Pollyana

DIAC is now known as Dept of Immigration and Border Protection (presumably DIBP rather than DIABP.......)

Poor souls, all that paperwork to update

moneypenny20

Ffs, that's what, the fourth name change in less than 10 years? That's barking.

mrsgreenstar76

That really smacks of "How can we hide the mess we've made over the last five years? I know! We'll change our name!"

*Sweeps problems under rug*

Bermudashorts

Don't like it as I cannot say it as a word.

SillyOldBag

You could go all Australian and shorten it and then lengthen it again by adding an "o" on the end and call it DIBO .... just a suggestion

Bikergirl

Fourth in 10 years. Im onto fourth in 12months with the department I deal with...

Pollyana

like that!

Similar with me, I really feel for the staff, We are just changing ours again, both division AND department, and the hassle of updating everything is just mindboggling

Bikergirl

We have to make sure all our contracts and marketing collateral is correctly reflecting the current department. We have given up and now, luckily we can get away with, just using "Commonwealth Government" in our materials.

commonwealth

So which department now administers the citizenship act?

roaringmouse

Of course, they must have the emotive "border protection" in there to back up their "stop the boats" mantra.

commonwealth

They should rename it Department of Border Detention and Deportation.

Pollyana

The same one, only as roaringmouse says it seems they suddenly want to show they have bigger priorities!

roaringmouse

That would be too complicated for some of the Liberals to handle - perhaps just "Department of Stop the Boats" would do?

Shame that Jaymes Diaz didn't get elected, as that was the only thing he knew of their apparent 6-point plan - he could have been the minister.

commonwealth

the bottom part of the citizenship certificate will now appear like this:

Swerv-o

Think of all that unproductive job creation going on renewing old paperwork, shredding the old stuff etc etc...


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