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Blueprint for Integration BLUEPRINT FOR INTEGRATION © Commonwealth of Australia 2014 With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, all material presented in this publication is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en). For the avoidance of doubt, this means this licence only applies to material as set out in this document. The details of the relevant licence conditions are available on the Creative Commons website (accessible using the links provided) as is the full legal code for the CC BY 3.0 AU licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode). Use of the Coat of Arms The terms under which the Coat of Arms can be used are detailed on the It’s an Honour website—www.itsanhonour.gov.au. Contact us Enquiries regarding the licence and any use of this document are welcome at: Communications and Media Branch Department of Immigration and Border Protection PO Box 25 BELCONNEN ACT 2616 JOINT FOREWORD Working together with the professional and dedicated people of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, we have the opportunity to create history as we integrate our functions into a new Department and establish the Australian Border Force. Our job is crucial to preserving and proud historical traditions use of technology and revise our nation’s sovereignty. The of the two organisations we our business processes to broad remit and focus of our are bringing together. The ensure we maintain pace with new Department means we will historical traditions from which our environment and that touch every part of Australian we come provide a strong you are well supported by life—industry and commerce, foundation to form a new sense technology and equipment trade and travel, our national of mission and a new culture. to achieve our mission. security, the protection of our community and the enforcement This Blueprint describes what As you are our most important of our laws, the security of our we are responsible for, our asset, we are committed to offshore maritime resources challenges and opportunities, building capability that supports and environment and the and the timeframes for early you with access to improved collection of revenue for the integration. With you we will learning and development Australian Government. build a high-performance opportunities, active career organisation that demonstrates management, and a diversity This change will make Australia positive values, behaviours and of job choices throughout your a safer and more prosperous professional standards to each career in the new Department nation. We cannot make this other and our stakeholders. and Australian Border Force. change alone. To achieve our Most importantly, you will mission—to protect Australia’s We want our new Department to be supported by strong borders and manage the design and develop innovative and effective leadership. movement of people and goods policy and solutions that across it—we will rely on every assist our stakeholders and As an organisation with a one of our dedicated staff in the community. We also need significant global footprint, coming days, months and years. to have systems in place that we will increasingly focus on support us to effectively facilitate opportunities to influence and As we integrate over the next and enforce our immigration, achieve border protection nine months and establish humanitarian, travel, trade, outcomes offshore. Together, the Australian Border Force, citizenship, offshore maritime we will need to be cognisant it will be crucially important to security and revenue objectives. of the threats our organisation preserve and honour the long We will need to optimise the faces, including from organised 2 Blueprint for Integration A NEW DEPARTMENT In May 2014, the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection announced significant changes to how we protect and manage Australia’s borders to enhance our national security and to create an even stronger national economy. This will be a once-in-a-generation change. From 1 July 2015, the functions of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service will be integrated into a new Department, and a new front-line operational agency, the Australian Border Force, will be established within the new Department. The new Department of Immigration and Border Protection will for the first time bring together into a single policy space traditional immigration and customs border policy. The Department’s remit will include refugee and humanitarian programmes, immigration and citizenship, trade and customs, offshore maritime security and revenue collection. The new Department will lead the policy, regulatory and corporate services for the organisation, including the Australian Border Force. The Australian Border Force, as the operational enforcement entity within the Department, will focus on our investigations, compliance and detention operations offshore and onshore, across our air and seaports, and land and maritime domains. 4 Blueprint for Integration Our history We have proud organisational histories that have helped build and protect Australia since Federation. Both agencies have worked closely together in key operating environments for many years. Established in 1945, the to achieving a cohesive Equally, the Australian Customs Department of Immigration society. A special ceremony and Border Protection Service was setup in the aftermath of marked the 65th anniversary of has been serving the Australian World War II, when the nation Australian citizenship this year community for more than 110 embarked on a remarkable in Albert Hall, Canberra, the years. The Service traces programme of nation-building. site of the first-ever Australian its roots back to Federation The expansion of our population citizenship ceremony in 1949. as the Department of Trade through managed migration and Customs, and indeed to was central to this programme, The Department also has a proud the customs administrations and the Department has history of supporting Australia’s of the Australian colonies played a crucial economic and economic prosperity through the in the 19th century. social role in the development Migration Programme, especially of our nation ever since. in relation to filling identified It has played a vital role in skill shortages in our labour protecting the safety, security Leading work for the nation markets as well as managing and commercial interests of in the areas of citizenship Australia’s Humanitarian Australia since its establishment and national identity, the Programme, which allows us to in 1901. Currently, it performs Department has contributed resettle those most in need. tasks and enforces regulations 8 Blueprint for Integration THE BORDER: A strategic national asset Our border is a national asset. It holds economic, social and strategic value for our nation. The border is not a line on a map. in humanitarian and refugee border control over who and programmes, and to grant what has the right to enter or Our focus is on the border citizenship. It also includes the exit and under what conditions. in the sense of a complex collection of border revenue This includes significant effort continuum stretching ahead and trade and travel statistics. offshore to authorise travel of and behind the border, movements to Australia through including the physical border. Treating the border as a the comprehensive visa regime It is a space that enables and continuum allows an integrated, and to prevent unauthorised controls the flow of people and layered approach to provide people movements to Australia. the movement of goods through border management in depth— complex supply chains. We working ahead of and behind the Effective border security allows call this the border continuum, border, as well as at the border, for the seamless legitimate illustrated on page 11. to manage threats and take movement of people and goods advantage of opportunities. across our borders, which The continuum includes our are all critical to enhancing immigration responsibilities to By applying an intelligence-led trade, travel and migration. manage and assist temporary model and working with partners and permanent migrants and across the border continuum, those people participating we are able to deliver effective 10 Blueprint for Integration THE CHALLENGE By harnessing these challenges we will contribute to Australia’s national security, economic strength and a cohesive society. Creating a new Department and establishing the Australian Border Force provides us with the opportunity to leverage our combined experience and capabilities to better tackle the challenges facing Australia’s border. These challenges are complex and multi-faceted. Protecting our borders Australia is a free, prosperous Continuing to secure our Border Command, ensuring and harmonious society. borders, while enabling seamless our assets and resources are However, it is also these legitimate movement of people deployed to greatest effect, aspects of our society that and goods, will be essential including offshore, domestically terrorists and violent extremists to ensuring Australia remains and in our maritime zone. seek to harm. The threat to a prosperous society. We We will also work to counter Australia and Australians from will establish the Australian threats ahead of the border, terrorists and violent extremists Border Force as the front-line
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