Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Each case is examined and considered in terms of the individual's experience in the role they held with Australian forces and Australian staff. Each locally engaged employee has a number of factors taken into account. There are a number of things that need to be considered in what are difficult circumstances: identity, the accuracy of their claim of employment, the risk to the individual and, for my part as the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the advice that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade provides to me on the validity of the application. Then, if they are agreed, I am in a position to certify that the application should be considered by Home Affairs, which is something I have done both in this role and in my previous role as the Minister for Defence.