The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is responsible for issuing Australian passports. For information, phone 131 232 or visit www.passports.gov.au

        Any Australian citizen can apply for a certificate of evidence of Australian citizenship if they want documentary evidence of their citizenship.
A Certificate of evidence of Australian citizenship is official evidence that the person named acquired Australian citizenship on the date shown and was an Australian citizen on the date the certificate was issued.
Complete Application Form 119 Application for a Certificate of evidence of Australian Citizenship . Lodge your application, documentation and application fee at your nearest regional office of the Department or Australian diplomatic office overseas.
See:
Application Form 119 Application for a Certificate of evidence of Australian Citizenship (PDF File)
Australian Migration Offices

        Losing your passport does not affect the visa granted to you. Your passport contains evidence of the grant of the visa rather than the visa itself. The visa is the permission that is given to you to travel to, enter and/or remain in Australia.
Contact your home country's embassy or consulate to arrange the issue of a new passport. Once you have received your new passport you will need to visit a regional office of the Department to arrange for re-evidencing of the visa.There is a fee for re-evidencing some visas.
The Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) is an electronic visa that does not require a label and cannot be put in your passport.
See also:
DFAT Index: Embassies in Australia

        Visit the nearest regional office of the Department and present your new passport for re-evidencing of the visa label.
The Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) is an electronic visa that does not require a label and cannot be put in your passport.
See:
Australian Migration Offices

        As an Australian citizen you have the unrestricted right to stay in Australia and travel freely in and out of the country. However, many dual citizens hold passports of more than one country.
You must use your Australian passport to pass through Immigration/Customs clearance on leaving and returning to Australia. An Australian passport is the only definitive evidence that proves you are an Australian citizen. Without an Australian passport, delays may be experienced while your citizenship is verified.
All visas placed in the passport of your former country expire on the grant of Australian citizenship

        All Business Skills applicants are required to meet certain obligations.

• Business Owners and Senior Executives are required to sign a declaration that they will, after arrival in Australia or after visa grant if already in Australia:
  • obtain a substantial interest in an eligible business in Australia;
  • notify DIMIA of their address on arrival and/or keep DIMIA informed of their address for the following three years; and
  • will participate in monitoring surveys conducted by DIMIA.
  In the declaration, applicants also acknowledge that if they do not make genuine efforts to participate in business within 3 years (of arrival if the visa is granted outside Australia OR from date of grant if the visa is granted in Australia), then DIMIA may decide to cancel their visa and the visas of their family members.
  
• Investors are required to sign a declaration that, after arrival in Australia or after visa grant if already in Australia, they:
  • intend to maintain investment or business activities in Australia after the 3-year term of their designated investment expires;
  • will notify DIMIA of their address on arrival and/or keep DIMIA informed of their address for the following three years; and
  • will participate in monitoring surveys conducted by DIMIA
  In the declaration, applicants also acknowledge that if they withdraw their designated investment before its maturity (in three years), then DIMIA can decide to cancel their visa and the visas of their family members.
  
• Applicants in the Established Business in Australia and Regional Established Business in Australia categories are required to sign a declaration that, after visa grant in Australia, they:
  • intend to maintain their ownership interest in an eligible business in Australia;
  • will keep DIMIA informed of their address for the following three years; and
  • will participate in monitoring surveys conducted by DIMIA.
  In these two subclasses, there is no provision for DIMIA to cancel the visas of the applicant or their family members.
  In addition to verifying compliance with the Business Skills visa requirements, monitoring of Business Skills migrants enables DIMIA to:
  
• evaluate whether or not the Business Skills Program is meeting its objectives; and
• report to government on the overall performance of the Business Skills Program.

The Business Skills Monitoring Unit of DIMIA contacts Business Skills migrants at 24 months and 36 months after their arrival (or visa grant if granted in Australia) to ascertain the level of business activity that they have undertaken.
Failure to provide the requested information within the required time may result in a fine. If the Monitoring Unit is unable to determine that post-arrival obligations have been met, then action to cancel the visas of the Business Skills migrant and their family members will be instituted.