Department of Immigration and Border Protection
DIBP
18 September 2013 – 20 December 2017
Previously Department of Immigration and Citizenship (2007–2013). Renamed Department of Home Affairs in 2017.
Department of State responsible for immigration and visas, citizenship, the refugee and humanitarian program and border protection, and from July 2015 for customs and border enforcement through the Australian Border Force.
Names over time
- Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs1975–1987
- Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs1987–1993
- Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs1993–1996
- Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs1996–2001
- Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs2001–2006
- Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs2006–2007
- Department of Immigration and Citizenship2007–2013
- Department of Immigration and Border Protection2013–2017
- Department of Home Affairs2017–present
How it came into existence
Created by the Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 September 2013 when the Department of Immigration and Citizenship was renamed at the start of the Abbott government, with settlement services and multicultural affairs going to the Department of Social Services and the Adult Migrant English Program to the Department of Industry. Scott Morrison became Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, and the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service joined the portfolio.
- Immigration and visas
- Citizenship
- Refugee and humanitarian program
- Immigration detention
- Customs and border control policy responsibility (the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service portfolio)
The Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 September 2013 moved the customs and border control matter, and the Service with it, from the Attorney-General's portfolio; the Service itself was merged into the department on 1 July 2015.
Changes during its life
- 1 July 2015The Australian Border Force was established within the department under the Australian Border Force Act 2015 as its operational border enforcement arm, when the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service was merged into the department.
- Customs and border control
- Trade and passenger processing at the border
- Civil maritime surveillance (Border Protection Command)
- Immigration compliance and enforcement
- Immigration detention
- Investigations
How it ended
Renamed the Department of Home Affairs on 20 December 2017, becoming the central department of a new Home Affairs portfolio that combined immigration, border protection, national security, law enforcement and emergency management.
- Immigration and citizenship
- Border protection and the Australian Border Force
- Customs
Main functions
- Immigration and visa programs
- Citizenship
- Refugee and humanitarian program and regional processing arrangements
- Border protection, including Operation Sovereign Borders
- Customs and border enforcement (Australian Border Force, from July 2015)
- Immigration detention
Bodies in this portfolio (4)
- Refugee Review Tribunal 1993–2015
- Migration Review Tribunal 1999–2015
- Border Protection Command 2006–2015
- Australian Customs and Border Protection Service 2009–2015
Lineage
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Sources
Primary sources
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 September 2013 (created it)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 1 September 2016, as amended to 13 April 2017 (sets it out)
8 more Administrative Arrangements Orders set it out
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 12 December 2013 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 23 December 2014 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 9 July 2015 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 30 September 2015 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 30 September 2015, as amended to 18 February 2016 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 30 September 2015, as amended to 19 July 2016 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 1 September 2016 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 1 September 2016, as amended to 27 October 2016 (sets it out)
- Australian Government Organisations Register (Department of Finance, data.gov.au) (listed from 11 December 2014 to 30 September 2017)
- Administrative Arrangements Order, 18 September 2013 (Federal Register of Legislation, C2013G01404)