Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, upon notice, on 15 June 2011:

(1) (a) How many asylum seekers are currently being housed at Jandakot Airport Chalets; and (b) when was the first asylum seeker transferred there.

(2) What are the nationalities of these asylum seekers.

(3) From where were these asylum seekers transferred.

(4) Have the asylum seekers being housed at Jandakot Airport Chalets all been security assessed by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

(ASIO) and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC); if not,why not.

(5) How were the asylum seekers, to be transferred to Jandakot Airport

Chalets, selected.

(6) What is the period of the current lease agreement to house asylum seekers

at the Jandakot Airport Chalets.

(7) Does the lease include an option or options to extend; if so, for what period.

(8) What is the amount per night that the Government is paying to Jandakot Airport Chalets to house each asylum seeker.

(9) What is the amount per week that the Government is paying to Jandakot Airport Chalets to house each asylum seeker.

(10) Will the Australian Government be providing any financial assistance to Jandakot Airport Chalets to enable them to recommence their commercial

activities once the lease has been finalised; if so, how much; if not, why not.

(11) What sections of the Airports Act 1996 allow for the usage of the accommodation at Jandakot Airport Chalets to house asylum seekers.

(12) Which sections of the Jandakot Airport Master Plan 2009 allow for the usage of the accommodation at Jandakot Airport Chalets to house asylum seekers.

(13) With reference to a media release from the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport (Mr Albanese), dated 19 March 2010, in which he states:

The Rudd Labor Government believes that aviation-related development must be the overriding priority at airports.

We are preparing to introduce legislation later this year to strengthen community consultation and approval processes for major developments at airports. This legislation, which was flagged in the National Aviation White Paper, will require any development that may have a significant community impact, regardless of size or cost, to be subject to a major development plan requiring Commonwealth approval, as well as extensive community consultation:

(a) how does housing asylum seekers at the Jandakot Airport site equate to aviation-related development;

(b) what consultation occurred between DIAC and the Department of Infrastructure and Transport prior to the asylum seekers being transferred to Jandakot Airport Chalets and when did the consultation occur;

(c) what broader community consultation was carried out; if none, why was this not undertaken;

(d) what consultation occurred with the aviation training providers at Jandakot Airport, whose students utilize the short term accommodation previously available at Jandakot Airport Chalets; if none, why was this not undertaken.