• Source: Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

The Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs is a ministerial post of the Australian Government and is currently held by Tony Burke since July 2024 in the Albanese ministry.
The post was created in 1945 and its inaugural officeholder was Arthur Calwell as the Minister for Immigration. On 20 December 2017, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull introduced a new major portfolio responsible for national security: Home Affairs. The Hon Peter Dutton retained the duties of Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, with additional responsibilities awarded as the Minister for Home Affairs. Following the appointment of Prime Minister Scott Morrison in August 2018, Morrison re-appointed Peter Dutton to the Home Affairs Ministry, previously introduced to the 'super-Ministry' under the Turnbull government in December 2017, and appointed David Coleman as Immigration Minister.




Scope


The portfolio and department were created in July 1945, during the last months of World War II. Previously, immigration affairs were handled by the Minister for Home Affairs (1901–1932) and the Minister for the Interior (1932–1945), except that between January 1925 and January 1928 Victor Wilson and Thomas Paterson were Ministers for Markets and Migration.
The Minister for Immigration, Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship was usually one of the senior members of Cabinet, although between the Tenth Menzies Ministry and the Third Fraser Ministry, the post was downgraded to that of a junior minister. The minister and department have on several occasions been responsible for another portfolio in addition to immigration, such as ethnic/multicultural affairs, local government or border protection.




List of ministers for immigration


The following individuals have held responsibility for immigration:

Notes

1 Barnard was one of a two-man ministry consisting of himself and Gough Whitlam for two weeks until the full ministry was announced.




List of ministers for citizenship and multicultural affairs


On 24 July 1987 (1987-07-24) the third Hawke ministry implemented a two-level ministerial structure, with distinctions drawn between senior and junior ministers. This arrangement has been continued by subsequent governments; although there has not always been a junior minister in the immigration portfolio. Senior ministers are shown above. Junior ministers are shown below. The following individuals have held responsibility for citizenship and multicultural affairs or any precedent titles:




Assistant ministers






= Assistant ministers for immigration

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The following individuals served as the Assistant Minister for Immigration, or any precedent titles:




= Assistant ministers for citizenship and multicultural affairs

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The following individuals served as the Assistant Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, or any precedent titles:




References






External links


Official website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Rageh Omaar
• Jepang
• Genosida Yunani
• Melbourne
• Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
• Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
• Department of Home Affairs (Australia)
• Department of Immigration and Border Protection
• Philip Ruddock
• Minister for Multiculturalism
• Amanda Vanstone
• Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Yusuf
• Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (2006–07)
• Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (1996–2001)