WALT v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2006] FCA 42

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

WALT v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2006] FCA 42 MIGRATION – protection visa – refusal - application for review – claim based on alleged religious conversion at age 11 considered when applicant aged 17 – Tribunal not in error in asking the wrong questions in relation to conversion and taking into account irrelevant considerations – Tribunal did not fail to ask to consider whether applicant had well-found fear of being persecuted by reason of being an apostate – Tribunal not in error in reaching conclusion on availability of state protection – no error in conclusions on relocation Appellant S395/2002 v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (2003) 216 CLR 473 Chan v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1989) 169 CLR 379 Dranichnikov v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (2003) 197 ALR 389 Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Guo (1997) 191 CLR 559 NAIZ v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2005] FCAFC 37 Randhawa v Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs (1994) 52 FCR 437 SCAT v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2003) 76 ALD 625 WAEW of 2002 v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2002] FCAFC 260 Wang v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (2000) 105 FCR 548 WALT v MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS and REFUGEE REVIEW TRIBUNAL WAD 145 of 2005 NICHOLSON J 6 FEBRUARY 2006 PERTH

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

WESTERN AUSTRALIA DISTRICT REGISTRY WAD 145 OF 2005

BETWEEN: WALT

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AND: MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS

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