NARO of 2002 v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2002] FCA 1465

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

NARO of 2002 v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs [2002] FCA 1465 NARO OF 2002 v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS N 834 of 2002

MADGWICK J 26 NOVEMBER 2002 SYDNEY

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY N834 of 2002

BETWEEN: APPLICANT NARO OF 2002

APPLICANT

AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS

RESPONDENT

JUDGE: MADGWICK J DATE OF ORDER: 26 NOVEMBER 2002

WHERE MADE: SYDNEY

THE COURT ORDERS THAT: 1. The application be dismissed with 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 N834 of 2002

BETWEEN: APPLICANT NARO OF 2002

APPLICANT

AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION & MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS

RESPONDENT

JUDGE: MADGWICK J

DATE: 26 NOVEMBER 2002

PLACE: SYDNEY

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT (revised from transcript) HIS HONOUR: 1 This is another hopeless case. The applicant is a disappointed applicant for refugee status dissatisfied with a decision of the Refugee Review Tribunal ("the Tribunal") which affirmed a decision of a delegate of the respondent Minister. 2 The factual background helpfully summarised by counsel for the respondent Minister is as follows. The applicant was born in Bangladesh in 1970, and is now thirty-two years of age. She was educated in Bangladesh. She arrived in Australia on 27 November 1999 and on 10 January 2000 lodged an application for a protection visa claiming refugee status. 3 The burden of her claim was that from a very early age, indeed from the age of nine, she was involved in politics, having followed her father into the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ("the BNP"). She claimed that by the age of fourteen, she was elected General Secretary of her school's branch of that party and that she became immersed in politics while attending college from age fourteen to nineteen. So immersed was she that she failed to take an important school examination in 1986 because of the level of her political activities.