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Citizenship test & affirmation of values

Prime Minister Howard’s citizenship test requiring those seeking citizenship to demonstrate an understanding of English and to pass a test on Australian history, culture and values is a sensible way of promoting integration and of signaling to those electing to become Australians that our society is not an empty slate – a cultural void without [...]

Migration policy & the mufti

It is inevitable than the remarks of the ‘cat meat’ Mufti will reignite Australian migration debates – Michael Baume has made a start in today’s AFR (subscription only). The issue of changes in Australian migration laws are already being recognised in the Middle East and are implicit in the remarks of Pru Goward that the [...]