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On 1 July 2015, the functions of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service were integrated into a new Department. The Australian Border Force was established as the new front-line operational agency within the Department reflecting a greater focus on the border as a strategic national asset. The integrated arrangements build on recent border protection reforms and the long history of the two organisations working closely together.

The Australian Border Force brought together all existing operational border, investigations, compliance, detention (facilities and centres) and enforcement functions. Policy, regulatory and corporate support for the Australian Border Force are delivered by the Department.

We have significant service and enforcement functions, including:

facilitating the lawful passage of people and goods
investigations, compliance and enforcement in relation to illicit goods and immigration malpractice; and
onshore detention, removals and support to regional processing arrangements

Treating the border as a continuum allows an integrated, layered approach to provide border management in depth— working ahead of and behind the border, as well as at the border, to manage threats and take advantage of opportunities.
By applying an intelligence-led model and working with our partner agencies across the border continuum, we deliver effective border control over who and what has the right to enter or exit, and under what conditions.

Officers in the Australian Border Force are operationally focused, uniformed and part of a disciplined enforcement body undertaking functions across our operating environment – patrolling our air and seaports, remote locations, mail and cargo centres and Australia's extended maritime jurisdiction.

We work closely with other government and international agencies to detect and deter unlawful movement of goods and people across the border.
The integration of our complementary customs, immigration and border protection functions and capabilities provides more diverse and interesting jobs and careers for our people. They will be supported by better training, modernised business processes and systems, an increased sense of professionalism and a strengthened culture of integrity.
The combination of enforcement resources from both immigration and customs will enable us to boost our capacity over time and maintain investment in key capital infrastructure that supports the protection of Australia’s border.

The full implementation of the Australian Border Force vision, model and workforce transformation will take time and arrangements will be progressively implemented.

The ABF structure comprises two Groups – the Operations Group and the Support Group.

The Operations Group has responsibility for all operational activity relating to the management of travellers, goods and cargo throughout the border continuum.

The Support Group has responsibility for providing planning, support and specialist services to ensure operational continuity across the border continuum and the operational management responsibility for detention services management including health, detention estate management, and regional processing and settlement.

The Australian Border Force Commissioner

The Australian Border Force is headed by a statutory officer - a Commissioner - reporting directly to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection on operational matters, responsible for managing these operations and commanding officers.

Roman Quaedvlieg APM

Mr Roman Quaedvlieg is the Australian Border Force Commissioner, a role he was appointed to when the Australian Border Force (ABF) started operations on 1 July 2015. Prior to becoming the ABF Commissioner, Mr Quaedvlieg was the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, a role he commenced in October 2014.

Mr Quaedvlieg first began with the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service in May 2013, after being appointed the Deputy Chief Executive Officer Border Enforcement.

Prior to his appointment with the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, Mr Quaedvlieg was the Chief Police Officer of ACT Policing, the community policing arm of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). Mr Quaedvlieg arrived at the AFP in 2005 and assumed the position of Manager Economic Operations, with responsibility for financial and economic investigations including money-laundering, large-scale fraud against the Commonwealth, proceeds of crime recovery, identity crime enforcement, and the management of the Oil-for-Food Task Force.

In 2007, Mr Quaedvlieg was promoted to Assistant Commissioner at the AFP and assumed responsibility for Border Operations, which encompassed investigations of major drug importation and trafficking, people-smuggling activity, sexual servitude, and child sex tourism offences. Mr Quaedvlieg has also performed the role of National Manager Aviation (at the Assistant Commissioner level) and was the AFP Chief of Staff for a period of time, a role which incorporated responsibility for the governance mechanisms of the AFP, including Ministerial Liaison, National Media and Marketing, Legal Services, Professional Standards, Recognition and Ceremonial, and Executive Services.

Prior to his appointment with the AFP, Mr Quaedvlieg undertook a three year appointment with the Australian Crime Commission in an executive role, with responsibilities for the transition of the former National Crime Authority to the Commission.
A career police officer, Mr Quaedvlieg served as a sworn member of the Queensland Police Service for 15 years, where he performed duties in a range of positions investigating and managing serious and organised criminal activity.

In 2000, he undertook a development tenure in the private sector by completing a two-year executive contract with a major airline group operating in the Asia-Pacific region.

Mr Quaedvlieg has a Bachelor of Justice from the Queensland University of Technology, and is undertaking a Master of Business Administration at the Melbourne Business School. He was awarded an Australian Police Medal in 2011 for serving the Australian community with distinction, particularly in the areas of police operations and administration.

Migrant with permanent residence

If you migrated to Australia, have permanent residence, satisfy the residential requirements and are of good character you might be eligible for citizenship.

All applicants, including children under 16 years of age must be permanent residents at the time of application and also at the time we make a decision on your application.

What is permanent residence?

Having permanent residence means you have a current visa that permits you to live in Australia indefinitely. There are many different type of visas that provide permanent residence for citizenship purposes. You can use the Visa Finder to find a visa of this type, or use VEVO to check the permanent residence status of your visa.

When does permanent residence start?

If you were granted a migrant visa offshore your permanent residence date is the date of your first arrival in Australia on this visa.

If you were granted a permanent residence visa onshore your permanent residence date is the date that visa was issued.

Are you a long term resident of Australia?

Being a long-term resident of Australia, or being eligible to vote or having served in the armed forces of Australia does not mean that you are an Australian citizen.

Long term residents will need to provide evidence of arrival in Australia. If you no longer have this evidence you can telephone the Citizenship Information Line for advice on how to prove your permanent residence status.

Are you a New Zealand citizen?

On arrival in Australia, most New Zealanders are automatically granted a Special Category Visa (SCV). This visa is a temporary visa which allows the holder to remain and work in Australia indefinitely but since 2001 does not provide permanent residence for citizenship purposes.
See: New Zealand citizens living in Australia

Your Australian citizenship options

Migrants with permanent residence who satisfy the eligibility requirements apply for Australian citizenship by conferral. Children 15 years of age and under are usually included in the application of their responsible parent.

There are two categories of eligibility:

Form 1300t Australian citizenship - General eligibility for applicants aged 18 years and over and under 60 years of age.
Form 1290 Australian citizenship – Other situations for applicants aged under 18 years, applicants aged 60 years or over, or applicants in special circumstances.

Find out how to apply for Australian citizenship and apply online.

You can also apply on a paper application form.

Do you think you might already be an Australian citizen?

If you think you are an Australian citizen but are not sure, see ‘Methods of acquiring Australian citizenship’ on our current citizens page.

If you want evidence of your Australian citizenship, you can make an application for evidence of Australian citizenship. You will need to provide a range of documents with your application that assist us to confirm your citizenship status.

The Australian Border Force was established on 1 July 2015 as the new frontline operational entity within the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. The establishment of the Border Force reflects a greater focus on the border as a strategic national asset.

Border Force officers manage the security and integrity of Australia's borders. We work closely with other government and international agencies to detect and deter the unlawful movement of goods and people across the border.

Border Force officers are operationally focused, uniformed and part of a disciplined enforcement body undertaking functions across our operating domain – patrolling our air and seaports, remote locations, mail and cargo centres and Australia's extended maritime domain.

We require highly dedicated, agile and multi-skilled officers that are well trained and equipped to perform a range of duties across our airports and seaports, land and maritime jurisdictions.

More information about applying for an entry-level role and working in the ABF, including roles, attributes and eligibility requirements for Border Force officers is available on the Working in the Australian Border Force webpages.

Protecting our borders

The Australian Border Force is responsible for the protection of Australia’s border in partnership with a range of intelligence, law enforcement and other agencies. Our mission is to protect our border and manage the movement of people and goods across it and, by doing so, we aim to make Australia safer and more prosperous.

Our operating environment

Australia adopts a whole-of-government approach to its national security. Australia is a free, prosperous and harmonious society. However, it is also these aspects of our society that terrorists and violent extremists seek to harm. The threat to Australia and Australians from terrorists and violent extremists is both real and growing.

Similarly, geopolitical events, ranging from instability and conflict, through to global health crises, can lead to failed states or major armed conflict. These events create both direct and indirect security challenges to Australia, including fostering terrorism, population displacement and the irregular movement of people.

Continuing to secure our borders, while enabling the seamless legitimate movement of people and goods, will be essential to ensuring Australia remains a prosperous society.

Travel and trade patterns are becoming more complex with significant growth in the range of goods, biosecurity hazards and economic risks. The geographic area in which we operate is also expanding, with an increasing number of remote ports coming on-line. At the same time entities trying to breach Australia’s borders are becoming increasingly responsive and resilient to law enforcement interventions and tactics.

Opportunities for organised crime today are unprecedented. Increased globalisation, escalating cross-border movements of people, goods and money, emerging international markets, and rapidly developing and converging technologies provide a fertile operating environment for organised crime.

Advancement in technology offer opportunities to improve how the Australian Border Force enables and facilitates its operations, using functionality such as biometrics for enhanced entry control, expansion of automated entry systems and an evolving cyber security environment. They also present challenges through the potential for exploitation by criminal networks to compromise the security of the border and the processes and systems used to protect it.

Internet trade is also increasing its reach over global markets, presenting challenges to the traditional format of trade relationships—both licit and illicit, with an exponential growth in the volume of online purchased goods crossing the border. The risks to the Australian community posed by the movement of illicit drugs continue to be high. The Australian Border Force continues to work collaboratively with domestic and international law enforcement agencies to disrupt organised crime groups involved in the import of illicit drugs.

The identification and analysis of illicit firearm trafficking networks is a high priority. The number of undeclared handguns detected at the border increased by almost 60 per cent in 2013-14 with several deliberate attempts at concealing handguns in international mail.

Traditionally, illicit tobacco has entered Australia through sea cargo, however we are increasingly detecting undeclared cigarettes in international mail and air cargo.

Our approach

The Australian Border Force is focused on our national security, the protection of our community, the enforcement of our laws, including the collection of revenue, and the security of our maritime jurisdiction, resources and environment.

We develop and coordinate our border management framework in conjunction with partner agencies to deliver Australia’s customs, trade and industry policy.

We are an intelligence-led, mobile and technologically enabled force deploying resources to provide the greatest effect, including offshore, domestically and in our maritime zone.

We also work to counter threats ahead of the border, employing sophisticated risk assessments through our visa programmes and working with international partners to deliver enforcement outcomes.

Australian Border Force officers are uniformed and part of a disciplined enforcement body patrolling our air and seaports , remote locations, mail and cargo centres and Australia's extended maritime jurisdiction.

We have significant service and enforcement functions, including:

facilitating the lawful passage of people and goods;
investigations, compliance and enforcement in relation to illicit goods and immigration malpractice; and
onshore detention, removals and offshore processing arrangements.

We consider the border not to be a purely physical barrier separating nation states, but a complex continuum stretching offshore and onshore, including the overseas, maritime, physical border and domestic dimensions of the border - border continuum diagram. To protect the safety, security and commercial interests of Australia, we are working with our partner agencies to develop intelligence-based profiles of risk across each dimension of the border continuum.

The further development of sophisticated intelligence and targeting capabilities will increasingly allow us to minimise interventions in low-risk border movements and concentrate our resources against those who attempt to breach our borders or circumvent our controls.

Our Strategic Border Command, through a command centre with oversight of regional commands, ensures the effective coordination of border enforcement and operational activity. It maintains visibility of what is happening at the border and is able to quickly and effectively redirect effort to better manage the border.

Our Maritime Border Command, comprising both Departmental staff and Australian Defence Force members, coordinates collaborative cross-agency civil maritime security activities, including intelligence analysis, coordinated surveillance and on-water responses. This strategy encompasses working ahead of the border with international partners to provide controls for maritime security threats.

Our specialist investigation and enforcement capability is deployed against individuals, organisations or networks that seek to harm the Australian community or economy through threats, crime and abuse of border law and systems. We are focused on:

national security threats
serious or complex border crime across the border continuum, from one-off attempts to complex organised and serious crime
systemic vulnerabilities in the trade and migration systems

We work with partner agencies as part of Australia’s whole-of-government strategies and international commitments particularly in the areas of national security and organised crime.

We are actively engaged in a number of international data-accessing initiatives aimed at preventing the movement of terrorists or terrorist groups.

The Australian Border Force also plays an important role in the community by enforcing and maintaining the integrity of Australia's visa programme using a range of preventative and compliance measures.

We provide services to support people in community detention arrangements, onshore immigration detention facilities and regional processing centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.

In protecting the border, the Australian Border Force engages regularly with a number of partner agencies including:

Attorney-General’s Department
Australian Antarctic Division
Australian Communications and Media Authority
Australian Crime Commission
Australian Federal Police
Australian Fisheries Management Authority
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
Department of Agriculture
Department of Defence
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Department of Industry and Science
Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development
Department of Infrastructure and Transport, Office of Transport Security
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Department of Environment, and
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

Task 2

CONTRACT NO. 30

FOR SALE OF GOODS

This Contract for Sale of Goods is made this __ day of _______, 20__ by and between _________, a [state of organization or residence] [corpor ation/ partnership/ sole proprietorship/ resident], with its principal place of business at [complete address], (“Seller”) and ___________, a [state of organization or residence] [corporation/ partnership/sole proprieto rship/resident], with its principal place of business at [complete address] (“Buyer”) for the purchase of the goods described below: ______

1. Term

This Contract shall begin on __________, 20__, and end upon the last delivery, which shall be shipped, with or without requisition for the balance of goods then unshipped, by___________, 20__, unless the parties agree otherwise. However, if as of such date, Buyer is in arrears on the account, Seller may then cancel this Contract and sue for its damages, including lost profits, offsetting the deposit there against, and further recover its cost of suit including attorney fees.

2. Delivery

Buyer will give Seller _____ days’ advance notice regarding the quantity requested for delivery. Upon receipt of the request for delivery, Seller will arrange for delivery through a carrier chosen by Seller, the costs of which shall be F.O.B.___________.

3. Risk Of Loss

The risk of loss from any casualty to the Goods, regardless of the cause, will be the responsibility of the Seller until the Goods have been received by the Buyer.

4. Acceptance

Buyer will have the right to inspect the goods upon receipt, and within __ business days after delivery, Buyer must give notice to Seller of any claim for damages on account of condition, quality, or grade of the goods, and Buyer must specify the basis of the claim in detail. Failure of Buyer to comply with these conditions will constitute irrevocable acceptance of the goods by Buyer. All notices between the parties must be in writing and delivered by

courier or by certified mail, return receipt requested.

5. Charges

Seller shall invoice Buyer upon and for each shipment. Buyer shall pay all charges on terms of ___________________. Any late payment shall bear a late charge of ___%. Overdue invoices shall also bear interest at the rate of ___% per ______. If Seller undertakes collection or enforcement efforts, Buyer shall be liable for all costs thereof, including attorney fees. If Buyer is in arrears on any invoice, Seller may, on notice to Buyer, apply the deposit thereto and withhold further delivery until the deposit and all arrearages are brought current.

6. Deposit

Upon signing this Contract, Buyer shall pay Seller a deposit of $_________ toward the total price as a precondition for Seller's performance, which deposit is to be credited to the last shipment.

7. Warranty

Seller warrants that the goods sold hereunder are new and free from substantive defects in workmanship and materials. Seller's liability under the foregoing warranty is limited to replacement of goods or repair of defects or refund of the purchase price at Seller's sole option. No other warranty, express or implied, is made by Seller, and none shall be imputed or presumed.

8. Taxes

All sales taxes, tariffs, and other governmental charges shall be paid by Buyer and are Buyer's Responsibility Except As Limited By Law.

9. Governing Law

This Contract shall be governed by the laws of the State of _______. Any disputes hereunder will be heard in the appropriate federal and state courts located in [name of county], [state].

10. Force Majeure

Seller may, without liability, delay performance or cancel this Contract on account of force majeure events or other circumstances beyond its control, including, but not limited to, strikes, acts of God, political unrest, embargo, failure of source of supply, or casualty.

11. Miscellaneous

This Contract contains the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes and replaces all such prior agreements with respect to matters expressly set forth herein. No modification shall be made to this Contract except in writing and signed by both parties. This Contract shall be binding upon the parties and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors, assigns and personal representatives.

Task 3

“The Cabala”

During the first week Blair helped me find and fit out an apartment. It consisted of five rooms in an old palace across the river and within stone’s-throw of the basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere. The rooms were high and damp and bad eighteenth century. The ceiling of the salon was modestly coffered, and there were bits of crumbling stucco in the hall, still tinted with faint blues and pinks and guilt; every morning’s sweeping carried off a bit more of some cupid’s curls or chips of scroll and garland. In the kitchen there was a fresco of Jacob wrestling with the angel, but the stove concealed it. We passed two days in choosing chairs and tables, in loading them upon carts and personally conducting them to our mean street, in haggling over great lengths of grey- blue brocade before a dozen shops, always with a view toward variety in stains and unravellings and creases; in selecting from among the brisk imitations of ancient candelabra those which most successfully simulated age and pure line.

The acquisition of Ottima was Blair’s triumph. There was a trattoria at the corner, a lazy casual talkative wine-shop, run by three sisters. Blair studied them for a time, and finally proposed to the intelligent, middle-aged, humorous one that she come and be my cook “for a few weeks.” Italians have a horror of making long-term contracts, and it was this last clause that won Ottima. We offered to take on any man she recommended to help her with the heavier work, but she clouded at that and replied that she could very well do the heavier work too. The removal to my rooms must have arrived as a providential solution to some problem in Ottima’s life, for she attached herself passionately to her work, to me, and to her companions in the kitchen, Kurt the police dog and Messalina the cat. We each winked at the other’s failings and we created a home.

The day following our arrival, then, we called upon the latest dictator of Rome and found a rather boyish spinster with an interesting and ailing face, fretful bird-like motions, and exhibiting a perpetual alternation of kindness and irritability. It was nearly six when he walked into the drawing-room in the Palazzo Barberini and found four ladies and a gentleman seated a little stiffly about a table conversing in French. Madame Agoropoulos gave a cry of joy at seeing Blair, the absent-minded scholar to whom she was so attached; Miss Grier echoed it. A thin Mrs. Roy waited until something had been dropped into the conversation about our family connections before she could relax and smile. The Spanish Ambassador and his wife wondered how on earth American could get on without a system of titles whereby one could unerringly recognize one’s own people, and the Marquesa shuddered slightly at the intrusion of two coarse young redskins and began composing mentally the faulty French sentence with which she would presently excuse herself. For a time the conversation blew fitfully about, touched with the formal charm of all conversation conducted in a language that is native to no one in the group.