Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Talukder v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2001] FCA 205
BABUL MIAH TALUKDER v
MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS NG 859 of 2000 HILL J 5 MARCH 2001 SYDNEY
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY NG 859 OF 2000
BETWEEN: BABUL MIAH TALUKDER
APPLICANT
AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND
MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
RESPONDENT
JUDGE: HILL J
DATE OF ORDER: 5 MARCH 2001
PLACE: SYDNEY
THE COURT ORDERS THAT: 1. the application be dismissed; 2. the applicant pay the Minister's costs. Note: Settlement and entry of orders is dealt with in Order 36 of the Federal Court Rules.
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY NG 859 OF 2000
BETWEEN: BABUL MIAH TALUKDER
APPLICANT
AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND
MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
RESPONDENT
JUDGE: HILL J
DATE: 5 MARCH 2001
PLACE: SYDNEY
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT 1 The applicant, Mr Talukder, is a citizen of Bangladesh. He first arrived in Australia in 1996 and applied in that year for a protection visa but subsequently withdrew that application. In 1999, he lodged another application for a protection visa which was refused. It is the second application that in due course came before the Refugee Review Tribunal (the "Tribunal"). For Mr Talukder to succeed, the Tribunal had to be satisfied that he was a refugee within the meaning of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees as amended or supplemented by the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (together referred to as the "Convention"). That is to say, in accordance with Article 1A(2) of the Convention, a person who: "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country ..."
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