Michael Joseph Carmody is a retired senior Australian public servant. He was the Commissioner of Taxation of the Commonwealth of Australia from January 1993 to 31 December 2005 and the chief executive officer of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service until 4 September 2012.
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) was a department of the Government of Australia that was responsible for immigration,citizenship and border control. It has now been subsumed into the Department of Home Affairs,which combines its responsibilities with a number of other portfolios.
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) is an Australian Government public service central department of state with broad ranging responsibilities,primary of which is for intergovernmental and whole of government policy coordination and assisting the prime minister of Australia in managing the Cabinet of Australia. The PM&C was established in 1971 and traces its origins back to the Prime Minister's Department established in 1911.
Peter Joseph Noozhumurry Varghese is an Australian retired diplomat and public servant. He was the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 3 December 2012 to 22 July 2016. He announced in November 2015 that he would leave the position in July 2016 to become the chancellor of the University of Queensland.
The Minister for Home Affairs is the minister in the Australian government responsible for the Department of Home Affairs,the country's interior ministry. The current minister is Clare O'Neil of the Labor Party,who has held the position since 1 June 2022 in the Albanese ministry.
Martin Gerard Bowles is an Australian healthcare executive,and former senior public servant. He is currently the national CEO of Calvary Health Care,and was previously Secretary of the Department of Health (2014–17) and the Department of Immigration (2012–14) in the Australian public service.
The Australian Customs Service was an Australian Government agency responsible for Australian border protection,duties and taxes between 1985 and 2009. The Service was first under the portfolio of the Department of Industry,Technology and Commerce from 1985 to 1998 and then the Attorney-General's Department from 1998 to 2009.
Alan Tudge is an Australian former politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives between 2010 and 2023. He was a cabinet minister in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022.
Richard Campbell "Ric" Smith is a former senior Australian public servant and diplomat. He served as the Australian Ambassador to China (1996–2000),Australian Ambassador to Indonesia during the time of the 2002 Bali bombings (2001–2002),and Secretary of the Department of Defence (2002–2006). In April 2009,Smith was appointed as Australia's Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Frances Jennifer Adamson,is an Australian public servant and diplomat who is the 36th Governor of South Australia,in office since 7 October 2021. She previously served as Australian Ambassador to China from 2011 to 2015 and as secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2016 to 2021.
The Cape class is a ship class of 22 large patrol boats operated by the Marine Unit of the Australian Border Force,the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard. Ordered in 2011,the vessels were built by Austal to replace Customs' Bay-class patrol boats,and entered service from 2013 onwards. Following availability issues with the Armidale class,two vessels were chartered by the RAN from mid-2015 to late 2016. A further two vessels were ordered at the end of 2015 by the National Australia Bank,who will charter the patrol boats to the Department of Defence from completion in 2017. 2 vessels were ordered by Trinidad and Tobago for their coast guard in 2018 with the vessels delivered in 2021. The RAN placed an order for six 'Evolved' Cape-class vessels in 2020,a second order in 2022 for an additional two vessels,and a third order in 2023 for a further two vessels.
Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB) is a border protection operation led by the Australian Border Force,aimed at stopping maritime arrivals of asylum seekers to Australia. The operation is the outcome of a 2013 federal election policy of the Coalition,which commenced on 18 September 2013 after the election of the Abbott government. The operation has implemented a "zero tolerance" posture towards what it has termed "Illegal Maritime Arrivals" −a change in terminology from the previous government's "Irregular Maritime Arrivals" −in Australia,in conjunction with mandatory detention in offshore detention facilities.
Christopher Conybeare is a retired Australian senior public servant.
Andrew Edgar Francis Metcalfe,is a former senior Australian public servant and policymaker who was Secretary of the Department of Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry until 4 August 2023 when he retired. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. He was a Partner at Ernst and Young,Canberra in its Government and Public Sector team from 2014-19. Metcalfe was appointed by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC MP to the role of lead reviewer of the Family Relationships Services Program on 15 November 2023,with a 30 June 2024 deadline by which to complete the review.
William Beal Pritchett was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Defence between 1979 and 1984.
Michael Joseph Thawley,is a former senior Australian public servant. From December 2014 to January 2016 he was Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
The Australian Border Force (ABF) is a federal law enforcement agency,part of the Department of Home Affairs,responsible for offshore and onshore border enforcement,investigations,compliance,detention operations and customs services in Australia. Through the ABFs Marine Unit,the ABF performs Coast Guard and marine law enforcement duties and is a component of the Maritime Border Command. The ABF is also part of the National Intelligence Community and is an active member of the World Customs Organization.
Roman Alexander Quaedvlieg is an Australian former public servant and police officer who was the Commissioner of the Australian Border Force (ABF) from 1 July 2015 until May 2017 when he was put on paid leave while an investigation took place. He was dismissed from the position in March 2018 after an investigation found that he had failed to comply with disclosure requirements regarding a relationship with a woman.
The Department of Home Affairs is the Australian Government interior ministry with responsibilities for national security,law enforcement,emergency management,border control,immigration,refugees,citizenship,transport security and multicultural affairs. The portfolio also includes federal agencies such as the Australian Border Force and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. The Home Affairs portfolio reports to the Minister for Home Affairs,currently held by Clare O'Neil,and was led by the Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs,Mike Pezzullo,until his sacking in November 2023 for breaching the code of conduct. In 2022,the Australian Federal Police,Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and Australian Transaction and Analysis Center were de-merged from the department and moved to the Attorney General portfolio.
