

Commonwealth Ombudsman Report, Appendix C, 89–93.

South Brisbane Immigration and Community Legal Service, Submission 200, Senate Legal and Constitutional References and Legislation Committee Inquiry into the administration and operation of the Migration, <http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/migration/submissions/sublist.htm> at 20 November 2005, 5–6.

Law Council of Australia, Submission 233, Senate Legal and Constitutional References and Legislation Committee Inquiry into the administration and operation of the Migration Act 1958 <http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/migration/submissions/sublist.htm> at 20 November 2005, 6.

Ibid.

Taggart Michael , ‘The Province of Administrative Law Determined?’ in Taggart Michael (ed), The Province of Administrative Law (1997) 3.

Aronson Mark , ‘A Public Lawyer's Response to Privatisation and Outsourcing’ in Taggart Michael (ed), The Province of Administrative Law (1997) 40–70 (arguing that as the forms and sites of government become mixed, legal mechanisms for dealing with government must also change form).

(2003) 211 CLR 476.

[2005] FCA 549 (5 May 2005) [199].

Secretary, DIMIA v Mastipour [2004] FCA FC 93 [17] (Selway J).

Aronson , above n 30, 68.

Ibid.

Airo-Farulla Geoff White Steven , ‘Separation of Powers, ‘Traditional’ Administration and Responsive Regulation’ (2004) 4 Macquarie Law Journal 57–80.