citizenship - hofreps - 1970

Contexts in which the word citizenship was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

It is the policy of the Government not to grant citizenship to Communists or to extremists of the Right. [More…]
An applicant’s political views otherwise are not taken into account in considering citizenship applications. [More…]
Applications for citizenship are confidential between the applicants and the Department and it is not considered appropriate that names should be disclosed. [More…]
It is estimated that at the 30 June 1969, 208,230 aliens over the age of 16 years were residentiary qualified to apply for Australian citizenship but had not done so. [More…]
The following table shows the number of persons of the principal nationalities who have not applied for citizenship: - [More…]
Not all accounts for the 1970 Citizenship Convention have yet been received, but the total cost is expected to be within the estimated amount of $47,000. [More…]
What was the total cost of the Citizenship Convention for each of the past five Conventions. [More…]
Separate figures have not been maintained to show the number of persons granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in (a) Papua and (b) New Guinea. [More…]
The following table shows the number of persons granted citizenship by naturalisation in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in each of the last twenty years. [More…]
How many residents of (a) Papua and (b) the TrustTerritoryof New Guinea have been granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in each ofthe last 20 years. [More…]
The total number of persons granted Australian citizenship in the period 1st January 1966 to 31st March 1970 was 148.121. [More…]
The passport issued to Mr Stan O’Donnell on 23 June 1967 was issued by the Australian Embassy, Pretoria after his claim to Australian citizenship was established. [More…]
The following table shows the Local Government areas in each State in which 100 or more certificates of Australian citizenship were conferred during the twelve months ended 30th June 1970. [More…]
Pursuant to section 42 of the Citizenship Act 1948-1969, I present the annual return of persons granted certificates of citizenship for the year ended 30 June 1970. [More…]
The number of persons granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in each of the past five financial years was [More…]
How many persons of each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in 1970? [More…]
Under what circumstances may a European with professional qualifications obtain citizenship within 5 years of taking up permanent residence. [More…]
In the case ofFrance and Germany, pensions are not payable in Australia to former citizens who have surrendered their citizenship. [More…]
The following table shows the Local Government areas in each State in which 100. or more certificates of Australian citizenship were conferred during the twelve months ended 30th June 1971. [More…]
Pursuant to section 42 of the Citizenship Act 1948- 1969, I present the annual return of persons granted certificates of Australian citizenship for the year ended 30th June 1971. [More…]
b he able to say whether several territories In most continents including the States of Minnesota and the Canadian capital have symbolically declared themselves world territory, some flying the United Nations Sag alongside the national flag, some donating a specified percentage of revenues to United Nations agencies, some issuing world citizenship identity cards to citizens who request them proclaiming their right and intention to vote for the legislative arm of a world disarmament and development authority, and some adopting a twin region on a similar lattitude or longitude for cultural exchanges when both are similarly mondialised. [More…]
The following table shows the estimated percentages of eligible persons who have been granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in the period 1st January 1945 to 30th June 1970 in the alien national categories listed in the 1969-70 Citizenship Return: [More…]
What are the percentages of settlers in the forty-nine national categories, listed in the Return for the year 1969-70 under the Citizenship Act, who have applied for and been granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation and registration during the years of the post-war migration programme. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has pa-id taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Austraiian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in bis native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of bis life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives is denied pension transferability. [More…]
It is estimated that at 30th June 1971, 228,700 aliens over the age of sixteen years were residentially qualified to apply for Australian citizenship, but had not done ‘so. [More…]
The following table shows the estimated number of persons of the principal nationalities who have not applied for citizenship: [More…]
(a) and (b) The following tables show the number of persons in each nationality granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in Australia and Papua New Guinea in 1970-71: [More…]
How many persons in each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in: [More…]
How many persons over 16 years of age in each nationality were residentially qualified to apply for Australian citizenship in: [More…]
As the greater number of persons of nonEuropean and mixed descent permanently resident in Australia are either naturalised or registered as Australian citizens, or are citizens of Commonwealth countries with the status ofBritish subjects under Australian citizenship law, they are not required to register with the Department. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
What qualifications are required to apply for and be granted Australian citizenship by migrants from (a) British, (b) Asian, and (c) other countries? [More…]
Pursuant to section 42 of the Citizenship Act 1948-1969, I present the annual return of persons granted certificates of Australian citizenship for the year ended 30th June 1972. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration: In the new citizenship oath or affirmation is it proposed to include the words renouncing all other allegiance’? [More…]
Since 1949, Australian citizenship has not been granted automatically to settlers from the United Kingdom or from any one of the other 30 countries which make. [More…]
So, at no time for the past 24 years has Australian citizenship been granted automatically to these people. [More…]
Conversely, Australian citizens migrating to the United Kingdom have not been granted automatically citizenship of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at any time in the period since the enactment of those laws in 1949. [More…]
My hope is that all who come will be embraced in the Australian family of the nation in citizenship. [More…]
Will the Minister take steps either to correct this wrong impression or to confirm that citizens of the United Kingdom receive Australian citizenship automatically upon migration to Australia? [More…]
The number of citizenship ceremonies in each State from 4th December 1972 to 7th March 1973 was as follows: [More…]
How many citizenship ceremonies have been conducted in each State since 4th December 1972. [More…]
What action has the Prime Minister taken to try to establish the truth of the matter, the circumstances of this man’s trial, and the meaningfulness of Australian citizenship to the Communist Government of Yugoslavia, or is the Prime Minister prepared simply to accept the insults to Australia of a foreign government which has already been shown to have deliberately and flagrantly withheld the truth from his Government? [More…]
April concerning the execution of 3 men holding Australian citizenship? [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: When did he first learn and how did he learn that Senator Murphy had been informed on 9th April of the intended Yugoslav Government’s statement of 12th April concerning the execution of 3 men holding Australian citizenship? [More…]
The concept of citizenship is currently taught in schools in all States and Territories of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Did he state that the concept of citizenship should be taught in schools. [More…]
In which (a) States and (b) Territories of the Commonwealth is the concept of citizenship not taught. [More…]
I would expect that for migrant children, citizenship instruction in the form which I envisage will continue to be provided in normal school syllabuses. [More…]
The responsibility for developing citizenship courses for adult migrants is the subject of discussion with the Department of Education. [More…]
What action has he taken to establish citizenship courses for all migrants. [More…]
Membership in itself of the Communist Party or any lawful political party is not considered a reason for refusing citizenship. [More…]
It remains the law that applicants for citizenship must be of good character, have an adequate knowledge of English and of the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship and fulfil requirements as to residence in Australia. [More…]
Is membership of the Communist Party of Australia a barrier to the conferment of Australian citizenship? [More…]
How many persons of each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation between 1 January 1945 and 31 December 1972 (Hansard, 9 December 1971, page 4606). [More…]
What is the estimated percentage of eligible persons of each nationality who were granted Australian citizenship during the same period. [More…]
What is the estimated number of persons over 16 years of age of each nationality who were residentially qualified to apply for Australian citizenship on 31 December 1972 who had not done so (Hansard, 25 November 1971, page 3757). [More…]
How many persons of each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in Australia and Papua New Guinea in 1971-72 (Hansard, 25 November 1971, page 3757). [More…]
How many persons of each nationality acquired Australian citizenship by notification in 1971-72 (Hansard, 9 December 1971, page 4606). [More…]
The following table shows the number of aliens of each nationality who were granted Australian citizenship between 1 January 1945 and 31 December 1972 (includes children under the age of 16 years included on the Certificates of their parents) [More…]
The one point I want to make, and I want to make it in concert with the Opposition, is that I think all of us in this Parliament are dedicated to ensuring that citizenship ceremonies in our nation will be carried out with the maximum of decorum and dedication. [More…]
Did the Yugoslav Ambassador call on him on 16 August 1973 and advise him that the Yugoslav Government will make available details of the trials in Yugoslavia’ of eight men who held Australian citizenship. [More…]
How does the concept of citizenship currently taught in the Australian States and Territories differ from the course envisaged by him in his answer to my question No. [More…]
I direct to the Minister for Immigration a question relating to citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
Following the passing of the Australian Citizenship Act will the Minister consider issuing a new procedure for citizenship ceremonies to ensure that these most important occasions are given added dignity and decorum? [More…]
Since 2 December 1972 no applications for Australian citizenship have been refused as a result of Australian security reports. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I table a statement on the Government’s citizenship and settlement policy. [More…]
Pursuant to section 42 of the Citizenship Act 1948-1969, I present the annual return of persons granted certificates of Australian citizenship for the year ended 30 June 1973. [More…]
Pursuant to section 42 of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948-1973 I present the annual return of persons granted certificates of Australian citizenship for the year ended 30 June 1974. [More…]
Officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs: Australian Citizenship (Question No. [More…]
The new Department of Employment and Industrial Relations is continuing to act in matters of citizenship interviews wherever this was the arrangement previously. [More…]
Will the new Department of Employment and Industrial Relations continue to act in matters of citizenship interviews and passport applications. [More…]
The following table shows the local government areas in each State and Territory in which more than 100 Certificates of Australian Citizenship were conferred during 1975: [More…]
In reply to the honourable member’s question, the following table shows the estimated number of aliens 16 years of age and over who are residentially qualified, by virtue of three years residence in Australia, to apply for the grant of Australian citizenship but who had not done so as at 3 1 May, 1 976: [More…]
In respect of persons granted citizenship, advice is obtained from time to time from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Furthermore, subject to expenditure constraints, Australian Electoral Office staff attend at some citizenship ceremonies on request for the purpose of assisting with the franchise aspects. [More…]
Pursuant to section 42 of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 I present the annual return of persons granted Australian citizenship during the year ended 30 June 1976. [More…]
According to what criteria were those persons not of Australian origin granted Australian citizenship. [More…]
5 ) In respect of the answer to part ( 1 ), what percentage of the persons in each group is estimated or known tohave taken Australian citizenship. [More…]
The decision to remove the photograph of The Queen from Certificates of Australian Citizenship was taken in 1 973 by the then Minister for Immigration, when amendments to the Citizenship Act, including the design of the certificates, were under consideration. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that, at all citizenship ceremonies, applicants for citizenship of Australia are required to take an oath of loyalty to The Queen. [More…]
When was the decision taken to remove the photograph of The Queen from the Certificate of Registration as an Australian Citizen which is presented to each person on his or her achieving citizenship. [More…]
What percentage of the persons in each group referred to in part ( 1 ) is estimated or known to have taken Australian citizenship. [More…]
What is the present average delay in each State in the processing of applications for Australian citizenship. [More…]
-(Warringah-Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs)- Pursuant to section 42 of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 I present the annual return to Parliament of persons granted Australian citizenship during the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]
Is the Government considering the reintroduction of a formal written test to determine citizenship applications? [More…]
The Government is not considering the introduction of any written English test for citizenship applications. [More…]
Pursuant to section 42 of the Australian Citizenship Act 1942 I present the annual return of persons granted Australian citizenship for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
Do the Army and some categories of the Air Force accept that being a British subject is sufficient to meet citizenship requirements for officer entry. [More…]
Why is there a variation in the citizenship requirements between different services and between different categories within the same service. [More…]
The table hereunder sets out as at 30 June 1 978 the numbers of persons claiming citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies who arrived in the periods shown and are still recorded as overstayed. [More…]
Deportation statistics are disaggregated by citizenship but not by country of domicile. [More…]
He was granted citizenship on 6 August 1976 following completion of normal inquiries. [More…]
744 on 25 May 1977 (Hansard, page 1903), was granted Australian citizenship and an Australian passport on 6 August 1 976. [More…]
Are any of Mr di Piramo ‘s subsequent overseas movements known, and does he still hold Australian citizenship and an Australian passport. [More…]
The question raises an important matter of Australian citizenship and entry. [More…]
Pursuant to section 42 (d) of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 I present the annual return of persons granted Australian citizenship for the year ended June 1979. [More…]
(b) Applications for Australian citizenship refused on security grounds: [More…]
Between 1945 and 1969 nearly 46,000 Yugoslavs have taken Australian citizenship. [More…]
This represents approximately 74% of the Yugoslavs then eligible to apply for citizenship. [More…]
I now wonder whether I am a citizen of a country that gives me the kind of citizenship rights that any proud free man is entitled to expect from the country of his birth. [More…]
We therefore recommend a modification of the Selective Service Act making it possible, although not easy, for so-called selective conscientious objectors to refuse- without fear of imprisonment or loss of citizenship - to serve in wars which they consider unjust or in branches of service (e.g. [More…]
Amongst these are the Melbourne Diocesan Synod and the Department of Christian Citizenship of the Methodist Church of Victoria and Tasmania. [More…]
We have a responsibility of citizenship. [More…]
Let us remember that the privilege of citizenship has been won for us by the sacrifice and service of many people. [More…]
So when we talk of the rights and privileges of people such as Burchett we must also emphasise the responsibility of citizenship and service which they owe to the community. [More…]
So far as the final part of the honourable member’s question is concerned - it related to the value of an Australian passport - I want to say quite clearly to the House that the value of an Australian passport is that it identifies the bearer and his citizenship to representatives of other governments, to our own representatives overseas, to carriers, to immigration officials at ports and airports on entry to Australia, and to this extent it is valuable because it greatly facilitates the travel of the bearer. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration: Is it a fact that immigrants are encouraged to believe that naturalisation will entitle them to all the privileges of Australian citizenship? [More…]
So far as my recollection serves me, the provision of social services is not a matter which relates to citizenship per se but it is something that I will take up with my colleague, the Minister for Social Services. [More…]
Having in mind the recent debate over Mr Wilfred Burchett, the Attorney-General (Mr Hughes) should take particular note of the South African Citizenship Act 1949, which empowers the Minister of the Interior to deprive a South African citizen of his nationality if convicted of high treason, sedition or public violence. [More…]
Can persons of Maltese citizenship now resident in Australia expect some speedy solution -to this matter. [More…]
Was strong dissatisfaction expressed by delegates at the recent Citizenship Convention on the disparities existing between Australia and overseas social service standards. [More…]
There was some discussion at the recent Citizenship Convention on Australian social services and how they compare with those of other countries but it would not be correct to say that strong dissatisfaction was expressed on the disparities existing between Australian and overseas social service standards. [More…]
Repeatedly this man has sought Australian citizenship and his applications have been rejected without any reason or explanation having been given. [More…]
It is quite clear that his applications for naturalisation and Australian citizenship have been rejected because he is a member of the Australian Communist Party. [More…]
It transpired during the course of the interview that the third party with the two Immigration officials was allegedly an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation agent and that this ASIO agent informed Mr Vorstman that if he was prepared to become an informer for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation - that is an informer on the Communist Party, on political activity and on general radical movements in the community - this would favourably influence the outcome of his application for Australian citizenship. [More…]
But it would be even more undesirable that an ASIO agent in company with officials of the Department of Immigration should be in a position to say to Mr Vorstman or to any other person seeking Australian citizenship that although he was having difficulty and had been having difficulty for some time in obtaining Australian citizenship a more favourable attitude might very well develop on the part of officialdom if that person became an informer for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. [More…]
It is quite wrong and repugnant to anyone who holds democratic concepts that a man’s political beliefs should be used as the issue which allows him to be held to ransom for something which he greatly wants to achieve; that is, Australian citizenship. [More…]
They ought to be given Australian citizenship. [More…]
It is a long standing rule to disclose the reason for the refusal or deferment of an application for citizenship only where the applicant is unable to show that he has an adequate knowledge of the English language or is unable to meet the residential requirements of the Citizenship Act. [More…]
It would be a simple matter for the Department to say as a matter of procedure: ‘We do not provide Australian citizenship to people who belong to this political party’. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch), the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) or any other Minister in the Government - not even that great democrat who looks after the Department of External Territories - has not a right to deprive a person of citizenship in this country if he meets normal requirements and standards which are not regarded as illegal if they are held by other Australian citizens. [More…]
1 am gravely disturbed at the very many cases which occur in Australia where people seeking citizenship find their applications rejected largely on the basis of some sort of secret report which often comes from countries outside; from such great democracies’ - I ask Hansard to put inverted commas around ‘democracies’ - as Spain and Portugal. [More…]
The case, of course, concerns the refusal of citizenship to Mr Vorstman and the allegation that Mr Vorstman was offered inducements to provide information. [More…]
The background of this case is simply this: Mr Vorstman’s application for citizenship was carefully considered by my predecessor in February 1969 when he decided that the application was not one for approval. [More…]
application and 1 confirmed to some honourable gentlemen who made representations at the time that I was unable to approve of the grant of Australian citizenship to him. [More…]
As the honourable member for Oxley has indicated, the policy of the Government, which has been made clear to honourable members who have raised this question, is that it is a long standing rule to disclose the reason for the deferment or refusal of ari application for citizenship only where the applicant is unable to show that he has an adequate knowledge of the English language or is unable to comply with the language provisions of the Citizenship Act. [More…]
With regard to the honourable gentleman’s reference to matters which Mr Vortsman claimed were raised with him during an interview associated with his citizenship application, the information I have received concerning the interview indicates that Mr Vortsman’s allegations are in fact without foundation. [More…]
The honourable member for Oxley also raised during his comments on the adjournment the generality of government policy concerning refusal of citizenship on grounds of national security. [More…]
I restate tonight for the information of honourable members that it is the policy of this Government - a policy which has been reaffirmed on a number of occasions - not to grant citizenship to Communists or to members crf the extreme right. [More…]
Their aims are not, in our view, consonant with the concept of good citizenship. [More…]
We have always regarded citizenship as a privilege and its conferral should never be regarded in any way as an automatic process. [More…]
However, an applicant’s political views otherwise are not taken into account in considering citizenship applications. [More…]
To place this matter in its correct perspective let me say that in the period from 1st January 1949 to 30th June 1969 some 580,000 persons were granted Australian citizenship, and during that time only 405 persons were refused citizenship in accordance with the policy I explained earlier. [More…]
Each application for Australian citizenship is the subject of exhaustive inquiries into all aspects of the application and of the applicant’s background. [More…]
If these reveal that an applicant’s activities are such that he is considered to be unsuitable to accept the privileges and to discharge the obligations of Australian citizenship, then citizenship has been, and will continue to be, refused. [More…]
I simply want to say that the grant of citizenship has been regarded for a century as a privilege, not a right, and as being properly a matter within the discretionary power of the executive government answerable to Parliament. [More…]
Proposals for independent appeals tribunals which have been raised in the Parliament from time to time usually have arisen from the refusal of citizenship on the ground of Communism or other extremism. [More…]
I recall that not to grant citizenship to Communists or to of New South Wales the State Minister for Agriculture made a statement in relation to the first of the 2 measures designed to alter the structure of the wheat stabilisation scheme. [More…]
Why do eligible migrants not apply for citizenship? [More…]
What steps are being taken to encourage aliens to seek Australian citizenship? [More…]
I recall that, when I last checked the matter to which the honourable member refers, I ascertained that as at 30th June 1969 there were some 208,000 migrants over the age of 16 years and residentially qualified for Australian citizenship who had not made application. [More…]
The fact that a number of migrants do not make application for Australian citizenship results, I believe, from a fusion of factors which would include indecision at to longterm permanent residence in Australia; the fact that they may be waiting for other members of the family to become eligible before themselves making application; unawareness of the importance of citizenship; or being aware, the fact that they have not come to the point of making application or would prefer to become further established in the Australian community before playing a complete and meaningful part. [More…]
It has always been the policy of the Commonwealth Government that migrants should become Australian citizens, not so much for the material benefits which this would confer upon them but rather because citizenship, once conferred, would enable them to play their full part as Australian citizens in the affairs of the community and to have the opportunity of total identification with the people of Australia. [More…]
New areas of need have become evident, and whilst there have been practical reasons in the past to concentrate on speaking and understanding the English language, the comprehensive programme now proposed will provide for more emphasis in the future to be placed on reading and writing English, on meeting the individual needs of migrants and on their citizenship education. [More…]
At the Australian Citizenship Convention in January 1970 Mr Arvi Parbo, General Manager of the Western Mining Corporation, dealt with this problem of language. [More…]
I refer to a paper that was presented to the Citizenship Convention held this year in Canberra by Professor W. F. Connell, head of the Department of Education at Sydney University. [More…]
What action has been taken to rectify the position discussed by Professor W. F. Connell in his back-ground paper ‘Education for Adult Migrants’ for this year’s Citizenship Convention. [More…]
There is refusal to grant citizenship to people. [More…]
Non-English speaking immigrants are not specified because English speaking immigrants and their children as well as their non-English speaking counterparts are to be provided with courses in citizenship education which are referred to in paragraph (b) of sub-clause (1.) [More…]
I believe that to become a member of a credit union is a badge of good citizenship and something which should be applauded by all honourable members. [More…]
Applicants will be eligible regardless of their country of origin or citizenship. [More…]
Are we to deny them the right of full citizenship? [More…]
Why do we insist on the antiquated concept of full citizenship at the age of 21? [More…]
Are we to deny these young men or any young man who could conceivably be liable to military service the right to full citizenship?Today, the youth as never before are separate and distinct in their approach. [More…]
We need these young men and young women to be inducted into full citizenship. [More…]
The majority of the young people who go to universities will be contributing to the progress and development of this country because they are placing themselves in the position where, by gaining knowledge and advancing themselves in the academic field, they can accept the responsibilities of citizenship. [More…]
Native (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944-1964. [More…]
I understand that at the recent citizenship conference you criticised the Australian Government for its immigration policy on 2 scores. [More…]
He claims and deplores that in North Vietnam those deprived of the rights of citizenship cannot vote. [More…]
They acknowledge the inadequacy of that outlay to purchase ‘an education consistent with the requirements of citizenship in a modern world1 - in classes of reasonable size, taught by teachers with adequate preparation, in functional buildings, the classrooms being well equipped and the pupils provided with sufficient textbooks’. [More…]
We therefore recommend a modification of the Selective Service Act making it possible, although not easy, for so-called selective conscientious objectors to refuse - without fear of imprisonment or loss of citizenship - to serve in wars which they consider unjust or in branches of service (e.g. [More…]
The first concerned the application of Australian citizenship vis-a-vis the nationality laws of other countries. [More…]
In the first place, as the House will appreciate, the governments of a number of countries from which we draw our migrants, particularly those in the European area, take the view that under their nationality laws a former citizen of one of those countries does not lose his citizenship of that country if he acquires Australian citizenship. [More…]
What this means in essence is that the person who has taken out Australian citizenship returning to Greece becomes subject to the laws of that country. [More…]
The children and spouses of Australian citizens to bc entitled to Australian citizenship. [More…]
His younger brother has Australian citizenship. [More…]
Further, a matter raised at the Citizenship Convention in Canberra in February of this year regarding the recognition of overseas qualifications should never have arisen. [More…]
Many statements have been made on it, the most recent being a series in the Melbourne Herald’ of last week, indeed, the subject matter took up much of the discussion at this year’s Citizenship Convention. [More…]
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to attend the 18th Australian Citizenship Convention. [More…]
The policy pursued by this Government over a long period of time is no secret to honourable members, lt is a policy of this Government not to grant citizenship to Communists or members of the extreme right. [More…]
However, an applicant’s political views otherwise are not taken into account when considering citizenship applications. [More…]
The full facts of each case are placed before me and if these reveal in the judgment of the Government that the applicant’s activities are such that he is not considered to be suitable to have the privileges and discharge the obligations of Australian citizenship then citizenship has been and will continue to be refused on that basis. [More…]
Acquisition of Australian citizenship throughnaturalisation normally places aliens on the same legal footing as Australianborn persons. [More…]
Possession of Australian citizenship does not, of itself, prevent a person from being regarded as an immigrant’ and as such being denied entry to Australia under laws relating to ‘immigration’ within the meaning of the Constitution. [More…]
It is estimated that as at 31st March 1970, 209,680 aliens over the age of 16 years were residentially qualified to apply for Australian citizenship but had notdone so. [More…]
The fact that a number of migrants do not make application for Australian citizenship when they are legally eligible to do so results from a variety of factors. [More…]
These include indecision as to permanent stay in Australia; a desire to defer lodging an application until all family members become eligible; failure to appreciate the significance of Australian citizenship; or a preference to defer making an application until more fully established in Australia. [More…]
Although the period of residence required by law for the grant of Australian citizenship is generally 5 years, the average lapse of time between the date of arrival and the grant of citizenship is something over 8 years. [More…]
All possible steps are taken to encourage nonBritish settlers to apply for Australian citizenship. [More…]
Aliens under 21 years of age receive a similar letter after completing 2 years residence, when they qualify to apply for citizenship. [More…]
Naturalisation Promotion Officers in New South Wales and Victoria, work through national groups, employer and employee organisations, the Good Neighbour Councils and other organisations interested in the integration of migrants; also Mobile Units tour selected areas in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia to furnish citizenship information, accept applications and interview applicants; [More…]
With the co-operation of Local Government authorities arrangements are made for eligible persons to be invited to attend their local town hall to discuss citizenship questions, lodge applications for naturalisation and have their interviews immediately; [More…]
The requirements for citizenship are reviewed from time to lime. [More…]
For example, in June 1969 provision was made to allow aliens to acquire citizenship after3 years residence if. [More…]
The loss suffered by the British ex-serviceman has been suffered through no fault of his own and it seems to me that there is at least a prima facie case for some compensation, especially for those British immigrants who have taken out Australian citizenship or otherwise evinced an intention to settle permanently in Australia. [More…]
I might mention in passing that the electorate of Riverina possesses some of the most outstanding examples of successful Aboriginal citizenship as well as some of the nation’s most intractable Aboriginal problems. [More…]
But in regard to the examples of successful citizenship, I think I should mention, perhaps with some pride, that a national champion has emerged from one of the families in the Riverina area. [More…]
There is the Migration Act 1958-1968; the Navigation Act 1912-1968; in Queensland the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders’ Affairs Acts 1965-67; the Vagrants, Gaming and Others Offences Acts 1931-1967; in Western Australia the Licensing Act 1911-1968; the Native Welfare Act 1963; the Native (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944-1964. [More…]
Whether a person loses the nationality of his country of origin upon acquiring Australian citizenship depends upon the nationality laws of that country. [More…]
When an Australian citizen who is a dual national returns to the country of his other nationality his Australian citizenship may not exempt him from any obligations, such as military service, which he may have as a national of that country. [More…]
However, Australian citizens by naturalisation may on arrival in New Zealand, or subsequently, be asked to confirm their citizenship and it is advisable that they carry appropriate evidence of it [More…]
In this regard miniature declaratory certificates of citizenship are available from the Department of Immigration. [More…]
These figures should have been an indication to the Department that the programme was falling short of what was required, particularly as lack of communication by language is accepted as the great barrier to citizenship and assimilation. [More…]
Surely, with this problem being stressed by immigration authorities everywhere, including citizenship conventions, advisory councils and other interested parties, a scheme might well have been expected at a much earlier date. [More…]
So important is language that 1 submit to the Government that migrant education should be encouraged by a wider range of activities in language and citizenship instruction, as appears to have been clone in Canada. [More…]
However, iri spite of all the diversity, there is a common thread running through the courses offered and growing evidence of uniformity amongst all the programmes because of the liaison and help provided by officers of the Canadian Citizenship Branch. [More…]
A year ago I attended in Canberra an Australian Citizenship Convention which was one of a number of such meetings which have been held since the war. [More…]
If so, how many officers are involved and what is the citizenship of each. [More…]
of clause 4 reference is made to citizenship education. [More…]
Earlier in this session the question of so-called citizenship education was raised by one of my colleagues - I cannot recall who it was - with reference to the Army. [More…]
I hope we do not finish up with the type of citizenship education whereby only one point of view is put to people. [More…]
When we are talking about citizenship education in the context of migrant education one of the points that should be considered at least is the question of instructing Australian children in the same schools and certainly in schools in areas where a large proportion of the migrant children come from one country, be it Italy, Greece or Turkey. [More…]
As a final comment in this debate I would like to refer to some remarks made by the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) outside the House at the eighteenth Australian Citizenship Convention which I think expressed a quite asinine point of view. [More…]
There is one other matter in the Bill which I have not heard anyone mention, and that is citizenship training. [More…]
But the point is that citizenship is a very controversial subject. [More…]
There is provision in the Bill for citizenship training. [More…]
So 1 would hope that citizenship training deals largely with conditions which exist in Australia. [More…]
There we have the heaviest concentration of migrants in any inland areas but we also have the highest percentage of citizenship of any major migrant intake area in the nation. [More…]
I believe that the education of migrant workers in both language and citizenship should be a normal part of the personnelmanagement practice of all major employers of migrant labour and I would certainly hope, andI indicate to the House my own expectation, that it will not be long before this can be referred to as a reality. [More…]
If so, how many officers are involved and what is the citizenship of each. [More…]
He has a requisite qualifications for Australian citizenship and has been asked to complete the necessary formalities for this. [More…]
It’ is very proper that there should be an interchangeable citizenship between Malta: Australia, Britain, New Zealand and Ireland. [More…]
Accordingly, those people - particularly those such as Maltese migrants who are entitled immediately to Australian citizenship - should be given this right without any further delay at all. [More…]
So far as the Australian end of the operation is concerned, again a number of special measures have been undertaken which include special language training facilities to assist Turkish migrants to understand and acquire a knowledge of the language, citizenship education courses and an increased number of Turkish speaking welfare officers. [More…]
The number of non-European residents of Australia who were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in each financial year since March 1966 was as follows: [More…]
Between 1956 and 30 June 1970 a total of 8562 non-European residents of Australia had been granted citizenship by naturalisation. [More…]
The table hereunder shows the number of persons of each nationality granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in 1970. [More…]
How many migrants eligible for citizenship have not applied for naturalisation to date. [More…]
This group of people would not number more than a few hundred families of Portuguese citizenship. [More…]
Subject to satisfying other requirements a European alien whether he has professional qualifications or not may be granted Australian citizenship earlier than the completion of five years residence in Australia in the following circumstances - [More…]
a person who can read and write English proficiently may be granted citizenship after three years residence; [More…]
the spouse, widow or widower of an Australian citizen may be granted citizenship without being required to spend any specified period of residence here; [More…]
a person whois married may be granted citizenship at the same time as his or her spouse provided the latter has lived here for the period required by the law, i.e. [More…]
a member of the Permanent Forces of the Commonwealth may be granted citizenship after three months service; [More…]
a person who has lived in another Commonwealth country or who has had service under the Government of such a country, may be allowed to count such residence or service towards the total qualifying period of residence required for citizenship. [More…]
The minimum period which must be spent in Australia is one year immediately prior to the grant of citizenship; [More…]
children under the age of sixteen years normally acquire Australian citizenship by inclusion on the certificates of citizenship granted to their responsible parents; [More…]
Statistics maintained by the Department of Immigration record only the occupation claimed at the time of application for citizenship. [More…]
‘Occupation’ is not shown on Certificates of Citizenship and no attempt is made to establish whether claimed professional qualifications were obtained in Australia, as some were, or overseas. [More…]
Since the normal residential requirement for citizenship by naturalisation is 5 years, few, if any, of the persons concerned would yet be eligi ble for the grant of citizenship. [More…]
I ask the’ Minister for Immigration: Are all “ migrants who are British subjects given the same opportunity to apply foi and be granted Australian citizenship? [More…]
Any differentiations which are made depend on the basic principle followed by the Government, which, is that the period of residence for citizenship in law should be relevant to the period likely to be needed to achieve a reasonable degree of integration into our society. [More…]
As honourable members would be aware, .there is a fairly: wide variation in the conditions and periods for citizenship. [More…]
Is it the proclaimed intention of Australian Citizenship Acts to ensure there is no difference in the citizenship status of a natural-born or naturalised citizen. [More…]
Will the Government consider repealing the provision on the grounds of doubtful legality and because it contravenes the spirit and intention of Citizenship Acts. [More…]
Are these persons eligible for Australian citizenship. [More…]
When a person has been lawfully admitted to Australia as a migrant and applies for citizenship after completing the normal period of residence, the applicant’s marital status is . [More…]
Statistics which have been maintained only since 1st January 1963 show that between that date and the 31st December 1970, 1,581 persons of Asian origin were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation within 5 years of their arrival in Australia. [More…]
For how many years must migrants from various countries and in various categories live in Australia before they can (a) seek or (b) acquire Australian citizenship? [More…]
(a) The normal residence requirement for the grant of Australian citizenship by naturalisation to aliens is 5 years. [More…]
The answer to Question 3107 (Hansard of 22 April 1971, page 1965) lists the circumstances in which citizenship may be granted to aliens without being required to complete the normal period of 5 years residence. [More…]
The normal residence requirement for the grant of citizenship by registration to citizens of other Commonwealth countries and Irish citizens is 1 year. [More…]
The classes of persons referred to in (b) and (d) of paragraph 1 of the answer to Question 3107 may be granted citizenship by registration in accordance with the conditions mentioned. [More…]
Minors over the age of 16 years may also be granted citizenship without satisfying any, specified period of residence. [More…]
In all cases citizenship by registration may be sought when the residence requirement has been met. [More…]
This was embodied in the 1969 Citizenship Act. [More…]
What are the percentages of settlers in the forty-nine national categories, listed in the return for the year 1969-70 under the Citizenship Act, who have applied for and been granted Australian citizenship by naturalization and registration during the years of the post-war migration programme. [More…]
The following table shows the estimated percentages of eligible persons who have been granted Australian citizenship by naturalization in the period 1 January 1945 to 30 June 1970 in the alien national categories listed in the 1969/70 Citizenship Return. [More…]
Has the Minister for Immigration read a report in today’s Press of the refusal by his Department to grant citizenship to Greek born Nick Karajas of Victoria? [More…]
As no reason for refusal to naturalise Nick Karajas has been given and as his only disadvantage is his inability to vote in all elections, will the Minister reconsider his decision to refuse this man Australian citizenship? [More…]
They are highly respected in the area and have played an important part in building up good citizenship in the whole of the district in which they live. [More…]
Thai a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
So I suggest: Let us put the full glare of publicity on these people and expose them for what they are - a tiny, unrepresentative sample of our young people who are prepared to avail themselves of all the privileges of Australian citizenship but who are not prepared to accept any of the obligations. [More…]
If this is so, will he agree to the Committee stage of the Bill being adjourned so that amendments can be brought forward to ensure that their criminal records are completely wiped clean and they will be fully entitled to the privileges of citizenship of this country? [More…]
We therefore recommend a modification of the Selective Service Acts making it possible, although not easy, for so-called selective conscietious objectors to refuse - without fear of imprisonment or loss of citizenship - to serve in wars which they consider unjust or - [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, ha.s paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
He has British citizenship. [More…]
Indeed, at the last Australian Citizenship Convention the Leader of the Opposition paid public tribute to ‘the efficiency and humanity of the Department of Immigration under a succession of able Ministers’. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes io see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and .seeks to live the last years of his life in his native laud or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, md seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid’ taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last few years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Austraiian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid,, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member ot the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
member of the Australian workforce for many years,’ has paid taxes and acquired Australian Citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
The indigenes of the island of United States Western Samoa have full United States citizenship, but the poor Tongans cannot readily migrate elsewhere because, as I mentioned, Tonga is a kingdom. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
The facts are that the person who joins the Services accepts a different quality of citizenship, responsibility and a possible result from anybody else. [More…]
ls it a fact that for more than 20 years after World War II succeeding New Zealand Governments refused to’ recognise the certificates of Australian citizenship granted to German, Greek, Italian, Dutch and other European-born residents of this country to the extent that any such person who visited New Zealand was required to report to the nearest police station weekly. [More…]
If the position is as stated, will he arrange for the Department of Foreign Affairs to advise the New Zealand High Commissioner in Australia that Australia refuses to recognise any validity in the claim of the New Zealand Government that any Indian, Fijian, Samoan, Tongan, Cook Islander or Asian- who has been granted New Zealand citizenship has an automatic right to bs admitted to Australia in the same way as a European New Zealander or a Maori New Zealand citizen is automatically admitted if not debarred on health or security grounds, or because of a criminal record. [More…]
In October 1957, following representations by the Australian Government the permit requirement was waived for naturalised Australians for visits of less than three months and in December 1963 such persons were accorded unrestricted right of entry to New Zealand, subject to production of evidence of their citizenship. [More…]
The Department of Immigration made provision some lime ago for the issue of miniature certificates as evidence of Australian citizenship. [More…]
That a migrant who has been a member of the Australian workforce for many years, has paid taxes and acquired Australian citizenship, and seeks to live the last years of his life in his native land or, if an invalid, wishes to see his relatives, is denied pension transferability. [More…]
The Department of Immigration maintains essential statistics of persons admitted with resident status, granted resident status after entry for temporary residence, and granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation or regisitration. [More…]
No statistics are available as to the number of persons of mixed descent granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation or registration. [More…]
Australia does - not require that an applicant for Australian citizenship should divest himself of any other citizenship he may possess before he is granted Australian citizenship. [More…]
What (a) number and (b) percentage of eligible persons has been granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in the period 1st January 1945 to 30th June 1971 in the alien national categories listed in the 1970-71 Citizenship Return. [More…]
What (a) number and (b) percentage of such (i) migrants from the United Kingdom, (ii) Irish citizens and (iii) citizens of each country listed in section 7 of the Citizenship Act as have resided in Australia for the necessary period have acquired Australian citizenship by notification. [More…]
the number of persons of each nationality who were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation between 1st January 1945 and 30th June 1971; and [More…]
the estimated percentage of eligible persons of each nationality who were granted Australia citizenship during the same period. [More…]
It is understood, however, that if a reciprocal agreement exists with that country, benefits may be payable in their home country, and that reciprocal agreements may also provide for benefits to be paid in a third country provided that the contributor concerned has retained the citizenship of his home country. [More…]
This is a lot of mischievous nonsense about honorary white citizenship. [More…]
I think this is a good thing because it gives people in a community a sense of citizenship. [More…]
At the age of 1 8 years he joined the Public Service and assumed that he had Australian citizenship. [More…]
This provision has been taken from old imperial Acts drafted at a time when there was a common citizenship throughout the British Empire. [More…]
Members of countries in the Commonwealth of Nations generally hold British citizenship. [More…]
Pakistan has withdrawn, but all the Pakistani citizens by a law established in London, not Canberra, are still British citizens because before their status can be changed the Citizenship Act of Britain must be changed. [More…]
I understood from the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) only a week ago, and from his 2 predecessors, that the primary citizenship is Australian, but we are now asked as a Parliament to enshrine in law something which is quite ludicrous in the light of reality. [More…]
We have people in this country taking out Australian citizenship to become British subjects. [More…]
Briefly, a British subject is a person who is a citizen of Australia or of a country specified in the Citizenship Act and the countries specified are countries in the Commonwealth of Nations. [More…]
They have not taken out Australian citizenship. [More…]
We do not require people to take out Australian citizenship in order to qualify for pensions and I think that this is right. [More…]
But we do not demand that these people should get Australian citizenship. [More…]
The groups of elderly migrants who would want to go abroad are predominantly those who have not applied for Australian citizenship and therefore this Bill will not help those who are really most in need of this kind of help. [More…]
Let me remind the House first that the requirements for citizenship are fairly short. [More…]
Somebody from a British Commonwealth country can acquire citizenship here within 12 months, and a citizen of a foreign country can obtain citizenship here within 3 years if he can read and write English. [More…]
Although it made a mockery out of the Australian citizenship requirements and rendered Australian citizenship of no value to the Maltese, we accepted this qualifying period of 10 years for want of a better plan. [More…]
It is therefore more restrictive than the present rights as at present there is not that confinement in all cases to Austraiian citizenship as the criterion. [More…]
It applies equally to people who were born in Australia and to those who have settled in Australia; in line with our other pension legislation, it makes no distinction between those settlers who have formally acquired Australian citizenship and those who have not. [More…]
The Citizenship Act provides for acquisition of citizenship by migrants in the following ways: [More…]
The effect of this is that after living in Australia for one year a British migrant may apply for a certificate of Australian citizenship; and if he satisfies the Minister that he can meet the requirements of Section 12, as to character, knowledge of English, etc, the Minister may grant a certificate of citizenship to him. [More…]
Naturalisation - See Section15 of the Citizenship Act. [More…]
The effect of this is that generally a non-British migrant may, after 5 years residence, apply for a certificate of citizenship which the Minister may grant if the applicant meets the requirements of Section15 as to character, knowledge of English etc. [More…]
The letter stated: all these good prospects and high expectations could be crushed if the portability of old age pensions overseas - given compliance With the requirements of residence and citizenship - was made to be conditional on the conclusion of the reciprocal agreements with foreign governments. [More…]
I pointed out also that the experience of the Department of Immigration gauged over 25 years of immigration was that migrants generally waited more than 8 years before deciding to apply for citizenship. [More…]
Furthermore, there is no evidence to support his speculations as to the reasons why a percentage of migrants hesitate to seek citizenship. [More…]
To apply for citizenship is one of the most significant steps taken by a migrant in his new country. [More…]
The second difference between the 2 pieces of legislation is the requirement of citizenship. [More…]
This is possibly the major reason why he does not take up Australian citizenship. [More…]
So, on the Leader of the Opposition’s own figures, one-third of all migrants who come to Australia would be deprived of their rights of the Labor Party’s Bill which requires citizenship were passed. [More…]
Also, I believe that if the Labor Party’s Bill were passed citizenship would be forced on these people under duress. [More…]
It makes no distinction between new settlers who have taken out Australian citizenship and those who have not. [More…]
I know many new settlers in my electorate who have resided there for 15 or 20 years and who have not taken out Australian citizenship for certain reasons. [More…]
Most of these migrants have come to Australia to seek a new life for their children, as they know that better opportunities exist in Australia, and even though they do not take out Australian citizenship, their children most certainly are Australians, as many have been born here. [More…]
There are other reasons why migrants do not take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
The act of renouncing citizenship of the country of one’s birth is a serious and often traumatic experience and I fully understand the reluctance of many migrants to do so. [More…]
We are all hopeful that migrants will eventually want to become naturalised citizens and participate fully in our community, but if they for their own good reasons do not wish to relinquish their original citizenship we should not seek to discriminate against them. [More…]
They do recognise world citizenship much more freely than does this Government which will not even put a resolution to the United Nations on reform of the United Nations Charter to achieve democracy at world level because it wants to cut democracy off at the national level. [More…]
It is designed to create better citizenship in the broad sense and to inspire an acceptance by young people in [More…]
It has one of the highest ratios of migrants to total citizenship anywhere in Australia. [More…]
I ask the responsible Minister to look at the probability of giving full recognition to these people who are Australian citizens, who have retained their citizenship right through and who have served the British Commonwealth and the British Commonwealth only.I can understand some reluctance, to extend this benefit to people who are European migrants. [More…]
The action of the Government in making the repeal of these discriminatory provisions one of its first legislative acts is a token of our determination to banish racial discrimination within our community and is also a step towards building on equal terms the family of the nation in citizenship. [More…]
It reminds us in a nutshell of our citizenship in and our responsibility for the world. [More…]
Shortly, Australians will be able to speak of citizenship rather than naturalisation ceremonies. [More…]
Some of the questions of adulthood by which the relations of unconnected persons are affected are: the age of legal responsibility for con.tractural and proprietary rights; the question of domicile and citizenship; the age at which certain social freedoms are permitted; the age at which marriage is permitted without parental consent; the age of responsibility in industrial matters; and age limitations in respect of financial legislation. [More…]
This Bill extends citizenship rights to those in the high schools. [More…]
This Bill is a token of our dedication in that direction and of the endeavours that will be pursued in this session of the Parliament to ensure that there will be no discrimination between citizens; that there will be one citizenship; that there will be one criterion; that there will be one allegiance. [More…]
We have taken action to develop fundamental improvements in the procedures for migrant selection and counselling; emergency interpreter services; citizenship centres; and special programs for migrant children in schools. [More…]
My Department, the Department of Immigration - which I like to think of as the Department of Immigration, Citizenship and Settlement - is already taking action on the progress report. [More…]
The Government’s proposal to require all future British migrants to renounce their British citizenship if they wish- [More…]
I believe that it is long overdue and that it will make a great contribution to people in the community who have played their part in bearing children, educating them, showing them loving warmth and training them in citizenship. [More…]
lt is also necessary to have agreements between these 2 nations that will protect the rights of the people of the Torres Straits to live on their own islands, have title to their own land and retain Australian citizenship with all that that means. [More…]
While we must maintain for these people such rights as 1 mentioned of retaining their citizenship and living on their islands, we must also consider the rights of the people of Papua New Guinea, given that a continuing continental shelf runs between the 2 nations, to some share in the resources of the seabed. [More…]
Australian citizenship is indivisible in our eyes and you do not deport citizens - otherwise some of us might be on our way. [More…]
Many of them have not sought citizenship, either because they have not been here long enough or because: they have exercised their right not to seek Australian citizenship. [More…]
Members of this House do not represent only those electors who voted for them or even just the electors; they also represent those who do not have the vote those migrants who have elected not to take out Australian citizenship and the thousands of children too young to vote. [More…]
There is no case in Australia for the establishment of second class citizenship. [More…]
Under these procedures, one of the five basic requirements to be met by migrants is that they should have a sincere intention of making a permanent home in Australia, and joining the Australian family through citizenship. [More…]
In particular, I wish to remove any grounds for discrimination in matters of citizenship and employment against migrants or any section of any migrant community. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, of course, then referred to the rule of law, that is, the law of his Government which sets oat that, under the provisions of the Crimes Act, Australian citizens could be deported despite the fact that they held citizenship. [More…]
They must also give rise to the question of how more than 200 people could gain our citizenship without question - if, indeed, that was the situation. [More…]
We do know from the files that there was some dispute about whether citizenship should be granted. [More…]
1 begin by speaking to the main part of the Bill which deals with the grant of citizenship. [More…]
The guiding principle for the Government in the vitally important matter of the grant of Australian citizenship is that there should not be discrimination between different groups of settlers seeking to join the family of the nation. [More…]
So it is that this Bill provides for all, regardless of origins, the same requirements as to residence, good character, knowledge of the language and of the rights and duties of citizenship, and intention to live here permanently. [More…]
To avoid any suggestion of breaking faith with people who have recently come here or who come in the year after the new Act commences, and who understood before coming that they could apply after one year, the Bill provides a transitional period of 2 years during which such people will be able to apply for citizenship after only one year’s residence. [More…]
This means that migrants from all the 31 Commonwealth countries will now have the same opportunity as other migrants to take part in citizenship ceremonies suitably marking the important occasion of their becoming citizens. [More…]
It will end a situation of active discrimination against enthusiastic Commonwealth of Nations applicants for Australian citizenship who have been denied the same welcome as has long been afforded others. [More…]
By these means, and by all other possible means, it is the Government’s wish to ensure that our migrants from Commonwealth countries are no longer ignored or left in the mistaken belief that they acquire our citizenship automatically and that the rest of the Australian community attaches no importance to their becoming citizens. [More…]
We do attach great importance to the conferment of our citizenship. [More…]
It is important to end the confusion which has been permitted to continue since the Citizenship Act of 1 949 and the use of terminology which has given many Australians the mistaken impression they are not only Australian citizens but also citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [More…]
The Citizenship Acts of 1949 ended the common citizenship between the colonies of the once British Empire, the then British Commonwealth and now Commonwealth of Nations. [More…]
Commonwealth countries Commonwealth citizenship and in Australia for convenience, because we in Australia use the term ‘Commonwealth’ ourselves, as British. [More…]
It has served no legal purpose at all because loss or retention of former citizenship depends entirely on the law of the person’s former homeland. [More…]
A Greek citizen remains a Greek under Greek law and an American ceases to be an American under American law upon their becoming Australians, quite irrespective of whether they say at our citizenship ceremonies that they renounce Greek or American citizenship. [More…]
All that is sought by this change is to clarify the real position for those candidates for our citizenship who find it hard to understand why they are to swear allegiance to a monarch they have understood to be primarily Queen of another country where they have never lived and never intend to live. [More…]
Again this seeks to remove a condition of granting citizenship that burdened some of our migrants more than others. [More…]
I also propose administratively to replace the term ‘naturalization ceremony’ with ‘citizenship ceremony’. [More…]
It is clumsy and has, for many, connotations totally unconnected with citizenship. [More…]
For all these reasons we favour and will use in future ‘citizenship ceremony’. [More…]
Turning from the main provisions concerning grant of citizenship, another change achieved by the Bill is to bring up to date the list of Commonwealth countries whose citizens have the status of British subject under the Citizenship Act. [More…]
The Bill also proposes, in line with the age qualification for voting, that a person shall be deemed to be of full age for citizenship purposes when he has reached 18 years of age. [More…]
My particular interest in the electorate stems from discussions with Italian, German and Dutch, but particularly British migrants in my electorate who have informed me that they are reluctant to take out Australian citizenship because they feel that they are not getting a fair deal if they do not. [More…]
During citizenship ceremonies I am reminded that the reluctance of migrants to take out Australian citizenship stems from the fact that they do not feel justly rewarded for the contributions they have made in this country. [More…]
Under the Christmas Island Act 1958, adults who were British subjects and ordinarily resident on the Island on 1st October 1958 could opt for Australian citizenship within 2 years of that date. [More…]
Those who were not 21 years on that date could opt for Australian citizenship on turning 21 years and up to 2 years thereafter. [More…]
Some 12S0 appear to have clear rights to go to Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia through their possession of the citizenship of those countries. [More…]
The remainder have Australian citizenship - about 500 - or undetermined citizenship - about 90. [More…]
The Christmas Island Act will also be amended to enable young people on the Island who may now under that Act opt for Australian citizenship at 21 years, to opt from 16 years with parents’ consent. [More…]
The only matter I query is that it is my recollection - I have not been able to check this out - that the previous Government agreed that, in line with the Citizenship Act, young people who were on the island when Australia took responsibility on 1st October 1958 and who can now opt for Australian citizenship at 21 years should be allowed to opt at 16 years with parental consent. [More…]
The fact that a person is born in this country ought to give him some entitlement no matter where he goes, no matter what he does, no matter how long he is away from this country and that ought to be part of the general acceptance of our citizenship and rights. [More…]
Are we in this Parliament to be denied an opportunity to look at these documents, to know the full circumstances and to know to what degree complicity, be it by chance or by intent, between the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) and others has led to the present sad exercise in the reduction of standing of Australian citizenship and has led to the execution of 3 men, the full story behind which still remains to be revealed? [More…]
How many, persons have received Australian citizenship since election of the present Government. [More…]
How many of these persons were denied citizenship by the former Government. [More…]
Of those formerly denied citizenship, how many had been convicted of offences against State or Federal laws. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Under what circumstances can persons holding Australian citizenship be deported from Australia? [More…]
In tile course of time they were naturalised and received Australian citizenship. [More…]
I do so because I recognise that the honourable member for Moreton has in the past had to depart from the views of his colleagues when matters touching Australia’s independence and Australian citizenship had to be dealt with. [More…]
The whole emphasis of the present Government, led by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), and of my personal administration has been to give Australian citizenship a status and a recognition across the world which it has hitherto lacked. [More…]
Australian citizenship was not taken seriously by the previous Government. [More…]
To support that statement I need refer only to the fact that in the past there was a reluctance to have Australian citizenship recognised on its own for the strength that it had. [More…]
The previous Government did not have the simple conviction that Australian citizenship was strong enough to stand on its own. [More…]
For nearly 20 years it sent Australians overseas with a passport that was a confession of its failure to recognise Australian citizenship. [More…]
That has not been true since 1949; yet Australians were sent overseas with documents that disguised their Australian citizenship and also, I might say, disguised Australia and in the process alternatively amused or embarrassed our friends in the United Kingdom and certainly made monkeys out of the Australians who believed in the emphasis given to their citizenship in the documents. [More…]
An overseas administration that treats Australian citizenship with contempt in the future will have to confront a determined Australian Government dedicated to the care and protection of all Australian citizens - for the first time in this generation. [More…]
Australia does not recognise dual citizenship. [More…]
If an Australian overseas takes another citizenship he ceases to be an Australian. [More…]
For example, 15 of the 31 countries in the Commonwealth of Nations have provision for the recognition of dual citizenship. [More…]
Thirty-five countries outside the Commonwealth of Nations recognise dual citizenship. [More…]
There is an international complexity in citizenship which it is just as well for us to be aware of and recognise. [More…]
For example, a legitimate child born in Australia whose father is a Netherlands national automatically acquires Australian citizenship. [More…]
By contrast an illegitimate child born in Australia automatically acquires Australian citizenship. [More…]
An Australian woman who marries a Greek national thereby automatically acquires Hellenic citizenship unless she files a declaration to the contrary. [More…]
In the context of articles 3 and 4 of the Yugoslav Citizenship Law, a person born in Yugoslavia or Australia of parents who are both Yugoslav citizens is a Yugoslav citizen and remains so even with the acquisition of Australian citizenship. [More…]
Article 12 of the Yugoslav citizenship law does, however, provide for the cessation of Yugoslav citizenship under certain conditions. [More…]
By contrast, just to talk about my own administration for a moment, what I have done is to authorise the initiation of talks to obtain from the Yugoslav authorities a recognition of ways and means of better recognition by them of Australian citizenship and also to reach agreement with the Yugoslav authorities for an Australian citizen of Yugoslav origin to be able to surrender his Yugoslav citizenship by international treaty. [More…]
This would be under their own Yugoslav Citizenship Law. [More…]
The Government will put an end to the neglect of Australian citizenship which has existed for a whole generation. [More…]
One of the most significant of those rights is that of the concept and application of Australian citizenship. [More…]
It is in this context, recognising the importance of citizenship, that we debate the Government’s latest legislative initiative in the area of immigration. [More…]
In summary, the main points of the Bill are as follows: Firstly, it establishes a uniform qualifying period for citizenship which will apply to all migrants. [More…]
Fourthly, it substitutes the term ‘citizenship ceremony’ for the present description used in the legislation: naturalisation ceremony’. [More…]
Finally, it lowers the age of citizenship to 18 years. [More…]
The concept of Australian citizenship is, of course, of comparatively recent origin. [More…]
It established for the first time, the principle of Australian citizenship. [More…]
In their case the present period of residence for citizenship should remain at 12 months. [More…]
I have already indicated that the Opposition is opposed to the proposal to delete all references to the Queen from the oat-h of allegiance taken by migrants at citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
While we may agree that loss or retention of former citizenship depends on the law of the migrant’s former homeland, it is felt that their renunciation of allegiance to that country materially strengthens the new settlers’ bonds with their new chosen homeland. [More…]
The Opposition supports the change of name for the function at which migrants become Australians from ‘naturalisation ceremony’ to ‘cit izenship ceremony’, lt supports also the move to lower the age at which a person becomes eligible to citizenship, from 21 to 18 years. [More…]
If one were prepared in this debate to go through chapter and verse and to take each of the Press statements which the Minister has put out on the question of citizenship directly relevant to this Bill, or on other matters - as my colleagues will do later - one would find that very little of what has been claimed as initiative on behalf of the Government can, in fact, be traced back to the initiative of the present Minister. [More…]
I believe that it observes not only the machinery of wise and impartial legislative procedures but also the necessary and contingent provisions for an Australian citizenship which, through the evolutionary processes of our history, indicate a course of action free from discrimination. [More…]
Any subsequent exploration into the possibility of citizenship status brings with it the complex and emotive considerations of previous loves, loyalties and ethnic attachments. [More…]
The Minister for Immigra tion (Mr Grassby) has already carefully pointed out that renunciation of former citizenship serves no legal purpose. [More…]
We, that is the Government, cannot determine either loss or retention of former citizenship. [More…]
It is not only inconceivable but also manifestly foolish to make a demand up..’/; citizenship which virtually sets at nought a:l that is strong and tender in previous life and circumstance. [More…]
Australian citizenship must always be preserved and solidified by its highest common factors. [More…]
These include reasonable and uniform periods of residence, good character, knowledge of the language, rights, privileges and duties of citizenship and an honest intention to make Australia a permanent home. [More…]
We would expect that all previous attachments and loyalties, far from being in conflict with Australian citizenship, would illumine and strengthen it. [More…]
This clause is to be read in relation to clause 8, by which Australian citizenship is to be granted under a new and uniform set of conditions. [More…]
Registration whereby a migrant with the status of British subject or an Irish citizen who is eligible to be granted a certificate of citizenship may be granted if he satisfies the Minister This may become effective without an oath of allegiance being taken in any public naturalisation or - as the Bill now describes it - citizenship ceremony. [More…]
The Government feels that this is particularly necessary, for many British migrants are under the mistaken impression that their United Kingdom background and their long residence in Australia automatically confers Australian citizenship upon them. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting I was making the point that many United Kingdom settlers are under the mistaken impression that long residence in our country automatically confers upon them Australian citizenship. [More…]
If I have earlier in my speech spoken on the non-British migrant and his second-class citizenship, it would be a serious omission on my part if I did not indicate that the interests of the British migrant are safeguarded in this Bill. [More…]
If comparatively few British migrants have in the past sought Australian citizenship either by notification or registration, we as Australians have only ourselves to blame. [More…]
Whilst we have, accorded non-British migrants citizenship under the official Commonwealth orders and ceremonies, we have left the British migrant to be welcomed by Good Neighbour Councils and other non-governmental bodies. [More…]
Can we wonder that some British migrants have looked a little wistfully at our citizenship ceremonies and have wondered why they were not encouraged to participate in an oath or affirmation of allegiance. [More…]
At a time when the British Government is revising its immigration rules the British migrant to Australia expects a clear and definite revision of Australian citizenship. [More…]
This Bill, which will amend the Citizenship Act, demonstrates how seriously we regard our citizenship and how warmly we welcome migrants free from the indignities of special inducements. [More…]
That Australia welcomes all migrants as candidates for citizenship under common and uniform conditions for all countries will, I know, appeal to an inbuilt British sense of justice. [More…]
I must say that the very fact that we have announced that we are to make a review of the whole British citizenship laws is an indication that we think the time may have to come when changes will be needed. [More…]
This Bill is more than a series of amendments which seek to tidy up the machinery of citizenship law. [More…]
This means that migrants from all the 31 Commonwealth countries will now have the same opportunity as other migrants to take part in citizenship ceremonies suitably marking the important occasion of their becoming citizens. [More…]
It will end a situation of active discrimination against e’nthusiastic Commonwealth of Nations applicants for Australian citizenship who have been denied the same welcome as has long been afforded others. [More…]
This conjures up a picture of tens of thousands of British migrants seriously disaffected because they do not have the privilege of being naturalised at a naturalisation ceremony and, instead, are seriously discriminated against by being able to acquire citizenship by registration. [More…]
I will say little about the reduction in the period of residence except to make the point that we are about to make Australian citizenship cheaper than the citizenship of almost any other country. [More…]
I hope that the Minister is proud to be the architect of this act of cheapening Australian citizenship. [More…]
The Minister appears to be infatuated by the proposition that there is something reprehensible about a situation in which people choose to reside in this country but not to acquire citizenship. [More…]
Indeed, it can be claimed that a substantial proportion of the people who do not take out Australian citizenship, particularly those from Britain, settle in Australia so successfully and naturally that the act of acquiring Australian citizenship does not occur to them, or if it does it does not appear to add anything of significance to their life in Australia. [More…]
By all means encourage people to acquire Australian citizenship by every means, that is, by every means short of those contained in this Bill, by cheapening the value of Australian citizenship because that is what it is. [More…]
Citizenship is an act of identification with the adopted country and with the values and mores of its inhabitants. [More…]
Persons who cannot accept these things have not sufficiently identified as to be ready for citizenship. [More…]
It is just a determination that citizenship should be acquired only on our terms and in the light of our values, not those of anyone outside Australia. [More…]
I am just not prepared to downgrade the Queen as part of our life, of which loyalty to her is an essential part, so that the Minister can preen himself that he has improved the citizenship statistics. [More…]
The Opposition will have no part in cheapening either Australian citizenship or the Queen. [More…]
So it is that this Bill provides for all, regardless of origins, the same requirements as to residence, good character, knowledge of the language and of the rights and duties of citizenship, and intention to live here permanently. [More…]
They include inequalities between pre-school children, depending upon whether they live in the Australian Capital Territory or in the various States; inequalities between our children, depending upon which school they attend; inequalities between men and women; inequalities between the wage earner and the prices setter, inequalities between the electors in the State electorates and particularly in Commonwealth electorates, depending upon the electorate in which they leave; inequalities between migrants, depending upon the country of their origin; inequalities between overseas visitors and more particularly between migrants, depending upon the country of origin; and, of course, inequalities between applicants who seek eligibility for citizenship under the terms of the Act enforced by the previous Government - the Act which this Bill seeks to amend. [More…]
That is patently obvious from the fact that in recent months - since the changes announced by the Minister earlier this year - applications for citizenship have more than doubled. [More…]
The third is the deletion of the necessity for people seeking Australian citizenship to renounce their allegiance to the land of their former citizenship. [More…]
The amendments are designed to restore the renunciation by a new citizen of his former citizenship and the otah of allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen of Australia. [More…]
The first amendment arises because of recent incidents involving Yugoslavs of dual citizenship. [More…]
However, the proposition is surely feasible and clearly logical that Australian citizenship is not granted merely for the asking. [More…]
I ask: Is Australian citizenship to be got on the cheap, on terms, as it were, or is it to be granted when worthiness is proved? [More…]
So it is that this Bill provides for all, regardless of origin, the same requirements as to residence, good character, knowledge of the language and of the rights and duties of citizenship and intention to live here permanently. [More…]
An examination of the 2 quotes surely will provide the answer that the latter position should be so, as it is implied in the first quote that the number of years is not the only yardstick or criterion but other factors are included, such as knowledge of the language and of the rights and the duties of citizenship. [More…]
Surely they should assist us in making an informed guess, which is about as much as we can do in law, and in a great deal of our knowledge, in assessing when a particular person from a particular country should be granted citizenship. [More…]
It is our opinion that whilst we agree with the intended legislation to make citizenship available in 3 years on certain conditions, we submit it is reasonable for British descendants to require a shorter period of residence before applying for citizenship. [More…]
I want now to deal with the removal from the form of citizenship of the words: ‘Formally renouncing allegiance to one’s former country’. [More…]
From the Australian perspective it is not possible to retain Australian nationality after having voluntarily acquired, except by way of marriage, citizenship or nationality in another country. [More…]
This provision is contained in section 17 of the Citizenship Act, which states: [More…]
An Australian citizen of full age and of full capacity, who, whilst outside Australia and New Guinea, by some voluntary and formal act, other than marriage, acquires the nationality or citizenship of a country other than Australia, shall thereupon cease to be an Australian citizen. [More…]
An erstwhile citizen of Australia is relieved of all the legal obligations of Australian citizenship and, of course, he loses the rights that accrue with that Australian citizenship. [More…]
The procedure for divesting oneself of Yugoslav citizenship is arduous. [More…]
The fact of having embraced another nationality in no way abrogates Yugoslav citizenship. [More…]
Thus a naturalised Australian citizen of Yugoslav origin is legally subject to the obligations of Yugoslav citizenship, no matter how long he has been a resident in and a citizen of Australia. [More…]
A child born of parents who are Yugoslav citizens automatically acquires Yugoslav citizenship. [More…]
The law of Yugoslav citizenship translated from the official gazette of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, No. [More…]
A child born in a foreign country whose one parent at the moment of its birth is a Yugoslav citizen by origin shall acquire Yugoslav citizenship if, by the time the child completes 18 years of age, it is reported for registration as a Yugoslav citizen with the responsible Yugoslav organ in the country or abroad, or if the child permanently settles down in Yugoslavia. [More…]
It is clearly in the interest of Australia that our grant of citizenship be an exclusive one, that our political rights and obligations be the only ones to which naturalised Australian citizens are subject. [More…]
It may be possible to negotiate bilateral arrangements with those countries whereby the acquisition of Australian citizenship cancels the original citizenship. [More…]
This arrangement is simply the one which we ourselves have under section 17 of the Citizenship Act. [More…]
This Convention shall not apply to persons who, possessing the citizenship of one Contracting Party, have acquired that of the other Contracting Party without first obtaining permission to renounce their former citizenship, where such persons are resident in the territory of the Contracting Party. [More…]
What both countries require is for the citizen seeking a new nationality to renounce his previous citizenship. [More…]
We of the Country Party stand for one class of Australian citizenship for all - the same privileges and the same responsibilities. [More…]
We want one standard, one sense of values, a citizenship to be prized and honoured, a citizenship in the greatest country of all, Australia, where loyalties are undivided and where all are equal. [More…]
The comment that was made about the attainment of citizenship on the cheap is a remark which I feel many persons in this country presently who were not bom here could only regard as a slur. [More…]
There is no suggestion or intimation that citizenship can be gained along those lines, and that kind of comment can do nothing but hurt and harm to all of those people contemplating Australian citizenship. [More…]
We have heard of this preferment or alleged entitlement given by the United Kingdom to Australian citizens, but in fact under the present immigration laws of the United Kingdom Australian citizens do not have any automatic entitlement to United Kingdom citizenship. [More…]
I venture to say that the decision to stay, many of which have been made in recent weeks, has been made as a result of the announcement by this Government of an enlightened approach to the whole subject of Australian citizenship. [More…]
I have been unable to get figures from the sources available here in Australia on the number of Australians whose applications for United Kingdom citizenship in recent years have been rejected. [More…]
The only comparable country at the moment that requires a person taking a citizenship to make an oath or a statement of renunciation of his country of origin is the United States of America. [More…]
This act is distasteful and unpleasant to persons who used to be required to make it, as is evidenced by the fact that there has been an increase in the number of applicants for Australian citizenship since the proposed amendments to the Act were announced. [More…]
The other matter I would like to mention is the citizenship ceremony, the emphasis on it in the Bill and the importance that the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) has been giving to it. [More…]
lt is a most important day and a most important event in the lives of all our new Australian citizens when they take their citizenship oath. [More…]
I think it is a responsibility and a duty of all members of this House to participate in these ceremonies whenever they can and to help to make them important and memorable to the candidates taking their citizenship. [More…]
I believe that the amendments proposed to the Act will assist materially in making those persons who were not born here and who want to avail themselves of Australian citizenship more readily and more strongly able to feel that they are going to become members of the Austraiian family and that they are able to identify with all other Australians. [More…]
This Bill deals with Australian citizenship. [More…]
Of those not British subjects and eligible to aply for Australain citizenship because they have resided in Australia for 5 years, 701,448 had applied for naturalisation up until a little earlier this year. [More…]
That is not as many as we would have liked, but it represents about 71.5 per cent of those who are eligible to apply for Australian citizenship. [More…]
In the first place it changes the name of the ceremony from a naturalisation ceremony to a citizenship ceremony. [More…]
The Bill also changes the age at which a person may apply for citizenship in his own right from 21 years to 18 years. [More…]
At the present time British subjects may apply for Australian citizenship by notification after having resided in Australia for one year. [More…]
I can see merit in making a uniform standard but I am not happy with taking away the preference which previously applied to British people enabling them to apply for citizenship after 12 months if they wished to do so. [More…]
Their British citizenship gives them that right. [More…]
The honourable member for Darling Downs mentioned dual citizenship. [More…]
If there is any merit in deleting the oath of renunciation I do not believe that now is the right time to do it because of the trouble we have been having at the present time with respect to Yugoslavia and dual citizenship in general, which applies to a number of countries. [More…]
I believe that they ought to be able to go to those countries as Australian citizens on an Australian passport having made it quite clear that they have renounced their citizenship. [More…]
I think the best way for us to encourage migrants to take out Australian citizenship is to point out to them the advantages of becoming Australian citizens. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister on the principles of this legislation and I again praise him for his practical, down-to-earth implementation and modification of the Australian Citizenship Act. [More…]
My first concern about the Bill is its title, the Citizenship Bill. [More…]
Dual citizenship is something which does complicate relations between countries. [More…]
If we remove that renunciation requirement I do not believe we will be in the same strong position in discussions with either the Government of Yugoslavia or the government of any of those other countries in which there is a maintenance of this concept of dual citizenship. [More…]
In so doing, I believe, they are giving themselves more meaning in their assumption of Australian citizenship. [More…]
I believe it is important that there is more meaning in the assumption of Australian citizenship, and more so at this time when it is important that we resolve the very complex position of dual citizenship. [More…]
It has rejected the concept of Australian citizenship as the badge of a free, strong and independent people. [More…]
It has said, in effect, today that it wishes to retain the past where racial discrimination was the factor which dominated our citizenship laws. [More…]
Depending on where you came from and what colour you were the last Government gave out citizenship on a basis of one year, 3 years or 5 years. [More…]
The patron saint of Australia’s migration and citizenship program today could well be Robert Burns, who once wrote: ‘A man’s a man for a’ that and a’ that’. [More…]
The Government is saying to them all: ‘Join the family of the Australian nation through citizenship based on one cri terion, one oath and one ceremony with all discriminations banished’. [More…]
We ask the Parliament to vote for Australian citizenship, one and indivisible. [More…]
How could any Minister responsible for immigration and citizenship go out to the million here now and the tens of thousands still coming and draft them off like so many sheep and cattle, saying: ‘You go to the one year pen; you to the 3-year pen; you to the 5- year pen. [More…]
Yet during its long term of office it left many British migrants completely in the dark about their citizenship status. [More…]
I appeal to all members of the Parliament to look at this citizenship legislation in a nonpartisan manner rather than on the basis of narrow party politics. [More…]
The Bill simply proposes that all discrimination be eliminated from the requirements for the grant of Australian citizenship to migrants. [More…]
The present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), when Minister for Immigration, introduced a citizenship Bill in 1969 which showed a progressive outlook for that time by recognising the growing importance of the status of an Australian citizen. [More…]
The Government now puts to the House in the form of the present Australian Citizenship Bill that it is time we progressed still further towards reality by ending the artificial discriminations in the present Act. [More…]
Any renunciation required by our law does nothing to deprive the individual of former citizenship. [More…]
Australia does not in fact recognise dual citizenship. [More…]
Those Greek or Yugoslav citizens, for example, who in the past have been made to renounce their allegiance to their former countries at our citizenship ceremonies have still remained Greek or Yugoslav citizens. [More…]
All that the requirement has done is cause a great many migrants to refrain from applying for citizenship because they find it a severe emotional obstacle to appear to renounce culture, background and home. [More…]
Finally, there has been an objection to the omission of a reference to the Queen in the oath or affirmation to be made at citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
The law does not regard the foetus as a human being and bestow it with full rights of citizenship, otherwise the state would not condone the ‘murders’ that pass as abortions. [More…]
The honourable member also posed a question which I think related to a case which he had brought to his attention in regard to Yugoslav citizenship. [More…]
I must just say that the Australian Government does not recognise dual citizenship. [More…]
If one of our citizens takes on another citizenship he ceases to be an Australian. [More…]
However, for the information of the House, in view of the great interest that there has been in this matter of dual citizenship, I think I should let the House and the honourable member know that article 4 of the Yugoslav Citizenship Law Act of 1964 provides for Yugoslav citizenship to be acquired by a child on 3 bases: If both parents are Yugoslav citizens at the moment of the child’s birth; if one parent at the moment of the child’s birth is a Yugoslav citizen, and the child is born in Yugoslavia; or if one parent at the moment of the child’s birth is a Yugoslav citizen, the other parent without a citizenship, and the child is born in a foreign country. [More…]
I say in summation that the Government hopes for the support of the House in this sincere bid to wipe out discriminations and to bring to Australian citizenship a new status for the future. [More…]
The executions took place in circumstances which bring little credit to the Australian Government and unfortunately reflect significantly on the worthwhile character of Australian citizenship. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber are most apprehensive lest the actions or inactions of the Labor Government might in any way reflect against those many thousands of new citizens who have come to Australia from countries where dual citizenship persists. [More…]
But the whole objective of including a reunuciation is to ensure that when we present - as we must do in cases of dual citizenship - a case on behalf of an Australian citizen, that we are in a position to say that we do not accept dual citizenship in any way as reducing the rights pertinent to an Australian citizen. [More…]
After all, if we are to accept that we are to discount the value of Australian citizenship there is no point in according it. [More…]
I believe that if we were in any way to discount Australian citizenship it would be regrettable. [More…]
I do not believe that to eliminate the renunciation at this point will in any way assist towards acceptance of citizenship by new Australians, nor do I believe that it will assist in citzenship negotiations with other countries. [More…]
One of the alternatives to the present oath was not considered satisfactory in its present form by the citizenship sub-committee of the Immigration Advisory Council which I asked to look particularly at this matter. [More…]
This point was looked at by the citizenship sub-committee. [More…]
We thought it would be a matter of complete confusion to the people who came from the former British Commonwealth countries - now, Commonwealth of Nations countries - who would under our laws take a new citizenship. [More…]
They would find themselves with the same head of state, a different oath, a different allegiance and a different citizenship. [More…]
The renunciation is important because Australia does not relish this concept of dual citizenship. [More…]
No doubt in our negotiations with other countries to remove the concept, and sometimes the burden, of dual citizenship from those who take Australian nationality we will be putting this point and I hope that in the negotiations the Minister, who should have learned a lesson from the tragic events in Yugoslavia, will put this point strongly and it will help him in those negotiations if he can say that Australian citizens have personally renounced. [More…]
I agree with the Minister’s statement that we should be endeavouring to get rid of this burden of dual citizenship for those Australian citizens who do not wish to maintain it, and to include in the form of the ceremony the formal renunciation may strengthen his hand in any negotiations. [More…]
I too support the amendment because I share the strong feelings, concerning the Queen of Australia and the value of Australian citizenship, of the Deputy Leader of my Party, the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair). [More…]
I wish to quote from the law on Yugoslav citizenship translated from the official gazette of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, No. [More…]
Clause 2 of Article 7 which deals with Yugoslav citizenship by naturalisation states that a person gets this ‘if he has renounced his former citizenship or has a guarantee that this will be possible if he acquires Yugoslav citizenship’. [More…]
I understood the Minister to say that the Yugoslav people did not require a citizen from any other country who was seeking their nationality to renounce bis former citizenship. [More…]
He then is subject to the law of his fatherland because he is a visitor in that country and if anything happens to him he then has to negotiate from a position of weakness because the authorities can say to him: *You are a citizen of our country because even when you took out a form of citizenship in your new country you were not required to renounce your allegiance to us.’ [More…]
The Bill gives effect to the policy of the Australian Labor Party that naturalised Australians are to be treated for all purposes as Australians and are not to be liable to deportation or cancellation of citizenship except for substantial fraud in application for citizenship. [More…]
It is quite clear that, whatever might have been the merit of these provisions in the 1920s when they were introduced, they are inconsistent with the view which we have of Australian citizenship today. [More…]
More recently, at my instigation, special emphasis has been placed on the need for all migrants to have the sincere intention of settling permanently in Australia and joining the Australian family through citizenship. [More…]
In Victoria something like 30 firms and corporations are co-operating in language and citizenship classes at workshop level. [More…]
People found eligible for consideration on these grounds have to show on assessment that they: will be economically viable in Australia; have the personal qualities that will enable them to fit into the Australian community; are medically fit; have a satisfactory character record; and have a sincere intention of making a permanent home in Australia and joining the Australian family through citizenship. [More…]
In the case of each of these persons, what Is the (a) full name and address, (b) last usual place of abode in Australia, (c) date the deportation order was (i) issued and (ii) served, (d) date each left Australia, (e) section and Act under which each was deported, (0 specific reason each was deported, (g) (i) nationality or citizenship and (ii) former nationality or citizenship, (h) country to which each was deported, (i) name of any persons known to have accompanied each, whether related or not, and whether under a deportation order or not, (j) present address, where known and (k) name and address of any person known to have accompanied the deported persons to another country, whether having custody of the deportee or supervision of the travel of that deportee. [More…]
How many persons of each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation between 1 January 1945 and 31 December 1972 (Hansard, 9 December 1971, page 4606). [More…]
What is the estimated percentage of eligible persons of each nationality who were granted Australian citizenship during the same period. [More…]
What is the estimated number of persons over 16 years of age of each nationality who were residentially qualified to apply for Australian citizenship on 31 December 1972 who had not done so (Hansard, 25 November 1971, page 3757). [More…]
How many persons of each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in Australia and Papua New Guinea in 1971-72 (Hansard 25 November 1971, page 3757). [More…]
How many persons of each nationality acquired Australian citizenship by notification in 1971-72 (Hansard, 9 December 1971, page 4606). [More…]
The following table shows the number of aliens of each nationality who were granted Australian citizenship between 1 January 1945 and 3.1 December 1972 (includes children under the age of 16 years included on the Certificates of their parents). [More…]
I remember very vividly that when the government changed in 1949 he made a speech at a citizenship convention which he had arranged but over which he, of course, did not preside because there had been a change in administration. [More…]
Those who like oratory and Australianism should read his speeches during the early days of immigration, particularly his speech on the Citizenship Bill. [More…]
The Common Market treaty seeks ultimately to have a common citizenship. [More…]
How can the citizenship of the British citizen be diminished without affecting pro tanto the position of the citizen in relation to the monarchy? [More…]
Has the Minister taken any action on my suggestion advanced by question without notice on 16 May for a museum of migration and citizenship to be established in Canberra? [More…]
The honourable member for Scullin did ask me in May of this year what could be done to preserve the heritage that we have in migration and citizenship by way of establishing a museum in Canberra to house all of the documents and to retain all of the segments of our history which, I might say, are dispersed and could easily be lost. [More…]
He had expressed similar concern that the heritage of history that we have in migrant and citizenship should not be lost. [More…]
While the Government believes it has support among the community for the form of the oath of allegiance to the Australian constitution put forward in the Citizenship Bill I have accepted the intent of the Senate amendment in the spirit of compromise, but let me say clearly that compromise further we will not. [More…]
With the change in the royal style and tides giving specific expression to the Queen of Australia, the Government has in its amendment to the form of the oath of allegiance for grant of citizenship continued in an explicit manner to identify formally such change. [More…]
With the passage of the Citizenship Bill through the Parliament the substantive provisions contained in clause 2 (3) of the [More…]
Citizenship Bill which include the proposed new oath of allegiance will come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation which will be after the Queen has proclaimed her Royal style and title in Australia. [More…]
It was indicated in the 1971 survey that there was a need then to have a deliberate effort made by the Australian Government to invite people to take out citizenship and join the family of the nation in a more positive way. [More…]
It was specifically reported in the survey that one of the major reasons for people who were eligible to apply not applying for citizenship - I again quote from the survey - was specific objections to the aspects or procedure of the ceremony such as the requirement that applicants for Australian citizenship should explicitly renounce all loyalty to their country of birth and swear allegiance to the English monarch’. [More…]
So, we have clearly indicated the misunderstandings caused by the renunciation and the obvious unsuitability of such a phrase in our citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
On taking office as Minister for Immigration I established a committee on citizenship of the Immigration Advisory Council and I took this step to check on the position as revealed in the previous Government’s survey of 1971. [More…]
I should like honourable members to know who comprised the members of this committee on citizenship. [More…]
Against this background it is very difficult to see how the members of the Opposition can now, after all these years of unanimous advice and in view of the demonstrated views of the Australian people today, impose deliberately almost a hardship on the migrant community and those citizens who want to apply for Australian citizenship. [More…]
If ever there was a need for confirmation of the need for reform, surely it is to be found in the fact that one million residents of Australia who are eligible to apply for Australian citizenship have declined to do so. [More…]
Finally as to the legality I quote the following from the considered opinion of the appropriate officers of the division of my Department which concerns itself with the legal matters associated with citizenship: [More…]
The renunciation of all other allegiances is designed to add to the solemnity of the citizenship ceremony. [More…]
In my view what is proposed by the Minister is a very unwholesome method of describing a citizenship ceremony, which is very important in the life of a new citizen. [More…]
What type of citizenship do we desire for our Australian ethos? [More…]
The Country Party submits that we should have a citizenship which owes its complete allegiance to this country, a citizenship in which no other country has any claim in law on the incomes and services of its former citizens. [More…]
We declare forthwith and in resolute language that citizenship of Australia should be granted only on the formal renunciation of any former ties. [More…]
I was referring to arrangements whereby the acquisition of a new citizenship cancels the original citizenship and all its obligations. [More…]
Unless the Minister moves in this regard, and if he deletes from the Bill the amendments passed by the Senate - the House of propriety and dignity - he will in effect be declaring to the world that Australian citizenship does not grant protection where it is most needed. [More…]
For example, in Sweden there is legislation which provides that if a factory is employing large numbers of people who do not speak the national language, the arrangement under the law is that workshop classes must be held to help them with the language and with citizenship. [More…]
To brush off the whole of the problems of settlement of citizenship in our country with 11 lines is hardly adequate. [More…]
Members of the Opposition accepted the great principle of wiping discrimination but allowed the whole thing to be held up because of a gaggle of words involving a term which is hurtful and which has no legal significance, but which indeed would lend hurt to 1 million people in our country who have not yet applied for citizenship. [More…]
We have a job of building a new national unity based on citizenship and our heritage and on some pride in Australia as an independent nation. [More…]
I am disappointed that there has been no reference in this debate to citizenship. [More…]
We had a Bill in this House not so long ago, which went to the Senate, designed to wipe out discrimination in citizenship. [More…]
Under the old system, people were granted citizenship on the basis of a residential period of 5 years, 3 years or 1 year, depending upon what colour they were or what was their race or religion. [More…]
The purpose of the Australian Citizenship Bill is to wipe out racial and other discriminations in the granting of Australian citizenship. [More…]
The whole thrust of the Bill, the whole purpose of the Bill, is to create one citizenship, one criterion, one oath and one allegiance. [More…]
After the first occasion the Government, anxious to put Australian citizenship on a new pedestal and to give Australian citizenship a new significance, willingly compromised in relation to the form of the oath. [More…]
More than that, the Opposition has callously and hurtfully re-inserted the form of renunciation which means that applicants for citizenship are required to mouth the meaningless form of renunciation although the Opposition knows as well as we in government know that legally the words have no significance. [More…]
Imagine the confusion of an Englishman who arrives in Australia, settles, successfully, enthusiastically applies for citizenship and finds himself solemnly renouncing all allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain just before taking an oath of allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Australia. [More…]
I give notice that the Government will as soon as possible legislate to abolish the meaningless and hurtful renunciation and that the Australian citizen in future will take the following oath - as is proposed in the Australian Citizenship Bill as it was originally brought before this House: I…… swear by Almighty God that I will faithfully uphold the Constitution of Australia, observe the laws of Australia and fulfil my duties as an Australian citizen.’ [More…]
Recognising this, to save Australia from further embarrassment as a nation which has discriminatory citizenship, and to bring some justice to migrants, to rescue the Bill from a Senate pigeon-hole - now a deep well for all sorts of things which have been irresponsibly rejected - this Government reluctantly accepts the Senate amendment and 1 commend the motion that I have moved. [More…]
But while present conditions prevail - and what I have said should not be taken to foreshadow any changed view on behalf of the Opposition parties because I have a strong personal preference for keeping the words in even if the problem were overcome - it is the firm view of the Opposition parties that all people in this country ought to owe their allegiance to this country and that citizenship of Australia is something precious. [More…]
It is a prize and people need to be conscious of the fact that citizenship of Australia is a prize and is something to be valued. [More…]
The ruthless manner by which this Government is determined to reduce the rural community of Australia to second class citizenship is demonstrated by the measures taken under these 3 Bills dealing with post and telegraph charges. [More…]
The Government’s vindictive treatment of the rural people knows no bounds and in an endeavour to reduce the rural people to second class citizenship it is quite prepared to damage people who are politically close to it. [More…]
More than that, the company has also indicated that it will continue to stress workshop classes in English and citizenship, which I regard as being of paramount importance if we do not intend to tie migrant workers to their benches in an inexcusable and unacceptable way. [More…]
But we saw evidence of discrimination in the House last week when the Australian Citizenship Bill was before the House. [More…]
It has been said in this House and in the other House that the people who live in the mainland territories of Australia are to be considered as having no better right to Australian citizenship than to people who live in Norfolk Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands group and other trust territories. [More…]
I myself have raised particular issues with my colleague the Minister for Education for example in relation to curricula reform to provide greater emphasis on citizenship education and the greater availability of visual aids in relation to the teaching of Australian history. [More…]
He then proceeded some years later, I think in 1958, to rail against the previous administration for holding citizenship conventions which were designed to soften up the Australian people to admit Asians. [More…]
The difficulty in this case is the difficulty in so many cases, a difficulty of dual nationality which I might describe as one of the curses of citizenship throughout the world. [More…]
It would be a modest ambition, I would think, of most members of this Parliament, and certainly the Government, that all nations would follow the Australian example of recognising one citizenship and one allegiance. [More…]
It is our intention, following the passing of the Australian Citizenship Act, to issue new guidance on procedures for citizenship ceremonies in the future. [More…]
However, it is true that in one or two regrettable instances some of the people who have been representing Ministers, past and present, have not ‘been too clear as to which citizenship they were conferring and in what country the recipients resided. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the Canadian system of conferring citizenship by saying that it is a magnificent one. [More…]
That would include children, those who have not bothered to enrol and, of course, those who do not have Australian citizenship. [More…]
Our individuality, our way of life, our family life, our standards of citizenship and even our Christian principles are in jeopardy. [More…]
It is really the basis of citizenship where domestic and family associations are nurtured and developed, where human contacts and friend ships and local participations are encouraged in people. [More…]
I move on to the situation that now exists as far as the citizenship ceremony is concerned. [More…]
As from 1 December of this year, as a result of the amendments forced upon the Government recently by the Opposition in the Senate to the Australian Citizenship Bill 1973, British subjects registering for Australian citizenship will be required to participate in the public citizenship ceremony. [More…]
But, as I have said, as a result of the amendments forced upon the Government by the Opposition in the Senate, as from 1 December settlers from the United Kingdom and any of the other British Commonwealth of Nations countries will be required to renounce their allegiance in the oath sworn at such citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
It fought very hard to have the renunciation sentence excluded from the oath, but, as I said earlier, as a result of the efforts of the Opposition in the Senate all candidates for naturalisation and for citizenship will be required to renounce allegiance to the country within the British Commonwealth of Nations from which they have come. [More…]
There are something like a quarter of a million permanent settlers in this country who have to take out citizenship before they can become enrolled. [More…]
If that was the Country Party’s opinion of the new settlers who were coming to this country then it is very understandable that it should insist upon the retention of the renunciation of allegiance in the new Australian Citizenship Act. [More…]
The estimates under consideration are not merely those of the Department of Immigration because our Department covers not only immigration but also emigration, settlement and welfare, citizenship and population. [More…]
Will the Minister take urgent action to see that the Australian citizenship of these people is respected and that they are allowed to return home? [More…]
Certainly, I give the honourable member and the House the assurance that wherever an Australian citizen anywhere in the world is unjustly treated - or appears tq be so - the Australian Government will take ‘it as an insult to Australian citizenship and to Australia itself. [More…]
We will probe it to the end with a view to ensuring that justice is done and that Australian citizenship is recognised wherever Australians go. [More…]
We do this consistent with the approach of the Opposition to the Government’s desire, in introducing its Citizenship Bill, to remove the requirement that, on becoming naturalised, persons must take an oath or affirmation of allegiance to the Crown. [More…]
Since the introduction on 1 December 1973 of the reforms in the acquisition of citizenship and a public campaign inviting settlers to become members of the national family by seeking Australian citizenship, applications are running at more than 20 per cent above the previous level. [More…]
By the nature of their volunteering, they possess a citizenship of the highest ideal. [More…]
Turning to other matters in relation to past policies let me say that we have had instances involving citizenship. [More…]
We abolished all the discriminations in citizenship but we had some extraordinarily interesting cases on file. [More…]
I have personally vetted 62 applications for citizenship, have had them re-investigated and have granted citizenship since I became the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
One of them, I might say, had the temerity to express radical opinions so he was denied citizenship for a decade and a half. [More…]
In fact when he was granted his citizenship he was the president of the Association. [More…]
Nevertheless, he had been denied citizenship on purely arbitrary grounds. [More…]
Again on the question of citizenship, I had a report the other day about a man who was denied citizenship because he made the terrible mistake of parking his car in the wrong place when there were meetings suspected to be mass meetings of the Communist Party in a suburban home - a frightening thing. [More…]
All I say is that the Electoral Act should aim at equality of citizenship. [More…]
1 am not evaluating those occupations, the only point 1 am making is that we ought to aim at equality of citizenship. [More…]
The Australian Government accepts responsibility for any orphans or other children in Vietnam who have established Australian citizenship. [More…]
As the Deputy Leader of the Country Party (Mr Sinclair) rightly pointed out, what are the Government’s proposals for the people of Cocos Island who have opted for Australian citizenship? [More…]
Migrant application statistics are maintained by country of application and not by citizenship. [More…]
There would be only a few hundred who have not acquired Australian citizenship. [More…]
967 of 25 September 1973 concerning details which have been made available to the Government on the trials in Yugoslavia of 8 men holding Australian citizenship, has the translation of the material referred to now been completed. [More…]
Take, for instance, the Citizenship Act under which the Minister has the power to grant a certificate of Australian citizenship. [More…]
Solzhenitsyn spoke out in favour of depressed people in the Soviet Union and lost his citizenship as a result. [More…]
The normal practice is for persons not eligible for appointment on citizenship or medical grounds, or who have not been accepted as a result of criminal convictions bearing directly on the duties of the vacancy, to be advised accordingly. [More…]
The term ‘British subject’ is not denned in the existing Act, being governed by the provisions of the Australian Citizenship Act. [More…]
While a section of the Australian Citizenship Act makes it clear that that Act applies to the Electoral Act, the continued use of the term ‘British subject’ in the Commonwealth Electoral Act would be inappropriate and potentially confusing. [More…]
Statistics by country of citizenship are, however, available since 1 September 1973 when the ‘Easy Visa’ system came into operation and are as follows: [More…]
The Labor Party ‘s handling of migration affairs has resulted in a scandalous delay in the processing of applications for citizenship. [More…]
Since May this year very few settlers who have applied for citizenship in South Australia have been granted it. [More…]
It appears that from the time the Labor Government decided to dismantle the Department of Immigration it could not decide which department would be responsible for citizenship. [More…]
After a period of uncertainty, a period of ministerial wrangling, the responsibility for citizenship was left with that section of the old Department of Immigration which had been transferred to the Department of Labor. [More…]
Six months have now elapsed since the May elections, yet new certificates of citizenship are still not available. [More…]
Many more are becoming concerned that their attainment of Australian citizenship has been so long postponed. [More…]
How can those who want Australian citizenship so that they can travel overseas on Australian passports be sure that if they use their United Kingdom passports they will be allowed to return to Australia? [More…]
How will Australian settlers holding United Kingdom passports who travel to New Zealand be sure that they can return to Australia after they have done all that they can to obtain Australian citizenship but through departmental bungling, printing bungling and ministerial mismanagement they are not able to obtain the citizenship they desire? [More…]
The significance of this has been borne out recently by the apparent decision to give the Bartons citizenship in Paraguay. [More…]
Note: These figures do not include an unknown number of nominees of British citizenship, mainly from the United Kingdom, who will only be subject to the grant of a visa after 1 January 1975. [More…]
) How are persons advised when they have been judged not eligible for appointment on citizenship or medical grounds or as a result of criminal convictions bearing directly on the duties of the vacancy. [More…]
Persons whose eligibility is not accepted for appointment to the Australian Public Service on citizenship or medical grounds, or as a result of criminal convictions bearing directly on the duties of the vacancy, are advised by letter or interview. [More…]
So much happened to the people of Dai-win that if one wanted to deal s fatal blow it would be to take awayihe-rser.se of citizenship and their right to participation and involvement. [More…]
It is certainly implied that the privilege is not predicated on the belief that any Commonwealth parliamentarian will use the privilege to avoid the laws of the land being visited or as a lever to seek citizenship of that land. [More…]
In the Church of which I am a member, the Methodist Church, the President General, the Reverend Rex Mathias and the Departments of Christian Citizenship have spoken out firmly in support of the proposed changes. [More…]
The progress must be based on a very real appreciation that citizenship and all it involves is based very firmly on the matter of privileges and responsibilities. [More…]
The particular Bill to which the Minister seeks amendment is one which is intended to elevate, regardless of their overall fitness, those people who are disadvantaged under the Queensland Bill to a position of full citizenship entitlement. [More…]
We find that the people who have been subjected to this type of existence for a longer period which must necessarily make them the older group demonstrate a greater social awareness and sense of citizenship than many of the young people who have not been affected to the fullest extent by the rather hamstrung conditions in the Queensland Act. [More…]
525 (Hansard, 15 October 1974, page 2371), what answers did the 33 1 medical practitioners give, to the questions contained in the passenger cards completed by them prior to entry into Australia as to their (a) country of birth, (b) country of citizenship and (c) country of embarkation. [More…]
It has been decided to allow the entry into Australia for temporary residence of the following categories of persons having Vietnamese citizenship: Firstly, the spouse and children of Vietnamese students at present living in Australia and, secondly, the spouses and the under 2 1 -year old children of Australian citizens subject to completion of Australian citizenship formalities, instructions on which have been telegraphed to the Australian Embassy in Saigon which will allow the issue of Australian passports to such persons. [More…]
There has been a marked increase in the population; there has been an alteration to the Commonwealth Electoral Act to provide for 18-year-olds to vote instead of having to wait until they reach 2 1 years of age; and migrants have been given the right to obtain citizenship after 3 years residence in Australia instead of having to wait for 5 years. [More…]
What is the average time taken in each capital city in processing applications for Australian citizenship from first contact to the naturalisation ceremony? [More…]
I am informed that at present the average time taken between the date of receipt of new applications for citizenship and the date of approval is as follows for the various offices of the Department of Labor and Immigration: [More…]
The time between approval of citizenship applications and actual granting of citizenship varies considerably. [More…]
Where applicants opt to have citizenship conferred at a ceremony held by the Department of Labor and Immigration, the average delay is less than two weeks. [More…]
Where citizenship is conferred at ceremonies arranged by Local Government Authorities the delay is governed by the frequency of ceremonies held by the individual Local Government Authority. [More…]
The interval between formal Local Government Citizenship ceremonies has varied between one month and 12 months depending mainly on the number of candidates for citizenship in their areas. [More…]
Does this undertaking mean that the South Vietnamese can never be granted Australian citizenship or, if they can, they will not have the same civil rights as all other Australian citizens have? [More…]
-I raise this matter of public importance again today- it was gagged last week- because I believe that the special requirement imposed on 9 South Vietnamese refugees seeking entry into Australia carries implications for all Australian citizens and all those who may seek citizenship in the future. [More…]
The Government cannot deport a migrant after granting citizenship but it can deport that migrant before granting citizenship. [More…]
But if the Government tries to deport a person before the granting of citizenship, that person has a right of appeal to a judge. [More…]
Is it not also true that during the reign in office of the right honourable member for Bruce, when he occupied senior ministerial positions, people were denied citizenship of this country? [More…]
People who had been residents of Australia for decades were denied citizenship because of some suspicion of past political affiliation. [More…]
I make it clear also that it is wrong and false to suggest that this is the forerunner of second-class citizenship. [More…]
The Prime Minister has made it abundantly clear that any undertaking given by any of the 9 persons concerned will lapse upon their acquiring citizenship of this country. [More…]
There is no reason to suggest that they will not seek, at the appropriate time, to acquire that citizenship. [More…]
I say to the Opposition that the qualifying time for acquiring citizenship has been reduced considerably since it lost office. [More…]
There has been a massive increase in the number of migrants seeking citizenship since honourable members opposite left office. [More…]
It is false to suggest that this Government is attempting to invoke second-class citizenship. [More…]
The current role of the school cadet system is to develop in the school cadet the qualities of leadership, citizenship and self-reliance in a disciplined environment. [More…]
The honourable member for Riverina spoke about leadership, discipline, responsible citizenship, adventure and experience. [More…]
Migrants have been granted the right to obtain citizenship after 3 years of residence in Australia instead of after 5 years. [More…]
The National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation has endorsed this specific recommendation and has expressed the view that where any nationality requirement is justified it should be restricted to that of Australian citizenship. [More…]
All present residents of Torres Strait Islands and their descendants to retain Australian citizenship and all rights of that citizenship. [More…]
They will increasingly accept citizenship in Australia and they will increasingly seek to enrol on the electoral rolls. [More…]
2747 on 19 August 197S, has there been an amendment to the Citizenship Act so that Foreign Affairs officers who are not Australian citizens are not precluded, by virtue of the nature of their duties, from becoming Australian citizens. [More…]
It has become clear that, while officers who are not Australian citizens and wish to apply for citizenship must have resided in Australia continuously for one year immediately preceding the date of being granted a certificate of citizenship, the further two years of residence in Australia required for the grant of citizenship may be fulfilled while serving overseas as a member of the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
The new procedures in no way lessen the protection afforded to the general Australian population because in fact those people who travel overseas and who are residents of Australia but who do not have Australian citizenship will be in exactly the same situation as they would have been if they had been required to obtain re-entry visas before they left. [More…]
This particularly assists those people who have not seen fit to take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
I do not think Australian citizenship should be forced upon anyone. [More…]
If such a person accepts Australian citizenship he no longer is entitled to those payments. [More…]
If people contribute to social security payments, as happens in West Germany they are partly personal contributions and partly contributions from employers and they are entitled to receive those payments overseas then surely the fact that they accept Australian citizenship should not preclude them from receiving those payments. [More…]
We have a star to aim for- the fulfilment of the high ideals of citizenship wherein each person is capable of playing his or her part, making his or her contribution to the development of the Australian ethos through its various nuances. [More…]
-Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs)- Pursuant to section 42 (d) of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948-1973 1 present the annual return of persons granted certificates of Australian citizenship during the year ended 30 June 1 975. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs a question about the rejection of applications for citizenship on the basis of secret reports. [More…]
I interviewed 3 men during the weekend whose applications for citizenship have been rejected. [More…]
Is it a fact that some hundreds, possibly thousands, of people have had their applications for citizenship rejected because of some secret report about which they know nothing and about which members of Parliament like myself who make representations are told nothing? [More…]
Will he undertake to review the situation and attempt to find some way in which people whose ambitions for citizenship are summarily rejected will have an opportunity to defend themselves. [More…]
I am aware that some people have had their applications for citizenship rejected as a result of reports made available to the Minister of the time. [More…]
I have been concerned about the practice and I certainly will undertake to see whether there is some other way in which the reasons for the rejection of applications for citizenship can be made available either to members of Parliament making representations on behalf of individuals or to the individuals themselves. [More…]
But I would point out that I regard citizenship as a very great privilege and not something to be given lightly or without some investigation of the individual involved. [More…]
I think it is important that those investigations be carried out in order that people who are granted citizenship can truthfully be said to deserve it. [More…]
When they take Australian citizenship they receive all the entitlements of natural born Australians and they should be designated as Australians of European origin, British origin or whatever. [More…]
The problems that have arisen in relation to re-entry have concerned those people who are residents of Australia but who have not yet taken out citizenship. [More…]
I reiterate that all residents of Australia who have not yet taken out Australian citizenship and who may in the future be travelling overseas should take advantage of this situation before they travel and should go to an office of my department and have their passports suitably endorsed. [More…]
Is it a fact that many Australian citizens formerly of German nationality have been greatly disadvantaged because of the present position where Germans lose their entitlement to their contributory social security system when opting for Australian citizenship. [More…]
To the extent that some people are not receiving pensions from the Federal Republic of Germany because they have taken Australian citizenship, they could be said to be disadvantaged. [More…]
The second proviso concerned the character and manner of review of decisions relating to refusal of passports, citizenship and entry and re-entry, where the decision was based on security considerations. [More…]
How many people have been denied Australian citizenship under (a) paragraph 14 ( 1 ) (f) and (b) paragraph 14(1) (g) of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948-1973 in each of the last 3 years. [More…]
Applicants for the grant of Australian citizenship who are found unable to meet the requirements of (a) 14(1) (f) and (b) 14 ( 1 ) (g) of the Australian Citizenship Act 1 948 do not have their applications rejected outright. [More…]
We are one people with one citizenship and we ought to have one family law. [More…]
When he reached the age of 70 years he was refused Australian citizenship on the ground that he was a security risk. [More…]
Australians desire to be free to accept or withdraw from a particular employment, to change their jobs if the opportunity or the need arises, to join a union or to be free not to join a union, to strike or not to strike in pursuit of legitimate industrial ends and, above all, for an employee to regard his own personality and citizenship as the equal of his employer. [More…]
The others are eligible to apply for Australian citizenship. [More…]
By satisfaction of the statutory requirements for the grant of Australian citizenship contained in the Australian Citizenship Act 1948. [More…]
The figures for the year ended 30 June 1976 will be laid before Parliament shortly in accordance with the requirements of Section 42 (d) of the Citizenship Act 1948. [More…]
No records are kept by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs which would enable it to determine the numbers of persons granted citizenship in each of the ethnic groups who are enrolled in the various electoral divisions. [More…]
1 ) Are alien expectant mothers coming to Australia on visitors’ visas for confinements in order to gain dual citizenship for their chilren [More…]
If so, how many children have gained dual Australian citizenship in this manner during each year since 1970 and with what other countries is this dual citizenship shared. [More…]
How many persons who have received dual citizenship in this manner have returned to take up permanent residence in Australia since 19S0. [More…]
student work, sport, etc: (i) received (sponsored and direct), (ii) interviewed, (iii) accepted, (iv) rejected, and reasons for rejection, (v) deferred, and reasons for deferral, ( vi) visas issued and (vii) the number of persons who travelled to Australia, all in terms of the number of cases and persons, (c) visitor applications: (i) received, (ii) interviewed, (iii) accepted, (iv) rejected, and the reasons for rejection, (v) deferral, and the reasons for deferral, (vi) visas issued and (vii) the number of persons who travelled to Australia, all in terms of the number of cases and persons, (d) migrant re-entry applications: (i) received, (ii) accepted and (in) rejected, and reasons for rejection, (e) passports and documents of identity issued, (0 applications for citizenship: (i) received, (ii) granted and (iii) refused, and reasons for refusal, (g) publicity undertaken, indicating the type and time involved, (h) research into local conditions in industry and commerce and social conditions, and the number of research papers and position papers written, apart from monthly reports, (i) liaison with local authorities and with other embassies and (j) other work. [More…]
Are Asians working on the Island employed on short term contracts to prevent them from staying on the Island long enough to gain Australian Citizenship. [More…]
3 ) In respect of the answer to part ( 1 ), what percentage of the persons in each group is estimated or known to have taken Australian citizenship. [More…]
I understand that subsequently she made an application to take out Chinese citizenship. [More…]
There are a great many people resident in Australia who, because they do not come from countries which confer British nationality or Irish citizenship, have not had the opportunity to register to vote in this country as soon as they might. [More…]
Here I draw attention to an answer I was given on 28 May last by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) giving the number of certificates of citizenship granted in excess of 100 in the various local government areas in Australia. [More…]
I ask honourable members to cast their minds to the citizenship ceremonies which they attend from time to time and at which masses of migrants become new citizens. [More…]
I notice that the American legislation states that if one is a member of the armed forces of any other country one is liable to lose one’s citizenship. [More…]
If he has taken out Australian citizenship he would find himself in the situation of being in breach of this legislation by carrying out an obligation for which, if he fails to carry it out, he would be imprisoned in that country. [More…]
I think there are so many complications involved in clause 6 and there are difficulties in some cases in defining what is the true government of a country that we might be better off with the American situation in which if a person fights in the armed forces of another country- and I think in other armed forcesthat person is dealt with in another way, namely, he loses his American citizenship. [More…]
If a person enlists in the armed forces of a foreign state without the permission of the Secretary of State he is liable to lose his citizenship. [More…]
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The Liberal and National Country Parties believe that the acquisition of Australian citizenship is of great importance both to the migrant concerned and to the community at large. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties will reinforce the significance and dignity of citizenship proceedings and naturalisation ceremonies. [More…]
How many (a) aliens and (b) Commonwealth Nationals 16 years of age and over are residentially qualified, by virtue of 3 years’ residence in Australia, to apply for the grant of Australian citizenship but have not applied for it. [More…]
The following table shows the estimated number of aliens 16 years of age and over who were residentially qualified, by viture of 3 years’ residence in Australia, to apply for the grant of Australian citizenship but who had not done so as at 30 November 1976: [More…]
On what dates did Mr Renzo Di Piramo (a) seek and (b) receive (i) Australian citizenship and (ii) an Australian passport. [More…]
(i) Mr Di Piramo ‘s application is not dated but it was received in my Department’s Citizenship Branch on 10 March 1976. [More…]
I am told that there is no action the Department can take to prevent children from being removed from Australia if the children have citizenship of another country and travel on a passport of that other country. [More…]
5 ) In respect of the answer to part ( 1 ), what percentage of the persons in each group is estimated or known to have taken Australian citizenship. [More…]
what proportion received their citizenship at their respective town hall in each year since 1 945. [More…]
) Statistics are not maintained by place of residence for persons granted Australian citizenship. [More…]
From January 1949 (when Australian citizenship was introduced) to 1954. conferment of Australian citizenship in the Melbourne metropolitan area took place as a general rule in the Melbourne Court of Petty Sessions. [More…]
The table below shows the numbers of persons granted citizenship in the Coburg Town Hall since 1954 and the Broadmeadows and Brunswick Town Halls since 1962. [More…]
In recent years many residents of the municipalities mentioned have had Australian citizenship conferred at non public ceremonies conducted by delegated officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
1) In which local government areas were more than 100 certificates of Australian citizenship conferred during 1 976. [More…]
In answer to the honourable member’s question, the following table shows the local government areas in each State and Territory in which more than 100 certificates of Australian citizenship were conferred in 1976; the number of certificates conferred in those areas, and the total number of certificates conferred in each State or Territory. [More…]
Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware that upwards of 15 000, perhaps even 20 000, applications for citizenship are in hand and are being processed very slowly in Melbourne, holding up the right to citizenship, and therefore the right of the people involved to get on the electoral roll? [More…]
-I am aware that there are a number of applications for citizenship, not only in Victoria but in all States of Australia, and that has been the case for a very long time. [More…]
This Government regards Australian citizenship very highly indeed. [More…]
We regard the granting of Australian citizenship as a most serious matter. [More…]
Application for Australian citizenship should be such that a person has the opportunity to think clearly about his application. [More…]
He should be encouraged to apply if he really wishes to take Australian citizenship. [More…]
Citizenship should not be given away as a matter of no consequence. [More…]
The patronising way in which the Minister answered a question I asked him this afternoon about citizenship is indicative of his attitude. [More…]
That insurance premium is Australian citizenship and perhaps an Australian pension. [More…]
Recently I was shocked to be informed by two migrants that their applications for Australian citizenship had been rejected on the basis of their lack of proficiency in the English language. [More…]
I would like to know whether the English test is applied to all who make application for citizenship. [More…]
It sees to me that with these standards in English for citizenship there should be some examination and follow up. [More…]
The Australian citizenship of these people is not recognised by the consulate. [More…]
Those who wish to renounce their citizenship of Yugoslavia are required to renounce their country in the presence of the consul or his representative. [More…]
In a number of cases in other parts of Australia, letters forwarded to the consul seeking to renounce former citizenship simply are not answered. [More…]
When these people do renounce their former citizenship in the presence of consulate officials- this happens only rarely- they encounter further troubles. [More…]
I bring them to the attention of the House because I find it incredible that Australian citizens living in Australia and ostensibly enjoying the individual freedoms which that citizenship conveys, including the right of free association, the right of assembly and the right to practise one’s religion, are having their rights interfered with by the consular officials of another country. [More…]
It is anticipated that they will return to Yugoslavia and this terminology explains, firstly, why consular officials are not happy about such migrants seeking only Australian citizenship, and, secondly, it provides such authorities with the authority they require to interfere with these citizens abroad, particularly those who do not follow the wishes of the Government of Yugoslavia. [More…]
It seems that the objectives and obligations referred to by Mr Dolanc are being directed against those former citizens of Yugoslavia who live in Australia and who wish to renounce their former citizenship and become Australian citizens. [More…]
Those Yugoslavs in Australia who wish to maintain dual citizenship rights can do so. [More…]
The Family Law Act, and questions of citizenship, dual nationality and passport issue are all involved. [More…]
However, as I said earlier, I think there has to be a greater exchange of information between the Family Court and the Foreign Affairs Department when court orders are issued particularly when they affect foreign nationals or rather those who have dual citizenship. [More…]
Already we have too much of an international problem in differentiating between Australians who go abroad, who purport to represent minor city nations, and who deny their Australian citizenship when they are abroad. [More…]
How many applications for Australian citizenship have been rejected during (a) 1975, (b) 1976 and (c) 1977 to date. [More…]
Have any of the rejected citizenship applicants been (a) deported and (b) advised to leave Australia permanently. [More…]
Firstly, I wish to talk about the vexed issue of citizenship, which is so concerning the Minister that he has written to every member of parliament about it and has written articles for the popular Press about it. [More…]
I gather that the Minister is concerned mainly about the dignity of citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
He is concerned to impress upon candidates the honour and dignity of citizenship. [More…]
If the Minister is so concerned about the standard of citizenship ceremonies I think he should be prepared to offer to provide some assistance towards meeting the cost of those ceremonies, which his Department has persistently refused to do. [More…]
I suggest that it is quite one thing to go to a citizenship ceremony and view it as a political occasion, which it plainly is, and it is another thing to inject party politics into it. [More…]
The Minister got into hot water on this question of citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
By way of colour the remark was added that the Minister was also understood to be concerned about the handing out of application forms for citizenship in shopping centres and market places. [More…]
In fact, when he was faced by the spokesman for a group which has been active in assisting persons to take up citizenship if they so desired, he was unable to give one instance at all and he was at some pains to say at great length that he was not critical of that group at all. [More…]
I can tell honourable members that as far as I am aware groups conducting these drives to inform persons about citizenship would be very grateful for any assistance they received from members of any party whatsoever. [More…]
There is no publicity available in a language other than English to inform migrants in this country about the conditions of eligibility for citizenship and about the way in which they can go about applying for citizenship. [More…]
Applications for citizenship have meant a journey into town, into the central business district, during working hours. [More…]
But applications for citizenship will never be encouraged unless someone approaches people and makes it clear to them that the Government would welcome their becoming citizens if they so wished. [More…]
There is nothing undignified about voluntary workers distributing leaflets in ethnic languages on street corners, providing information about citizenship and encouraging those who wish to apply to do so. [More…]
However I believe there is immense lack of dignity in the situation of half a million migrants who live in this country without the vote because nobody has bothered to go and talk to them, to explain what their rights are and to help them take out citizenship if they decide they want to. [More…]
On the question of citizenship, of course the Government welcomes persons obtaining citizenship. [More…]
I raise another matter in this area and that is citizenship. [More…]
I think that the delays in gaining citizenship are too long. [More…]
I think insufficient effort is being made to inform people of the need of citizenship. [More…]
By that I mean migrants from British Commonwealth countries who are entitled to place their names on the electoral rolls without the requirement of citizenship. [More…]
In many cases people believe that that gives them citizenship. [More…]
I think that citizenship for a person who qualifies by reason of residence and other considerations should be made as simple as possible. [More…]
I know that citizenship places upon a person very few real privileges that permanent residence does not. [More…]
Some of the things a person without citizenship is denied are the right to join some of the State superannuation schemes or State public services and the right to vote at elections. [More…]
As I say, I find it hard to understand why people who are to be allowed to remain in Australia for the rest of their lives are denied-in small numbers I must saycitizenship. [More…]
A gentleman in Victoria named Johnny Sgro, an Italian, was denied citizenship under a former government but was granted citizenship during, I think, the ministry of Mr [More…]
I wanted also to draw the attention of the honourable member for Grayndler to this matter of citizenship. [More…]
I do not resile at all from my attitude towards citizenship. [More…]
I believe that Australian citizenship is something to be prized very greatly. [More…]
The honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) mentioned that we should make further information about the conditions of citizenship available to people. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler mentioned also that he did not mind politics being introduced at citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
I do, however, believe it is not in the best interest of citizenship ceremonies if party political, sectarial or racial statements are made at those ceremonies. [More…]
G. Whitlam)- Press Statement No 113, Liverpool Citizenship Ceremony, Liverpool, 15 July 1977- which is sheer party politics. [More…]
Honourable members have mentioned also that there has been undue delay in the interval between the application for citizenship and the actual granting of citizenship. [More…]
I point out that over 80,000 citizenship approvals were granted in 1976-77. [More…]
What we do say, though, is that Australian citizenship is something to be prized and not something to be taken lightly. [More…]
Increasingly, it is the title deed to full citizenship, more important than a birth certificate or a passport- an identity card, in fact, the only document which proves a man exists and has rights. [More…]
Is it a fact that migrants who have been advised by you as Minister that they are eligible are unable to obtain their Australian citizenship for at least another six weeks, the excuse being that there are lengthy waiting periods for private citizenship ceremonies conducted by your Department? [More…]
I thank the honourable gentleman for his quesiton, because it gives me an opportunity to lay to rest much of the misrepresentation, particularly by members of the Opposition, of the Government’s attitude towards citizenship. [More…]
A number of statements have been made which suggest that somehow this Government is against the granting of citizenship to people who are eligible to take out citizenship. [More…]
I point out very briefly that in 1972 the number of persons granted citizenship was 25,971; in 1973, 34,891; m 1974, 40,709; in 1975, 84,059; and in 1976, the first full year of the present Government, 1 1 8, 1 89. [More…]
These figures give the lie to those people who suggest that this Government is against granting citizenship to* people who are eligible to obtain citizenship. [More…]
I have not given instructions that people should be denied citizenship prior to the elections this year. [More…]
I have said, and I nave repeated, that those people who are eligible to be granted citizenship should be given it in the shortest possible time. [More…]
The period of waiting for citizenship under this Government has been reduced significantly from the waiting period under the previous Labor Administration. [More…]
No black South African will hold South African citizenship. [More…]
I make the point that these two South Africans are being condemned, by their deportation to South Africa, to a second-class citizenship existence. [More…]
In the 10 days immediately preceding the close of the electoral roll on 10 November 1977 for the recent elections, ethnic radio stations 2EA and 3EA were provided with material on citizenship and enrolment. [More…]
Listeners were asked to contact the Australian Electoral Office if they were in doubt about the requirements and to contact the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs if in doubt concerning their citizenship. [More…]
In respect of the Greek and Turkish broadcasts listeners were reminded that Cyprus is a Commonwealth country and that Cypriots living in Australia permanently and otherwise eligible are required by Australian electoral law to enrol and to vote even if they have not taken out Australian citizenship. [More…]
A multilingual pamphlet on electoral matters is being prepared by the Australian Electoral Office for distribution to every new citizen shortly after the grant of Australian citizenship. [More…]
1 ) In which local government areas were more than 100 certificates of Australian citizenship conferred during 1977. [More…]
local government areas in each State and Territory in which more than 100 certificates of Australian citizenship were conferred in 1977; the number of certificates conferred in these areas, and the total number of certificates conferred in each State or Territory: [More…]
They will strip an American citizen of his citizenship. [More…]
The American Government makes it fairly clear to American citizens that if they go wandering off around the world they put their citizenship at risk. [More…]
1 ) How many aliens 16 years of age and over are residentiary qualified, by virtue of 3 years’ residence in Australia, to apply for the grant of Australian Citizenship but have not done so. [More…]
1 ) The following table shows the estimated number of aliens 16 years of age and over who were residentially qualified by virtue of 3 years’ residence in Australia, to apply for the grant of Australian Citizenship, but who had not done so as at 3 1 December 1 977: [More…]
1 ) How many (a) men and (b) women were granted Australian citizenship in 1977. [More…]
How many (a) men and (b) women were refused citizenship in 1977 because of their insufficient knowledge of English. [More…]
Separate statistics of males and females are unavailable, however 596 applications for Australian citizenship were refused because of the applicant’s insufficient knowledge of English. [More…]
It did allow what was described as ‘fit and proper’ serving or honourably discharged service personnel to apply for citizenship despite their being ‘natives’. [More…]
In agreements between the Indian and Sri Lankan Governments signed in 1964 and 1974 it was agreed that of these 975,000 Sri Lanka would grant citizenship to 375,000 (plus their natural increase) and India would agree to the repatriation to India and grant Indian citizenship to 600,000 (with their natural increase). [More…]
The decision on whether to seek Sri Lankan citizenship or repatriation to India is one for the individuals concerned to make, there being no provision for compulsory repatriation. [More…]
Such dual nationals can be subject to laws of the country of their first citizenship, who may claim jurisdiction over them in such matters as military service or taxation. [More…]
The problems of dual nationals cannot be overcome by citizens simply asserting that they do not accept their other citizenship. [More…]
It is for the individual to ascertain and bear the consequences of coming within the jurisdiction of another country which claims his or her citizenship, whether the individual, or the Australian Government, recognises that claim or not. [More…]
The first requires that Australian consular officers perform functions including the following: Notarial acts, oaths, affirmations and declarations such as the authentication or legalisation of various documents, from wills and contracts to school certificates and driving licences; the issue and renewal of passports and visas; the solemnisation and registration of marriages; payment of or advice on social security provisions including medical benefits; advice on the importation and registration of motor vehicles; advice on acquisition or loss of citizenship, particulary on dual nationality problems; provision of information on Australian Customs’ requirements; the provision of facilities for voting in Australian elections overseas; the administration of regulations arising from the Navigation Act in regard to seamen; liaison with overseas legal authorities on instructions from Australia to arrange extradition; advice on exchange control and currency matters for personal or investment purposes; serving of writs and taking evidence; advising visitors to Australia of health and quarantine requirements and reporting on outbreaks of diseases in foreign countries. [More…]
Strong, sturdy Australian citizenship has its base in contented families which treat their houses as their homes. [More…]
) How many persons applied for citizenship in 1 977. [More…]
What is the average length of time from receipt of application to the granting of citizenship. [More…]
How many applications for citizenship were refused in 1977. [More…]
As at 31 December 1977, it was estimated that 400,320 aliens 1 6 years of age and over were residentially qualified by virtue of 3 years’ residence in Australia, to apply for the grant of Australian Citizenship, but had not done so. [More…]
67,429 applications for citizenship were received in Australia. [More…]
The average time from date of approval until the actual granting of citizenship varies considerably. [More…]
Where applicants opt to have citizenship conferred at a ceremony held by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the average dme would be only several weeks. [More…]
However, where citizenship is conferred at ceremonies arranged by Local Government Authorities, the time is governed by the frequency of ceremonies held by the individual Local Government Authority. [More…]
However, the table below sets out the estimated number of aliens, by nationality, 1 6 years of age and over, who were residentially qualified by virtue of 3 years residence in Australia to apply for the grant of Australian citizenship, but who had not done so as at 31 December 1977: [More…]
Is it a fact that total absences from Australia for periods in excess of 3 months in the 12 months period immediately preceding the grant of an Australian Citizenship Certificate, are regarded as breaking continuity of residence unless the applicant can establish that special circumstances were associated with the case. [More…]
Section 14(l)(c)ofthe Citizenship Act requires an applicant for a Certificate of Australian Citizenship to have been resident in Australia continuously throughout the period of one year immediately preceding the date of the grant of the certificate. [More…]
I am advised that the principal nominee was in fact born in Australia and although married to a United States citizen had retained her Australian citizenship; and that she lived in Australia for approximately three years but departed from Australia to reside abroad in 1978. [More…]
Another matter is the question of citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
I think that the Minister ought to instruct local government bodies that as Australian citizenship is granted by the Australian Government they ought to inform the Federal member for the area of who the new citizens are so that he can advise them of where he is and how he can be of assistance. [More…]
I also note his suggestion about citizenship and the provision of lists of new citizens to all Federal members of Parliament. [More…]
It is to be hoped that it will be ended on the initiative of the present South African Government rather than by what might be a violent initiative of those currently denied full rights of citizenship. [More…]
As I announced recently, in a joint statement with the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Australian citizenship will shortly be available to persons who were ordinarily resident on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands immediately before the transfer of those Islands to Australia on 23 November 1955, who are now ordinarily resident in Australia or an external Territory. [More…]
As soon as possible he took British citizenship. [More…]
He is, of course, able to claim an age pension but apparently a man who has served under British command, who was with the invasion forces, who received recognition through a particular award, who came back and immediately took out British citizenship, who was married to a British citizen and then migrated to Australia in 1962, is not entitled, under this particular section of the Repatriation Act, to any benefits whatsoever. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to introduce new citizenship provisions into the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955 to extend Australian citizenship to any person, not already an Australian citizen, who was ordinarily resident on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands immediately before their transfer to Australia, who is now ordinarily resident in Australia or an external Territory and’ who wishes to take up Australian citizenship. [More…]
We can put at rest also the suggestion that the people of those islands will not have the protection of Australian citizenship. [More…]
(a) Data stored on GCS-2100: Personal details relating to passenger movements and citizenship grantees; survey and other statistical data- all temporarily; (b) Data to be stored on word-processor correspondence, reports, etc. [More…]
and (2) Arrangements for conducting citizenship interviews at the Sydney office outside normal working hours have been made when resources permitted but it has not been possible to continue the service. [More…]
The Australian Government is anxious that settlers to Australia should seek Australian citizenship and every encouragement is given to them to do so. [More…]
Its purpose is to introduce new citizenship provisions into the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1 955 to extend Australian citizenship to any person not already an Australian citizen who was ordinarily resident on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands immediately before their transfer to Australia. [More…]
I have not seen the report nor do I have any information directly from the Minister as to what has happened with regard to the qualification for citizenship on that island. [More…]
I understand that the qualification for citizenship is a period of residence of about five years. [More…]
Citizenship is a big issue. [More…]
It may at first sight seem surprising that despite the passing of the Statute of Westminster, 1931, and the creation of separate Australian citizenship by the British Nationality Act 1948 (Imperial) and the Australian Citizenship Act 1948-1973 (Commonwealth) . [More…]
Does the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs recall reports in December 1978 regarding his discussions with the Yugoslav Government about problems associated with dual citizenship? [More…]
It is a fact that, despite taking out Australian citizenship, people from Yugoslavia do not automatically relinquish their Yugoslav citizenship and all that that entails, including the obligation to undertake military service. [More…]
It was explained to me that it is possible to renounce Yugoslav citizenship, but that decision is taken at the republican government level rather than at the central government level. [More…]
Foreigners who become Swiss citizens can take citizenship in the regional area of their choice which then commences and retains their family register. [More…]
However, estimates have been made of settler arrivals by country of citizenship for this period. [More…]
The estimated number of settler arrivals by country of citizenship for the period January 1945 to December 1978 is as follows: [More…]
Variation in citizenship requirements arise from the various categories of employment both between and within the Services and depends on the degree of access each category has to sensitive information or equipment. [More…]
Before personnel of the other Services are permitted to have access to communications and cryptographic equipment, they must meet the same citizenship requirements as are applied to officer entry into the Navy. [More…]
I conclude by saying that Lady Adermann, the honourable Evan Adermann and other members of the family, can be very proud of Sir Charles Adermann ‘s outstanding record of public service and the fact that he always maintained the very highest standard of public spirited Christian citizenship. [More…]
The effect of this Part is that, where a security assessment has been made in respect of an employee of the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth contractor or, broadly speaking, in respect of a person for the purposes of the Migration Act 1958, the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 or the Passports Act 1938, that contains an opinion or information prejudicial to his interests, that person must ordinarily be given notice of the assessment. [More…]
I believe that more and more it will be said that education ought to be tailored to the economic needs of society and that the purpose of education is not the self-realisation of the individual, the establishment of a better Australian community or the production of people who have a better understanding of a complex society with problems such as the problems of rapidly changing technology; but that the purpose of education is to produce people who are prepared to accept direction, people who are incapable of thinking for themselves, people who are incapable of being critical of society, people who are incapable of taking on the critical role of citizenship which one would have thought the small 1’ liberal philosophy since the days of John Stuart Mill had always been about. [More…]
To obtain Government support for the review of Government and administrative discrimination of the Croatian people in matters of citizenship, employment and passports; and [More…]
Australian Citizenship Act, 1 948 s. 46a ( 5 ) [More…]
Australian Citizenship Regulations, rr. [More…]
1 ) How many aliens 16 years of age and over are residen tiary qualified by virtue of 3 years’ residence in Australia to apply for the grant of Australian citizenship but have not done so. [More…]
) The following table shows the estimated number of aliens 16 years of age and over who were residentially qualified by virtue of 3 years’ residence in Australia, to apply for the grant of Australian citizenship, but who had not done so as at 3 1 October 1978: [More…]
Options such as that recommended by RCAGA, or a general requirement for Australian citizenship, are being evaluated. [More…]
(Listing derived from s. 7(2) of the Australian Citizenship Act.) [More…]
We affirm that there should be no discrimination based on race, colour, sex, descent or national or ethnic origin in the acquisition or exercise of the right to vote, in the field of civil rights or access to citizenship, or in the economic, social or cultural fields, particularly education, health, employment, occupation, housing, social security and cultural life. [More…]
We affirm that there should be no discrimination based on race, colour, sex, descent or national or ethnic origin in the acquisition or exercise of the right to vote, in the field of civil rights or access to citizenship, or in the economic, social or cultural fields, particularly education, health, employment, occupation, housing, social security and cultural life. [More…]
You have preached in this House, as has the Prime Minister, who recognises the Greek Athenian theory of citizenship in countries, namely, that there are those who are citizens who have all rights to share in the wealth, but that those who work are not citizens. [More…]
How many people have been disadvantaged in Australia- denied Australian citizenship, denied positions in the Public Service and denied normal civilian rights in Australiabecause of the existence of a security file? [More…]
-Sgro and Sidiropoulos, who are both currently members of the Victorian Parliament and who were both denied citizenship of this country by a Liberal government because of security reports. [More…]
Prevention of child removal is a complex matter involving questions of jurisdiction, dual nationality, citizenship, freedom of travel and rights of the child. [More…]
While there may be a very small incentive contained in this Bill, the fact that the charges by and large fall on people who are not Australian citizens, may just be one extra factor- I will not make much of it- which will encourage people to think about the advantages of taking out Australian citizenship. [More…]
By and large, in our system we do not have anything that people can recognise as a substantial inducement to taking out Australian citizenship. [More…]
Refugees who are quite stateless are very anxious to take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
But for people who are still held in good repute by their home countries overseas, are entitled to return there and have passports issued by their home countries, there are quite often few incentives to encourage them to take out citizenship in Australia unless, of course they are particularly interested in any public employment or in taking any public office in Australia that would require their taking out Australian citizenship. [More…]
So for that reason I hope that the amendments contained in this Bill will act as some small additional incentive to get people to think about taking out Australian citizenship. [More…]
Such dual nationals can be subject to the laws of the country of their first citizenship, who may claim jurisdiction over them in such matters as military service or taxation. [More…]
The problems of dual nationals cannot be overcome by citizens simply asserting that they do not accept their other citizenship. [More…]
It is for the individual to ascertain and to bear the consequences of coming within the jurisdiction of another country which claims his or her citizenship, whether the individual or the Australian Government recognises that claim or not. [More…]
While speaking about this question of dual nationality I should mention that the Government is keenly aware of the concern felt by certain Australian citizens about the new Soviet law on citizenship which came into force on 1 July this year. [More…]
In the meantime I can give an assurance that nobody will lose Australian citizenship through the operation of a law of another country. [More…]
The Soviet Union introduced fairly all-embracing laws regarding its citizenship and the ramifications of these laws should be responded to, I believe, with the best of legal advice available, both at private international law and public international law. [More…]
It would seem appropriate that we should be using some of our monetary muscle to indicate clearly to these countries that when citizens leave them and come to Australia, by a bilateral arrangement which we should negotiate at the time, and if they adopt our citizenship, they should be accepted by other countries as having one nationality only, namely, that of Australia. [More…]
These Conventions provide that persons who possess the citizenship of both contracting States and reside in the territory of one of them, may choose exclusively the citizenship of the other by filing a declaration to that effect with its Embassy within one year from the date of coming into force of the respective Convention. [More…]
Persons who fail to express their choice of citizenship are to be regarded as citizens solely of their country of residence. [More…]
Minors as a rule follow the citizenship of their parents. [More…]
Whether or not Jews in the Soviet Union are the victims of adverse discrimination in citizenship, in rights to religious practice, in rights to publish, communicate, travel, emigrate and organise. [More…]
All of us speak at citizenship ceremonies and make mention of the fact that migrants have come to enrich our lives, that some of our own traditional behaviour patterns have become subjective and that the finer qualities often tend to emerge dominative. [More…]
1 ) How many persons have been refused (a) entry into Australia as permanent residents on security grounds (b) Australian citizenship on security grounds in each of the last 10 years. [More…]
How many persons have subsequently been allowed (a) permanent entry and (b) citizenship. [More…]
1 ) How many persons, showing their country of binh, marital status and sex, applied for citizenship after residing in Australia for (a) up to 6 months, (b) 6 to 12 months, (c) I to 3 years, (d) 3 to 6 years, (e) 6 to 12 years and (f) over 12 years during each year from 1960 to 1978. [More…]
How many persons in each group were granted citizenship, how many applications are still under consideration, and how many applications have been rejected. [More…]
and (2) The detail sought about applicants for Australian citizenship is not maintained in any readily available form. [More…]
Statistics of persons granted citizenship by country of former citizenship and year of arrival in Australia can however be compiled and will be made available to the honourable member as soon as possible. [More…]
Statistics of applications for Australian citizenship refused are included in the answer to Question No. [More…]
How many applications for Australian citizenship, showing the country of birth of the applicants, were received during each year from 1960 to 1978. [More…]
How many persons were granted Australian citizenship during each of the same years. [More…]
What was the average lapse of time between lodgement of the application and the granting of citizenship. [More…]
The average time between the approval of an application and conferral of citizenship varies considerably. [More…]
Where applicants choose to have citizenship conferred at ceremonies conducted by officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the average time is only several weeks. [More…]
However where citizenship is conferred at ceremonies arranged by local government authorities, the time factor is governed by the frequency of ceremonies arranged by individual local government authorities. [More…]