Michelle Rowland (Greenway, Australian Labor Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for her contribution. The government will not be supporting these amendments to the Administrative Review Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025. The government considers the regulation-making power necessary to ensure that the government can support the Administrative Review Tribunal to appropriately respond to changes in its case load in a more flexible way. As a regulation it would, of course, be subject to disallowance by the parliament, as is appropriate. Importantly, the ability to apply the 'on the papers' process to other visa types could only apply to reviewable migration decisions, expressly excluding protection visa matters in recognition that these are, generally, more complex.

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