citizenship - senate - 1970

Contexts in which the word citizenship was used in the Senate during the 1970s

As we know, the grant of citizenship has been regarded as a privilege and not as a right and it has been properly a matter within the discretionary power of the Executive, answerable to Parliament. [More…]
I rise to say I have noted what Senator Mulvihill has said regarding the proclamation of a section of the Citizenship Act, and I defer any comment upon his statement untilI have made appropriate inquiries. [More…]
In view of the changing status of Fiji will the Australian Department of Immigration be adjusting its thinking as regards applications from citizens of Fiji for permanent Australian citizenship? [More…]
Minister for Immigration indicate what action has been taken to accelerate the processing of applications from Australian wives of non-Australian husbands who desire their offspring to be registered as Australian citizens under clause 7 of the Citizenship Act 1969? [More…]
That while the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies from the Australian Social Service system, a major inadequacy still remains in 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 in Europe, is denied pensioner transferability. [More…]
That while the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies from the Australian Social Service system, a major inadequacy still remains in 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 in Europe, is denied pensioner transferability. [More…]
That while the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies from the Australian Social Service system, a major inadequacy still remains in 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 in Europe, is denied pensioner transferability. [More…]
and (2) Mr Ysmael has not applied for Australian citizenship. [More…]
That while the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some Inadequacies from the Australian social service system a major inadequacy still remains in 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 in Europe, is denied pensioner transferability. [More…]
Does the PostmasterGeneral contemplate having discussions with the Minister for Immigration about the migrant members of the PMG work force who, due to the lack of Australian citizenship, have the granting of permanency unduly delayed? [More…]
When such persons are in the country of second nationality, (including a country which permits holders of Australian passports to enter without visas) their Australian citizenship may not exempt them from obligations such as military service in that country. [More…]
came.If a new citizen is not prepared to renounce the country from which he came his Australian citizenship has no quality. [More…]
Australian Citizenship Bill passed by the Senate this week provided that the period of residence should be 3 years. [More…]
126 of the House of Representatives with reference to the Australian Citizenship Bill 1973 and that the Committee insists on the amendment disagreed to by the House of Representatives and has disagreed to the amendment made by the House of Representatives in place thereof. [More…]
It is all right for Senator Murphy lightly to brush aside compliance with the strict legal requirements that should be followed in order to change the royal style and titles or the Citizenship Act which we discussed earlier. [More…]
Would the Minister also state the average time lag between the date of application and the date of citizenship for the same period. [More…]
On 4 December Senator Durack asked me a question concerning the new Australian citizenship laws. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, on behalf of the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby), 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 1 973. [More…]
When deciding suitable alternative forms of recognition of outstanding public service in place of the former honours awards, would it not be appropriate to provide an Australian honour running even to a special citizenship status for international figures who render great service to mankind, regardless of colour, class, creed or nationality? [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is it not a fact that Australian citizens of Czechoslovakian origin cannot obtain a visa to visit their former country of birth unless they forfeit their Australian citizenship? [More…]
That the Australian Government’s willingness to officially recognise the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union will cause considerable difficulties to former citizens of Baltic countries who have acquired Australian citizenship and are revisiting the countries of their origin. [More…]
By this hasty act, taken without consultation with the groups of Australian citizens concerned, the Australian Government has seemingly recognised the Soviet claim that the Baltic immigrants, upon their arrival in Australia, were really citizens of the U.S.S.R., and as such are not entitled to assume the protection of Australian citizenship until released from the citizenship of the Soviet Union. [More…]
-I also ask leave to have incorporated in Hansard a document marked ‘B’ which provides a breakdown of the numbers of people of Greek, Italian and Yugoslav origin with Austraiian citizenship who are in receipt of age and other categories of pension. [More…]
I said that I wanted the Chairman of the Public Service Board to be leaned on to ensure that extra staff is provided at the immigration offices in all capital cities so that Australians will get a much speedier service in the processing of their passport applications and so that people awaiting citizenship, which involves their permanency in employment, are also speedily dealt with. [More…]
I am instructed that the backlog of citizenship aplications would not be caused by any delay on the part of the Commonwealth Police Force. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to earlier action I took by which I was able to ensure a higher staff intake at the Department of Labor and Immigration in Sydney to take up the backlog of citizenship applications. [More…]
I have the impression that the absence of a special detail of the Commonwealth Police Force to handle field investigations of citizenship applications is now contributing to the current backlog. [More…]
During the period January 1973 to June 1975 inclusive 1222 applications for citizenship were refused. [More…]
It has been the established policy of successive governments to provide reasons for the refusal of applications for citizenship only where applicants are unable to meet the residential or language requirements or are unable to show they have an adequate knowledge ofthe responsibilities and privileges of Australian citizenship. [More…]
The existing application form for the grant of citizenship was designed with brevity and simplicity in mind and with the object of obtaining additional essential information including the details of children at interview. [More…]
There would be some advantages from the management side if applicants had to specify in their applications the names of children under sixteen years they wished to have included in their certificates of citizenship but this would not have relevancy to the facility with which evidentiary certificates for such children are at present issued. [More…]
These certificates, more correctly designated Declaratory Certificates of Citizenship, are available on request. [More…]
Has the Minister considered a change in the format of the existing application form for citizenship which would provide a place for the names of children of applicants born outside Australia; if so, would it facilitate the issue of evidentiary certificates for such children. [More…]
Yugoslav applicants for citizenship are not identified by regional groupings or origins and, therefore, it is not possible to provide the information requested by the honourable senator. [More…]
applied for Australian citizenship, [More…]
been granted Australian citizenship, [More…]
had their application for Australian citizenship deferred, and [More…]
been refused Australian citizenship. [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 1 976. [More…]
Have they been, or will they be, given Australian citizenship. [More…]
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…]
The office of the Commonwealth Employment Service in Mount lsa provides a service in respect to inverviews for citizenship and other general inquiries of a routine nature. [More…]
What is their present citizenship status, in the light of the Government decision to recognise the annexation of East Timor by Indonesia. [More…]
1) and (2) The question of whether these people lost or retained the citizenship of a country other than Australia depends entirely on the laws of that country. [More…]
So far as their eligibility for Australian citizenship is concerned, the provisions of the Australian Citizenship Act apply equally to persons of all nationalities. [More…]
1 ) What was the final decision of the Minister regarding the citizenship application of Stephanie and Stellina Wangke, two-year-old twins of Indonesian Embassy staff members, Mr and Mrs J. Wangke. [More…]
Were Australian passports issued to the children prior to Australian citizenship being granted; if not, what is the position regarding their individual passports. [More…]
The Australian Citizenship Act precludes the children of such persons from acquiring Australian citizenship by birth here. [More…]
The children will not acquire Australian citizenship until they are granted Australian citizenship pursuant to the provisions of the Australian Citizenship Act. [More…]
Australian passports were issued to the children although they did not have Australian citizenship. [More…]
The average processing period for citizenship applications in New South Wales is currently in the vicinity of three months. [More…]
The creation of the Appeal Tribunal advocated by Mr Justice Hope will not affect the Minister’s statutory responsibility to determine applications for Australian citizenship. [More…]
How many New South Wales applicants for Australian citizenship who applied over six months ago are still awaiting finality. [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…]
How many persons in each State and Territory have been denied Australian citizenship in each year from 1969-70 to 1977-78, because of insufficient knowledge of the English language. [More…]
I will refer Senator Elstob ‘s request for a review of the policy with regard to citizenship to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and seek a response from him. [More…]
If so, how could the Bartons justify ignoring that and procuring Paraguyan passports, thereby in effect jeopardising their Australian citizenship? [More…]
If that was so, and if they rejected that offer and obtained foreign passports, why has their Australian citizenship not been reviewed? [More…]
I can only reiterate what I said before, which is that two different questions arise in granting citizenship to any person, whether he be Mr Kosovich or anybody else. [More…]
Of course, a Minister of the Crown decides whether he will grant citizenship. [More…]
Schedule 2 of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 sets out the form of oath and affirmation of allegiance to be taken or made by a person to whom a certificate of Australian citizenship has been granted before he can acquire Australian citizenship. [More…]
1 ) What is the current form of oath which is required of persons seeking Australian citizenship. [More…]
That might occur at a time when we have completed our consideration of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation legislation and a small backlog of deferred citizenship applications have been dealt with. [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 1 979. [More…]
1 ) Have some applicants for Australian citizenship: [More…]
received letters from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs refusing their applications on the grounds that they did not have an adequate knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges of Australian citizenship; and [More…]
What standards are required of applicants, before Australian citizenship is granted, and what are the relevant guidelines. [More…]
Did the Government pay the fares of those persons who were invited to attend the 1970 Australian Citizenship Convention held in Canberra? [More…]
Between 1945 and 1969 nearly 46.000 Yugoslavs then eligible to apply for citizen.This represents approximately 74% of the Yugoslavs then elgible to apply for citizenship. [More…]
Speaking recently at the Australian Citizenship Convention, the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) pointed out that the committee set up by the Government has already made considerable progress. [More…]
She had a child and the first thing she did when the child was born was to go to the Australian Embassy and make sure that that child received Australian citizenship. [More…]
The grant of citizenship is a privilege, not a right. [More…]
In 1948 when introducing the Nationality and Citizenship Bill, the then Minister, the Hon. [More…]
I do not quibble at the fact that any country must vet the people whom it accepts as migrants, but I ask: ‘On what basis do we finally decide whether the granting of citizenship to a migrant is justified?’ [More…]
It is not sufficient for the Minister to quote what was said in 1948 when the first Nationality and Citizenship Bill was introduced. [More…]
It is significant that when I asked an earlier question as to whether Spaniards in Sydney who took part in this demonstration would have a black mark registered against their applications for citizenship in future, I was told that each case would be taken on its merits. [More…]
Under the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948-66, all Aborigines are British subjects and Australian citizens. [More…]
It was thought in Victoria that it was proper to provide in the 1950s a method to enable the people of Aboriginal descent in that State to move directly into the area of normal citizenship activities. [More…]
Does the Government pay the fares of these persons who are invited to attend the Citizenship Convention in Canberra; if so, what Department makes the bookings with the airlines. [More…]
The Department of Immigration is responsible for making travel arrangements and for meeting the cost of fares of delegates invited to attend the Citizenship Convention. [More…]
and (4) For the 1970 Citizenship Convention the traffic from Western Australia was allotted to Ansett Airlines of Australia. [More…]
Mr Vorstman’s application has been carefully considered on previous occasions but it has been decided that Australian citizenship by naturalisation should not be granted to him. [More…]
It is a longstanding rule to disclose the reason for the deferment or refusal of an application for citizenship only where the applicant is unable to show that he has an adequate knowledge of the English language or of the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship, or where he is unable to comply with the residential requirements of the Citizenship Act. [More…]
As Mr Vorstman’s case does not come within these categories the grounds on which his application for citizenship has been refused cannot be disclosed. [More…]
The first concerns the passing of the Citizenship Bill 1969 which came before this Senate almost 12 months ago. [More…]
To show the zeal of this woman who had acquired Australian citizenship to have her little daughter obtain Australian citizenship also, she travelled the 440 miles from Ljubljana in Slovenia to Belgrade in Serbia and approached the Australian Embassy for this purpose. [More…]
After all, if the woman was proud enough of her Australian citizenship to travel over 400 miles - I know that it is a tiresome train journey because I have done it myself - I think it is a pretty poor show to treat her in this way. [More…]
I think it is a standing disgrace and I hope that when we come back next week we will be able to get some iron clad assurance that this vital clause 7 of the Citizenship Bill will become a reality. [More…]
Following my exposure last week of the extreme tardiness exhibited by the Attorney-General in not implementing section 7 of the Citizenship Act 1969 which gave to Australian wives married to non-Australians and living abroad the right to have their children registered as Australians, when can we expect the decision made by the Senate on this question on 28th May 1969 to be implemented? [More…]
In March 1970 posts were sent instructions regarding the implementation of the provision in question in the Citizenship Act 1969 after proclamation of the provision which is expected very soon, lt is to be expected that overseas posts asked by Australian women about registration of their children’s births would usually have informed them of the impending change in the law. [More…]
This right has always been recognised as an elementary right of citizenship, but it has always been emphasised that to be a right it must be a right of lawful assembly. [More…]
An exit visa costs as much as $5,000, a ‘certificate of French citizenship’ costs about $2,000, illegal border crossing into Cambodia costs anywhere from $800 to $4,000. [More…]
Since the log jam has been broken in regard to section 7 of the Citizenship Act, which permits Australian mothers married overseas to non-Australians to have their children registered as Australian citizens. [More…]
In view of the changing status of Fiji, will the departmental attitude be revised with regard to applications from Fijian nationals who seek Australian citizenship. [More…]
Fijians who have been granted permission to reside permanently in Australia will accordingly continue to be eligible for Australian citizenship on the same basis as at present. [More…]
I looked at a senior official, Mr Tony Shortall and said: In May last year we passed legislation dealing with the Citizenship Act. [More…]
Does not she think that the issue is compounded when some mothers, notwithstanding 20 years of residence in Australia and Australian citizenship, are victims of this Little Rock philosophy because they do not possess Anglo-Saxon names? [More…]
Native (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944-1964. [More…]
Mr Vorstman’s application has been carefully considered on previous occasions bur it has been decided that Australian citizenship by naturalisation should not be granted to him. [More…]
It is a long standing rule to disclose the reason for the deferment or refusal of an application for citizenship only where the applicant is unable to show that he has an adequate knowledge of the English language or of the responsibilities and privileges nf citizenship, or where he is unable to comply with the residential requirements of the Citizenship Act. [More…]
As Mr Vorstman’s case does not come within these categories the grounds on which his application for citizenship has been refused cannot be disclosed. [More…]
If a man is refused citizenship I think he ought: to be told, even if no-one else can have the information. [More…]
If he is refused citizenship because he is a member of the Fascist Party, the Communist Party or to some other organisation - none of these things are illegal in Australia - then he ought to be given the facts. [More…]
He ought to be told the reasons why he was refused citizenship so at least he might have the right of appeal. [More…]
I recall another occasion when Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin and I were present at a citizenship convention which dealt with this housing theme. [More…]
How many persons of non-European stock were granted Australian citizenship during each of the past 10 years? [More…]
The following table shows the number of nonEuropean aliens granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in each of the years 1960-1969, inclusive: [More…]
Total figures only of British non-Europeans granted Australian citizenship by registration are available for the years 1962 to 1964 inclusive, as follows: [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 (I.) [More…]
Persons born in Papua became Australian citizens under the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 which represented Australia’s part in a scheme of nationality law agreed upon between the Commonwealth countries. [More…]
For these reasons Papuans became Australian citizens on the commencement of the citizenship legislation on 26th January 1949. [More…]
It is just that some of the things I have been advocating this afternoon have been hammered out repeatedly at citizenship conventions. [More…]
If he understands English he is able to understand the basic requirements of citizenship and is able to deal with everyday situations which bring him into contact with our legal and administrative institutions. [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…]
In that respect I refer to the background paper of Professor Connell given last year at the Austraiian Citizenship Convention. [More…]
They open up not only the whole world of communication but also the flow of educational, social, vocational, health, cultural and mental benefits, and of course the benefits of citizenship. [More…]
It is believed that the education of migrant workers in both language and citizenship should be a normal part of the personnel management practice of all major employers of migrant labour, and I hope it will not be too long before this is a reality. [More…]
The aims of the Corps include imparting to the cadets a foundation of naval knowledge and discipline, developing character and good citizenship and the qualities of leadership and self-reliance, and encouraging cadets to continue some form of naval service after leaving school. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Health whether his attention was drawn recently to an article in the Manchester ‘Guardian’ which stated that 2 professors from the University of California at Los Angeles made a report to the National Heart Foundation of America which, it is suggested, may earn them the dairy industry’s next citizenship award. [More…]
If the incidents mentioned in (1) to (3) above, did occur, has the Commonwealth Government taken action to strip Lesic of his Australian citizenship and return him overseas to face trial for crimes he is alleged to have committed there prior to his entry into Australia. [More…]
United States citizenship of a foreign born child of an American parent unless the child lives in the United States for 5 consecutive years between the ages of 14 and 28. [More…]
Under the provisions of section 7 of the Citizenship Act of 1969, are similar obligations placed upon the foreign born child of an Australian parent? [More…]
Section 11 of the Nationality and Citizenship Act means that a person who is born out of Australia and whose mother or father is an Australian citizen, providing only that the birth is registered at an Australian consulate, is also an Australian citizen. [More…]
Section 1 8 of the same Act provides that when a person is a citizen of another country as well as being an Australian citizen, the Australian citizenship can be renounced when that person turns 21 years, of age. [More…]
I ask him whether he will look into whether the law can be altered to provide that naturalised Australians shall be treated for all purposes as Australians and not be liable to deportation or cancellation of citizenship except, say, in cases of substantial fraud in the application for citizenship? [More…]
Perhaps of all the social sciences this is the one which until now has received the least attention but it is one which in the future must receive increasing attention because of the proliferation of unfortunates - I use the term again - who are cluttering our prisons and because of the social responsibility which rests upon all of us to try to return them to the normalities of life and participation in the ordinary responsibilities of citizenship. [More…]
I rise to refer to a matter that was raised originally on 19th August when Senator Murphy asked a question of the newly appointed Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) in relation to whether the law could be altered to provide that naturalised Australians shall be treated for all purposes as Australians and not be liable to deportation or cancellation of citizenship except, say, in cases of substantial fraud in the application for citizenship. [More…]
In discussing this matter I will use as examples one or 2 leading trade union officials who were born out of Australia, relate that to past history and then refer to one or 2 utterances that were made by Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin when the 1969 Citizenship Bill was before the Senate. [More…]
None of us disputes that point, but I am developing the argument that it was good enough in the 1950s for people to be guaranteed full employment and reasonable housing when they acquired citizenship. [More…]
I know that Senator Davidson has been to many citizenship conventions with me and he is fully aware that what new citizens want in society today is different to what they wanted in the 1950s. [More…]
They, like any other trade union official, were adamant that while nobody has any latent fears about standing up for what he believes in, there is a sort of second class standard as far as Australian citizenship is concerned. [More…]
If they have Australian citizenship conferred on them there should not be that latent fear because of their backgrounds. [More…]
This would be a practical gesture to the requirements or the attitudes of people in ethnic groups in Australia who have taken on Austraiian citizenship. [More…]
The proposal was that naturalised Australians should be treated for all purposes as Australians and not be liable for deportation or cancellation of citizenship except for substantial fraud in application for citizenship. [More…]
To go back into history, in 1969 this Senate adopted the 1969 Citizenship Bill. [More…]
I would like to take this theme further and refer to the latter part of the debate on the Citizenship Bill which took place on 28th Mav 1969. [More…]
Senator Dame
Annabelle Rankin, who represented the Minister for Immigration, said that of course citizenship is a matter of privilege. [More…]
The point I am making - and it meshes in with our policy - is that if citizenship has been conferred on a person we should be quite clear that there are not double standards. [More…]
We do not want people to feel that there is a sword of Damocles hanging over their head because the Government says: ‘Yes, you have citizenship, but . [More…]
The point I put very clearly to the Attorney-General is this: If it was good enough when the 1969 Citizenship Bill was adopted and if it has been good enough at every citizenship convention to argue along the lines that everyone will be put on an egalitarian basis before the law, this should in fact be the case. [More…]
But I always believe in saying: ‘Look, you have got citizenship. [More…]
The question which was asked of me by Senator Murphy on 19th August last was a question which in general terms asked me to look into whether the law can be altered to provide that naturalised Australians shall be treated for all purposes as Australians and not liable for deportation or cancellation of citizenship except, say, in cases of substantial fraud in the application for citizenship. [More…]
I should say in passing that there are provisions contained in the Citizenship Act at present whereby citizenship can be taken away from a person who has been naturalised if there is fraud in the application which was made for the citizenship. [More…]
Some of them were restored to good citizenship. [More…]
Was consideration given to my remarks at a recent Citizenship Convention that membership of the Immigration Planning Council should be conferred on post-war migrants in the trade union movement in addition to Australian Council of Trade Unions personnel? [More…]
Has the New Zealand Government agreed to extend to all Australian citizens, regardless of ethnic origin, the right to enter New Zealand without a visa, providing that they can satisfythe authorities of their Australian citizenship? [More…]
The New Zealand Government announced on 30th July 1971 that all Australian citizens normally resident in Australia, irrespective of their ethnic origin, will be permitted to enter New Zealand either as visitors or as residents upon their satisfying the authorities at the point of arrival of their Australian citizenship. [More…]
… is the type of citizenship we would expect in due course from university students. [More…]
The Petition of the undersigned respectfully showeth: that while the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies from the Australian Social Service System, a major inadequacy, still remains in 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 in Europe, is denied pensioner transferability. [More…]
There is a report in today’s Melbourne ‘Herald’ that a suggestion was made in the House of Lords that Australians who are in Britain on a permanent business appointment could receive United Kingdom citizenship at the end of 3 years. [More…]
British people the right to take a certain course of action to obtain Australian citizenship. [More…]
1 ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration whether it is a fact that twice in the past 18 months the Minister has rejected an application for Australian citizenship from Mr Felipe Ysmael. [More…]
and (c) The Annual Return to Parliament of persons granted Australian citizenship during 1970-71 by virtue of the grant of certificates of citizenship under Sections 15 and 12 of the Citizenship Act, 1948-1969, provides both a breakdown on a nationality basis of the 27,343 persons naturalised, and the countries of origin of the 7,750 persons who were registered as Australian citizens. [More…]
Statistics are not maintained of the countries of origin of persons whose citizenship applications are deferred or refused. [More…]
Inadequate knowledge of English and the responsibilites and privileges of Australian citizenship. [More…]
I think the honourable senator could develop that argument in a variety of ways to suggest that our educational process could well take account of a much broader range of application in terms of citizenship - certainly, in my experience, to a greater extent than is carried out at the present time. [More…]
Of course there is the carryover of an earlier idea that the responsibilities of citizenship were best acquired by experience and that the problems of how to live with one another in a domestic relationship were best culled from the family example. [More…]
That while the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies from the Aus tralian Social Service system, a major inadequacy still remains in 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, wishesto see his relatives in Europe, is denied pensioner transferability. [More…]
Will the Minister, therefore, introduce along lines similar to citizenship instruction, education in domestic economics and family budgeting for students in their last year of schooling? [More…]
How many applications for Australian citizenship have been (a) refused, and (b) deferred, in each of the past 10 years, on the grounds of inadequate knowledge of English. [More…]
What procedure does the Department of Immigration adopt to determine whether an applicant for Australian citizenship possesses an adequate knowledge of English. [More…]
(a) and (b) Statistics are not maintained of the number of applications for Australian citizenship refused or deferredsolely on the grounds of inadequate knowledge of English. [More…]
However, the following table shows the number of applications refused or deferred on the grounds of inadequate knowledge of English or lack of knowledge of responsibilities and privileges of citizenship in each of the past ten years: [More…]
For the grant of citizenship the phrase adequate knowledge of English’ is interpreted to mean an ability to speak the language and understand it. [More…]
Has the Minister twice, in the past 18 months, rejected applications by Mr Felipe Ysmael for Australian citizenship: if so why were the applications rejected? [More…]
I do not think the English migrants have to take out citizenship. [More…]
As British citizens they do not have to take out Australian citizenship in order to become eligible for such benefits, but other migrants have to take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
That while the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies from the Australian social service system a major inadequacy still remains in 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 in Europe, is denied pensioner transferability. [More…]
Under what circumstances was William Beck able to claim Australian citizenship when arrested in Mexico, and were they consistent with the provisions of the Citizenship Act 1969. [More…]
William Beck, whose full name is Burt William Leroy Beck, was born at Subiaco, Western Australia on 21st May 1944 and is deemed to be an Australian citizen under the provisions of section 25 (I) (a) of the Citizenship Act 1948-1956. [More…]
It was later, when the United States authorities withdrew Beck’s US citizenship,- that the Australian Embassy was informed and he was issued with an Australian passport. [More…]
I know that spokesmen for the Department of Immigration will talk about the series of advisory committees that filter various ideas, and also about the Australian Citizenship Convention. [More…]
If my colleague Senator Cavanagh were in the chamber he would support me when I say that he and I have attended most of the Australian citizenship conventions. [More…]
They have migrated here, have sought to enter the country on a permanent basis and, in many cases, have made a firm decision not lo accept Australian citizenship. [More…]
I think the matter should be examined in depth so that wc can ascertain the reasons why many thousands of people, not just half a dozen, have come to this country and have decided not to accept Australian citizenship. [More…]
I think it must be remembered that over the years the Government has made it easier for migrants to accept citizenship. [More…]
We have relaxed certain aspects of the naturalisation procedures so that migrants will more readily accept Australian citizenship. [More…]
The entitlement to invalid pension has been relaxed to the extent that a period of continuous citizenship for 10 years is no longer required. [More…]
The entitlement to the age pension has been relaxed technically, but not to the extent that a natural born Australian or an immigrant who has accepted citizenship can obtain the benefits of the age pension if he has not had 10 years continuous residence in this country. [More…]
In 1968 I attended, with Senator Cavanagh and others, the Australian Citizenship Convention in Canberra. [More…]
These officers arrange for a programme of English language instruction and citizenship education for migrants during the voyage. [More…]
From the honourable senator’s question I am not at all clear about what he regards as being the delay in the granting of citizenship to these workers. [More…]
He knows that the Citizenship Act requires that the Minister for Immigration must be satisfied as to a number of matters before a person who has applied for citizenship can be granted citizenship. [More…]
Those matters include character, knowledge of English, knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship and the length of residence in Australia. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh and I were at a citizenship convention when Sir Hubert Opperman and Gough Whitlam, who was our Deputy Leader at the time, concurred on relaxing the status of non-European people who wanted to come to this country. [More…]
The point at which I take umbrage - it is based on an article written by a journalist named John Stockhouse - is that there is a difference between native born Australians who visit Fiji and those visitors who have acquired citizenship by naturalisation. [More…]
Therefore they considered that he should put up a bond that would enable him to be flown back to Holland and not to Australia, the country of which he had acquired citizenship, if he got into economic difficulties. [More…]
We were able to get the New Zealand authorities to accept that all who had Australian citizenship were intended to be equal at least in the eyes of the law. [More…]
Migrants who are stateless and who can comply with the requirements of the Citizenship Act in relation to good character as well as other matters may acquire Australian citizenship. [More…]
In this respect they are on the same footing as persons who come to Australia from other countries and who seek citizenship. [More…]
Migrants who had been here not long enough to become Australian citizens felt that, being employed in the PostmasterGeneral’s Department and being ready and willing to accept Australian citizenship, they could find themselves in a cleft stick If there happened to be a contraction of the work force. [More…]
If the Government wishes to be a little flexible about citizenship it can accelerate the permanency of these people. [More…]
This has been done in the case of people who did not have Australian citizenship. [More…]
If the Minister wishes to raise the question of security I can answer it in this way: In Hansard of the House of Representatives of 11th April a question was answered by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) in which he said that some of our embassies employ people who do not hold Australian citizenship. [More…]
I say quite sincerely that in this age when jobs are not easy to get, when people are looking for security and are ready and willing to accept Australian citizenship, legal process should be accelerated. [More…]
What is the normal period of time between the application by a British migrant for Australian citizenship and the acquisition of that status. [More…]
The grant of Australian citizenship to a British migrant seeking registration as an Australian citizen under section 12 of the Citizenship Act 1948- 1969 is normally completed within 3 months from the receipt of the application. [More…]
The acquisition of Australian citizenship by a British migrant who, under section 11c of the Citizenship Act 1948-1969, gives notice of desire to become an Australian citizen, is effective from the date upon which the notice is received by an authorised officer. [More…]
Of recent times he has acquired Australian citizenship. [More…]
There are times when we have to speak up for the equity of people of various nationalities who acquire Australian citizenship. [More…]
They need advice on planning estates, arranging finance, the use of trust funds, entering into contracts, asserting citizen rights under the Constitution, defending themselves or their families in the courts of the land, fighting for their freedom and liberty, and generally in asserting citizenship. [More…]
Secondly, can the Minister ascertain also why my general complaint, voiced over 2 years ago at a Citizenship Convention, that the introduction of a uniform adoption law was essential has not been followed through by the Minister? [More…]
It applies equally to people who were born in Australia and to those who have settled here; 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…]
Neither had he renounced his French citizenship as is possible and which provides immunity from the liability for military service. [More…]
This is because they do not, under Greek law, lose their Greek citizenship when they are naturalised in this country. [More…]
When a person has dual citizenship, the principle of master nationality applies so that the person in the jurisdiction of one of those countries is subject to the laws of that country. [More…]
Article i of the Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the residence and employment of Yugoslav citizens in Australia defines a Yugoslav citizen as a person possessing Yugoslav citizenship in accordance with the laws in force in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. [More…]
The important thing in the article to which I have referred is that Poland does not ask its people who come back from the United States to give up their American citizenship. [More…]
In view of the apparent concession by the Polish Government that Polish migrants who have acquired United States citizenship need not worry about their citizenship being in jeopardy, I think it is fair to put to the Government that it should, if it has not already done so, seek to obtain the attitude of the Polish Government to this matter. [More…]
The Council has 3 standing committees, namely, the Committee on Social Patterns under the chairmanship of Professor George Zubrzycki, the Committee on Migrant Education under the chairmanship of Dr Sam Richardson, and the Committee on Citizenship under the chairmanship of Mr George Hastie. [More…]
Does the Minister, as a parent of 2 young children, know that the programme eschews violence and tries to teach good citizenship and the best of human qualities without becoming precocious? [More…]
For the information of Senator Gair, these people have established sound careers and have demonstrated good citizenship in this community. [More…]
For years now the mere declaration by Yugoslavs that they have Australian citizenship but their country of origin was Yugoslavia have been enough to draw abuse backed up by physical attacks. [More…]
The Government belatedly conceded that there were some people to whom it would not give citizenship. [More…]
As far as the future is concerned, I think representatives of the Department of Foreign Affairs who attend functions should give an idea of and warn these people what citizenship responsibilities mean. [More…]
How does he explain the earlier decision of the Department of Immigration, as shown in its statistics on people who have been declined citizenship, where the term ‘Ustasha activities’ is used? [More…]
ls it a fact that 5 other naturalised Australians are at present missing in Yugoslavia, pressure having been exerted upon them to renounce their Australian citizenship? [More…]
There has been very little trouble of this kind but when it occurs it is up to us to take the strongest of stands on the rights of people to whom we have granted Australian citizenship. [More…]
their birth, who have Australian citizenship are entitled to the protection of the Australian authorities and the assurance that their government will make the strongest representations and view with the greatest concern any deprivation of their rights as Australians when they are in European countries. [More…]
But she was told that, because of the dual citizenship, the Yugoslav Government regarded the boy as a Yugoslav citizen and the Embassy could give no help. [More…]
I think the principle involved is: What protection can the Australian Government afford to Australian nationals - not merely those with Australian citizenship but also those who have resided in Australia for a considerable time? [More…]
The Australian Embassy has been informed that Mr Pilioras had been deprived of his Greek citizenship and that his name had been included in the list of persons who are to be denied entry, ft was for this reason that the Aliens Branch at Athens airport placed restrictions upon him. [More…]
Secondly, the State has the right to ensure or to insist that children are educated to a standard that will fit them for good citizenship. [More…]
For example, special priority has been given to the urgent, sympathetic processing of applications from Asian residents of Uganda, regardless of their citizenship, who wish to emigrate to Australia. [More…]
Australian citizen of those islands have citizenship transferred to that of any other nation unless with his or her explicit consent. [More…]
They do not want to be transferred from the citizenship of Australia. [More…]
The Government is adopt ing a flexible approach to the matter and is considering a number of proposals which may enable changes to be made while at the same time preserving the citizenship and land rights of those Torres Strait islanders affected. [More…]
That in no circumstances should any individual Australian citizen of those islands have citizenship transferred to that of any other nation unless with his or her explicit consent. [More…]
That in no circumstances should any individual Australian citizen of those islands have citizenship transferred to that of any other nation unless with his or her explicit consent. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Works, Senator Cavanagh, and I have attended many citizenship conventions. [More…]
It is true that by far the greatest majority of people now recognise that social services are a right conferred by citizenship and not a privilege which may be conceded with some philanthropic motive to those people who are described as the deserving poor and needy. [More…]
A sub-committee of the Council is concerned with citizenship. [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…]
We have asked them to report on the situation in the various countries and to see whether there is a possibility that people can renounce their former citizenship - this could be a way of doing it, or, if not. [More…]
So if a person becomes a member of the ALP in Victoria he is not entitled, in the view of honourable senators opposite, to Australian citizenship. [More…]
I recall that at a conference of the Australian Labor Party some 2 years ago I moved that the law be altered in this respect and that no person should be deprived of citizenship or liable to deportation - 1 think the words were - except for substantial fraud in the application for citizenship. [More…]
That would involve a fraudulent citizenship grant. [More…]
But, leaving that case aside, all citizens should be treated on exactly the same basis and no distinction should be drawn between those who are citizens by birth and those who are citizens by naturalisation or citizenship application. [More…]
There was to be one family, one citizenship and one nation. [More…]
The point I want to make is this: I saw some of the crocodile tears expressed by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) about the rights of migrants and I wondered whether he had referred back to speeches such as those I made in the past 5 years in which I begged the then Government to change the Crimes Act in order to avoid discrimination against people who had acquired Australian citizenship not having been born in Australia. [More…]
Senator Murphy had a tough decision to make and I say, not only to the Senate but also to the people outside - whether they be native-born Australians or people who have acquired Australian citizenship by adoption - that we have a system of priorities of safety for the overseas visitor and later remove discriminating provisions of the Crimes Act which were directed at the ethnic component of our population. [More…]
I have known a number of people who were given adverse reports by ASIO but when I, and no doubt other senators too, took up their cases, even on a number of occasions under nonLabor Ministers for Immigration, we were suddenly proved correct and citizenship granted. [More…]
I say that because I know people who were grossly victimised when they applied for naturalisation and who, when we protested, were granted citizenship - and that ASIO then approached them and asked them whether they would serve in certain listening post capacities. [More…]
When they reach the stage of acceptability for Australian citizenship - unless they obtain it by fraud or false statements - they will be secure. [More…]
I look forward in the not far distant future to the time when the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Murphy, will be introducing amendments to the Crimes Act which will meet a situation in which many post-war migrants had reservations about receiving second class citizenship in Australia. [More…]
He says that when he went to the Yugoslav Embassy for the purpose of giving up his Yugoslav citizenship he was interviewed by a Mr Lazic. [More…]
We are entering into negotiations and are having further talks with the Yugoslav Government about this very difficult question concerning those countries in the world, one of which is Yugoslavia, that recognise dual citizenship. [More…]
The present situation is that our Ambassador is having talks with the authorities in Yugoslavia concerning this vexed question of dual citizenship. [More…]
A problem has arisen regarding the Yugoslav Government’s attitude to dual citizenship. [More…]
The Prime Minister has ordered that special talks be held to try to reach the position where the situation in Yugoslavia regarding dual citizenship is exactly the same as that in any other 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 1,250 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 Acf 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 plain fact is that the discriminatory provisions of the Crimes Act about deportation are still included in that legislation and they affect people who have acquired Australian citizenship. [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…]
They came here as Yugoslavs and they acquired Australian citizenship. [More…]
In essence, the committee is to inquire, first into whether the civil rights of a number of Australians, specifically migrants - and, more specifically, people of Croatian origin - are being infringed; secondly, whether there is any intimidation against any such Australians from any source, specifically from agents or officers of the Yugoslav Government, whether those persons be intelligence agents or secret police of that government, or from some other source; thirdly, to inquire into the circumstances of the visit by the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) to the offices of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation in March; and fourthly to look virtually at the problems that now arise of dual citizenship of migrants and the threat to their lives and to their freedom when they travel abroad. [More…]
The Government is taking some legal action, I believe, to look at this question of dual citizenship; so I do not dilate on that. [More…]
Amongst those depositions we find that one, Tony Bitunjac, said: 1 am Croatian by birth and have applied for and been granted Australian citizenship but 1 forgot to attend the ceremony. [More…]
What steps, if any, are being taken by the Australian Government to protect Australian citizens overseas and to have Australian citizenship recognised by such governments as that in Yugoslavia? [More…]
Three who possessed dual Australian/Yugoslav citizenship (Horvat, Keskic and Vlasnovic) were executed on 17th March 1973. [More…]
I 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 ali 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 1949 and the use of terminology which has given many Australian 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…]
Lt 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 Creek citizen remains, a Greek under Greek law, and an American ceases to be an America^ tinder American law, upon their becoming Australians, quite irrespective of whether they say at our citizenship ceremonies tha* they renounce Greek or American citizenship And so I put it to honourable senators nhat it is both the humane and the sane course to drop these distressing and Ineffectual words about renunciation. [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 pave 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…]
It is also proposed administratively to replace the term ‘Naturalisation ceremony’ with ‘citizenship ceremony’. [More…]
The word ‘naturalisation’ is one which does nol come easily to the tongue, lt 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…]
But once we confer the citizenship of this country upon a person who has come to this country as an immigrant and who has resided in this country we owe to that person 2 things: We owe him the obligation, firstly, that we will treat him as an equal of persons who are natural-born Australians and subject him to no penalties, prohibitions or disabilities which are different from those to which the natural-born citizens are subjected; and, secondly, that we will not deport him to a country where he may be dealt with not on the basis of his conduct but simply on the basis of his political opinions. [More…]
I recall attending a Citizenship Convention some 8 years ago. [More…]
Following on from the Oppermann era when the citizenship convention and the ethnic groups were crying out. [More…]
One fellow said: ‘Yes, I sought citizenship, but I never had time to go around for my citizenship ceremony’. [More…]
1 sympathise with the present Minister for Immigration when 1 think of the people who were denied citizenship. [More…]
Simply because this man subscribed to a variety of papers from the far left and to the far right in Europe, he was denied citizenship. [More…]
Going back as far as that and even beyond, I always have thought that the paramountcy of the certificate of naturalisation conferring citizenship should be acknowledged at all times and in all circumstances. [More…]
I have always thought that citizenship should be in that category. [More…]
It is interesting that in more recent days and rather more dramatic circumstances the Senate has adverted to the citizenship of new Australians in relation to what we will call the ‘Croatian situation’. [More…]
In other words, we adverted to the fact that although migrants may obtain Australian citizenship, if they have come from certain countries they still retain the nationality and citizenship of that country. [More…]
Tonight we are expressing our concern about another area of citizenship. [More…]
It is interesting to recall that it is only in more recent years that the status of Australian citizenship has received recognition. [More…]
Australian citizenship has come in the recent lifetime of most honourable senators. [More…]
Migrants value and seek the privilege of citizenship. [More…]
Additionally, honourable senators know the problem concerning dual citizenship on which we have been working. [More…]
Of course, dual citizenship does not apply in this case merely between Yugoslavia and Australia; it applies between Yugoslavia and every other country. [More…]
The Bill before the Senate is a Bill to amend the Australian Citizenship Act. [More…]
Citizenship is frequently defined as being a status of relationship between a person and a political society by which the former owes allegiance and the latter owes protection. [More…]
So when a Bill comes before the Senate to deal with this important subject of citizenship it is one of some significance and some importance. [More…]
This Bill to amend the Australian Citizenship Act contains 5 legislative proposals. [More…]
Firstly, it seeks to establish a uniform qualifying period for citizenship. [More…]
Fourthly, it proposes a change in the term to describe citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
They are to be known as citizenship ceremonies instead of naturalisation ceremonies, a description with which most of us are familiar. [More…]
Finally, the age for citizenship is to be lowered to 18 years. [More…]
As I said, the Bill deals with citizenship and the word ‘citizen’ relates to ‘nation building’ and to ‘national’. [More…]
Australian communities need the support of these migrant citizens and I think it is also true to say that the migrant needs the support of being part of the community, and being part of the community through citizenship, because through citizenship he can obtain various supports that he may need from time to time. [More…]
So we are very much interested and involved in this citizenship. [More…]
One of our most important rights is without doubt citizenship. [More…]
As Australian born citizens we never think very much about it, for our citizenship has never been in danger and because of this fact we have never had to think about it. [More…]
Therefore it is appropriate that warnings are sounded from time to time that we should not take our citizenship for granted. [More…]
But with migrants and new settlers citizenship is of fundamental importance because these people for one reason or another have left their own countries and settled in Australia. [More…]
Citizenship has to be considered in all its importance, but before any new arrival changes his citizenship very many factors have to be taken into account. [More…]
All of us speak from experience and association in this field and we know that in deciding to accept Australian citizenship a migrant takes into account personal reasons, family reasons, employment situations; he looks at the geographical influences and he takes very strong cognisance of the state and political factors. [More…]
The terms ‘subject’ and ‘citizenship’ denote the same status when they are applied to countries which might be described as constitutional monarchies. [More…]
Not only has their contributions made a great difference to our citizenship but also through their own citizenship they have made a particular contribution to our general well being. [More…]
They have given us a new vision of what Australia might be and they have taught us many a lesson in concepts of freedom and I think they have taught us many a lesson in the concepts of citizenship. [More…]
When we discuss a measure of this kind we discuss it against the background of immigration and immigration policies, because immigration policies determine the number and the quality or style of people that come into Australia and therefore the numbers and style and quality of people are very much related to the whole matter of citizenship. [More…]
A policy which assumes that the total of the individual wishes of relatives and friends will always equal Australia’s needs is not a good policy but one, I think, which should be watched very carefully for it takes into account the style, quality and quantity of citizenship within this country. [More…]
The Council has through the years advised successive Ministers, and still advises the present Minister, in encouraging citizenship by recommending an enormous list of welfare and other services. [More…]
All these recommendations have been implemented over the years by previous administrations in relating to the welfare and the citizenship of migrants. [More…]
The Minister may call them task forces or by any other name, but through the years a great deal has been done by previous administrations for the welfare and citizenship of migrants. [More…]
For migrants from other countries the period has been 5 years, after which they seek citizenship through the processes of naturalisation. [More…]
So there has been every encouragement through the years for citizenship. [More…]
In the present Bill the provision relating to the 12 months period is repealed, and although there are clauses which allow for transition periods to take care of people who may want to make the adjustment in the immediate future, the ultimate fact is that Commonwealth citizens - ‘British people - have had the benefit of this 12 months period taken away from them and in due course they will have to wait 3 years before they can obtain their citizenship. [More…]
The only road to Australian citizenship is via 3 years residency and then a naturalisation or citizenship ceremony. [More…]
I regret that this Bill abolishes the preferment formerly accorded to British subjects on the granting of Australian citizenship and that it places them on the same footing as citizens of any other nation. [More…]
I am indeed surprised because I think it will hinder immigration and what is more, I think it will hinder citizenship. [More…]
If this percentage is maintained and British migrants want to embrace Australian citizenship, it should oe pointed out that they will have to go through the steps of naturalisation. [More…]
There is a serious clause in the Bill which in my view cuts right across the principle of citizenship. [More…]
The Minister has referred to confusion and he stated that this clause is to prevent confusion among candidates for Australian citizenship who find it difficult to understand why they should swear allegiance to the monarch of another country. [More…]
As all honourable senators know, Australian citizens cannot retain Australian nationality after they have voluntarily acquired citizenship or nationality in another country. [More…]
But I do agree that the term ‘citizenship ceremony’ has more meaning to it and, as such, I approve of the change. [More…]
I hope that it has more meaning for those of us who witness these citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
I hope that it will have meaning for those presiding officers who conduct citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
Every one of us would join in paying tribute to the heads of local government organisations, community leaders, members of good neighbour councils and those who go to so much care and trouble to ensure that citizenship ceremonies are well and properly con* ducted and do mean something to the new citizen. [More…]
Those are the factors which make for happy, contented citizenship and which provide for the integration of new citizens into the Australian community. [More…]
We warn the Government that indifference to the areas to which I have referred not only will deprive us of citizens but also will not improve the quality of our citizenship. [More…]
This Bill sets out the manner in which migrants to Australia may become part and parcel of our nation through attaining citizenship. [More…]
I for one cannot see why British citizens cannot obtain Australian citizenship earlier than 3 years after their arrival here. [More…]
The responsibility of Australian citizenship should not be taken lightly. [More…]
I believe that, when people from other countries seek to become citizens <-f this nation, they too should feel just as much pride in their new citizenship as we do. [More…]
Citizenship entails responsibilities as well as the benefits which may accrue from it. [More…]
It seems to me that by deleting the section of the Act relating to renunciation of a migrant’s previous nationality, this Bill will give to those people most of the rights of Australian citizenship without p’acing on them the responsibilities of that citizenship. [More…]
Consequently, it may be to the disadvantage of such people to retain their former citizenship. [More…]
It would be completely impossible even upon marriage for an Australian such as myself, were I free to do so, to marry a Japanese woman to gain Japanese citizenship. [More…]
Australia extends citizenship to all those who marry Australian citizens. [More…]
We allow them to share not only our personal lives, but also the national life of this country by granting to them, if there is no real impediment, naturalisation and citizenship of Australia. [More…]
These things are expressed, of course, in this Australian Citizenship Bill. [More…]
We are trying to make suggestions which will help the Government of today and those who formed the Government of yesterday to see this Bill through similar eyes because we feel that in tackling a re-organisation of legislation such as this it would be a constructive move to bring it up to date, to make it more efficient and to make it easier to offer citizenship to the new people of Australia - a citizenship which we all want them to have. [More…]
We want them to want to have citizenship, too. [More…]
This Bill relates back to the Australian Citizenship Act introduced in 1949 and the Bill which was introduced in 1969. [More…]
People are much more mature than they used to be in considering the difference between Australian citizenship and being a British subject. [More…]
Mr Carr the British Minister responsible for United Kingdom citizenship status in relation to Britain’s entry into the European Common Market indicated that even with the best intentions in the world the old links with Australia and New Zealand, and probably to a lesser degree Canada, were not quite the same. [More…]
I think that now that we are streamlining the law in respect of citizenship the next logical step is to take people on trust. [More…]
A person may have inhibitions about obtaining Australian citizenship. [More…]
I simply remind my friend Senator Mulvihill, who has just resumed his seat, that the Australian Citizenship Bill has nothing whatever to do with national anthems. [More…]
There is nothing new in the requirements for citizenship which the Minister set out. [More…]
I object - I will not take this belief to the, point of voting accordingly - that the British migrant should have to wait 3 years, exactly the same length of time as a migrant from any other country, before he is granted citizenship. [More…]
I cannot understand the Minister’s statement that the word ‘naturalisation’ is more difficult to pronounce than the word ‘citizenship’. [More…]
Apart from the fact that I do not think it has any legal significance whatever in the country of origin, there must be a certain amount of heartburn and a certain amount of emotional turmoil when, at a citizenship ceremony, this phrase has to be repeated by the applicant for citizenship. [More…]
As we know from the arguments which we have had about dual citizenship in Greece, Yugoslavia and the United States, we are not able, by any law which this Parliament passes, to remove the legal effectiveness of laws enacted by a person’s country of origin when that person returns to the jurisdiction of his country of origin. [More…]
I think that this Government has done more to disgrace the idea of Australian citizenship among citizens of the free world than we thought possible in the palmy days prior to 2 December. [More…]
I think that most, if not all members of the Parliament, will agree that the Government’s intention to do away with discrimination in regard to citizenship is a very laudable objective. [More…]
The simple fact is, as I pointed out in my second reading speech, that British citizenship, as we know it in this country, relates to no fewer than 31 different countries. [More…]
Therefore, how Senator Maunsell can suggest that British citizens coming from 31 different countries should receive preferential treatment in regard to citizenship in Australia over and above people coming to Australia from other countries who also want Australian citizenship is beyond me. [More…]
I am given to speculate on what symbol would be placed on a certificate of citizenship. [More…]
Australian Citizenship Bill 2329 a monarch and which provides for succession, I think that that is the course that should be followed. [More…]
On the other hand the form of words proposed by the amendment are the very basis of citizenship and the declaration of the head of state. [More…]
By having the declaration on our statute books that the Queen is our head of state according to the 5 June 1973 style and title which the Government is proposing, and by including the reference to renunciation, our migrant citizens will be protected and we will guard against situations in which migrants might use their citizenship unscrupulously. [More…]
As I mentioned at the second-reading stage of the Bill, other countries, including New Zealand and the United Kingdom, do not expect people acquiring their citizenship to renounce their countries of origin or their relationships to those countries. [More…]
In 1949 when he amended the then Citizenship Act so that it meant something in relation to Australian passports, the counterparts of the present Opposition were then just as vigorous in implying that it was semi-treasonable. [More…]
At present the Citizenship Act 1948-1969 provides in Schedule 2 for the following form of Oath of Allegiance to be taken by candidates for Australian citizenship: [More…]
The Bill to amend the Citizenship Act provides in Schedule 2 that the Oath of Allegiance shall be in the following form: [More…]
Firstly, candidates for citizenship will no longer be required to renounce their former allegiances. [More…]
People who have come to Australia for settlement have continued to live and remain in Australia but have not taken out Australian citizenship. [More…]
The Govern ment believes that one of the reasons why there remain in Australia so many people who have not yet taken out Australian citizenship is this clause requiring them to renounce other allegiance. [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…]
The act of enrolling and voting is generally regarded throughout the world as an indication of citizenship. [More…]
Indeed, it is regarded so strongly in some countries that I understand one could forfeit one’s citizenship if one is shown to have enrolled or voted in another country. [More…]
We saw in the Senate yesterday, in the Australian Citizenship Bill, a deliberate attempt by the Labor Party to take out of the oath of allegiance any reference to the fact that there is a monarchy or that we have a Queen of Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration: Is it a fact that the Minister, speaking in the Senate on 17 May, said that the Government’s proposal for the common period of residence before Australian citizenship could be sought would be 3 years? [More…]
Will the Minister explain to the Senate, the statement made yesterday by the Minister for Immigration that the waiting period for Australian citizenship for all nationalities had been reduced to one year? [More…]
As this statement appears to be at variance with the Government’s policy and that accepted by the Parliament, will the Minister advise what is the actual present position regarding the citizenship waiting time? [More…]
The fact released this morning that 2 of the Croatians on trial in Belgrade resided in Australia for 8 years and did not seek Australian citizenship destroys the credibility of those people who claim that we have a bounden duty to intervene on their behalf. [More…]
We have stood at citizenship ceremonies and been aware of the emotional circumstances related to the words of renunciation. [More…]
It points out in conjunction with section 1 7 of the Australian Citizenship Act that Australia does not favour dual citizenship. [More…]
The Opposition recognises the problems associated with dual citizenship. [More…]
The inclusion of these words within the oath of allegiance opens up the whole unanswered area of what determines a person’s citizenship. [More…]
Citizenship is not only a matter for new citizens or migrants; it is a matter for Australians also and the declaration made in their presence should remind them that they should never take citizenship for granted. [More…]
The renunciation segment of the ceremony reminds Australian citizens that citizenship is costly and must be taken very seriously. [More…]
Another argument in favour of retention also relates to section 1 7 of the Australian Citizenship Act. [More…]
The inclusion of the renunciation says to all Australian citizens that once voluntarily accepting a new citizenship they have lost their Australian citizenship. [More…]
The present Australian position shows the seriousness with which Australia considers and expects any citizen to treat Australian citizenship. [More…]
Citizenship in an age of great mobility and expanding travel opportunities, with greater movements of population, calls for a very clearly denned point of view as far as this country is concerned. [More…]
The United States of America, for example, which more than any other country on earth has prospered from large scale migration over a long period of years, which has been consistently held up as an example of a country which has developed from migration and which has benefited from large numbers of citizens who have come into its citizen strength from a wide variety of countries, makes it perfectly clear what it expects its citizens to do when they embrace United States citizenship. [More…]
A person who has petitioned Tor naturalisation in the United States of America shall in order to be and before being admitted to citizenship, take in open court an oath. [More…]
They have also known the benefit of responsible citizenship which has been assumed by a great number of migrants. [More…]
If citizenship has any value at all it must be taken not lightly but responsibly, and the words that we put forward today provide for that responsibility to be continued. [More…]
I come to the point that many people have reservations about the renunciation of their previous citizenship. [More…]
I know people in the Dutch community who suffered not merely nostalgia but the much deeper feeling that to obtain Australian citizenship they had to deplore, more or less in a general sense, that at one time they had owed allegiance to the Dutch royal family and to the then Queen Wilhelmina and all that sort of thing. [More…]
The Royal Style and Titles Bill 1973 and the Australian Citizenship Bill 1973 both propose to omit inter alia from the Queen’s Titles reference to the United Kingdom. [More…]
It is also used in the oaths and affirmations of allegiance in the Second and Third Schedules to the former Citizenship Act. [More…]
Whilst that common law background may not be the background of persons who have come to Australia in recent years, nevertheless it is one of the bases upon which our citizenship is founded. [More…]
I welcome persons who come to Australia and I am hopeful that they will become Australian citizens but I believe that acceptance of Australian citizenship carries with it some fundamental obligations. [More…]
I was interested to hear what Senator Davidson said about the practice in the United States of America where, quite clearly, there is a positive acceptance of American citizenship and a complete renunciation of all other allegiances. [More…]
But America has stood resolute in its insistence that there should be both the affirmative and the positive side of the act of citizenship. [More…]
Of course dual nationality is something which an act of renunciation on the part of a person taking out Australian citizenship will not in any way overcome. [More…]
If Italy, Greece or Yugoslavia- to mention 3 countries in relation to which dual nationality problems have arisenasserts a claim or seeks to exact an obligation from one of the native born citizens of those countries then the fact that those persons have become Australian citizens and have formally renounced the citizenship of their country of birth will not persuade those countries to take any other attitude. [More…]
I think that Australian citizenship requires something more from the Government of Australia than an attitude which I believe is as weak as that. [More…]
I believe, notwithstanding that there are some migrant Australians who may object to the fact that they have to renounce an allegiance, that we should insist and continue to insist that migrants accept Australian citizenship and renounce all other citizenships, and that that be the test and measure of becoming an Australian citizen. [More…]
But in terms of formal constitutional relationships and the obligations which the law imposes, I think we should insist, as far as we are able, upon Australian citizenship. [More…]
As I was saying, this matter is also the subject of associated initiatives by the Minister for Immigration, who, I would like to place on record, is on behalf of the Government sparing no effort in ensuring as a first step that migrants who acquire Australian citizenship and who are still regarded by their former homeland as being its citizens are able, where the law of that country so provides, to divest themselves of that citizenship if they so wish. [More…]
-Prior to the suspension of the sitting I had dealt with the point made by Senator Greenwood about dual citizenship, and I was dealing with the point made by Senator Byrne about the constitutional doubt on the validity of the proposed oath of allegiance. [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…]
During the debate on the Citizenship Bill I indicated, on behalf of the Government and the Minister for Immigration, that the Government was not opposed to promising a review of the oath of allegiance contained in the Citizenship Bill after the new royal style and titles had been introduced. [More…]
Importantly, so far as this Government is concerned, the change will end the confusion in terminology in the oath of allegiance which has been permitted to continue since the Citizenship Act of 1 948 and will identify formally prospective citizens from other Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth countries with Australia. [More…]
But while the Government believes that it has support among the community for the form of the oath of allegiance to the Australian Constitution put forward in the Citizenship Bill, we have accepted the intent of the Senate amendment that was moved by Senator Davidson, I think, in June last in the spirit of compromise. [More…]
With the proposed change in the royal style and titles giving specific recognition 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 Australian Citizenship Bill through the Parliament the substantive provision, namely clause 2(3) of the Australian Citizenship Bill of 1973 which includes the proposed new oath of allegiance, would come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation which will be after the Queen has proclaimed her royal style and titles. [More…]
It was specifically reported in the survey that a major reason why people who were eligible were not applying for citizenship was: [More…]
Specific objection 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 and swear allegiance to the English monarch. [More…]
In January 1973 a committee on citizenship of the Immigration Advisory [More…]
A recent study of the citizenship legislation of 19 Commonwealth countries that was made by the Department of Immigration on behalf of the Minister revealed that 1 7 of those Commonwealth countries require an oath of allegiance but of that number only four require renunciation of other allegiance. [More…]
As long ago as 1963- a decade ago- the then committee on naturalisation of the Immigration Advisory Council recommended the same action as the citizenship committee recommended in January 1973: [More…]
I went to some pains to point out on the subject of renunciation the fact that citizenship within our community was a matter of some considerable seriousness and therefore it required a definite stand to be taken. [More…]
Many of these one million people have not become naturalised Australian citizens because, whatever be the reason- emotional or for some other reasonthey have not been able to say publicly that they renounce the citizenship of their original homeland. [More…]
We believe that by the removal of that renunciation principle, which was a unanimous recommendation of the citizenship committee to the Minister in January of this year, we are acting on the unanimous advice of that committee and on the advice of the Department in accordance with the wishes of the Australian people and in accordance with the wishes of many people who would become naturalised Australian citizens but for the fact that they have to renounce the citizenship of their original homeland. [More…]
We still maintainand the Citizenship Convention agreed with this- an interest and try to develop an interest in the cultures and traditions of the country of origin. [More…]
This was manifested last night in relation to the Australian Citizenship Bill. [More…]
Solzhenitsyn points out that citizenship in Russia is not an inalienable right for every human being born on its soil. [More…]
Last year when there was a song and dance about the shortage of fruit pickers in the Riverland district, I had a talk with certain people in that area when I attended a citizenship ceremony there. [More…]
Having listened to the debate on the Australian Citizenship Bill about our link with Britain I wonder what role Senator McManus and his party would have taken if they had been around at the time of the tests. [More…]
The design section of my Department was asked recently to redesign the Australian certificate of citizenship. [More…]
When they left the country they were deprived of their citizenship and so prevented from returning. [More…]
1 ) The Citizenship Act 1 948- 1 969 provides for the grant of Australian Citizenship by one of three processes; naturalisation, in the case of aliens, and notification or registration in the case of Commonwealth citizens. [More…]
Although the statistics for conferral of citizenship by naturalisation have been recorded on a monthly basis, until the beginning of 1973 the figure for notification and registration have been prepared on a six monthly basis only. [More…]
The first consists of making it easy for them to travel; when abroad, they learn that they have been deprived of their Soviet citizenship. [More…]
I quote him on citizenship: [More…]
Citizenship in our country is not an inalienable natural right for every human being born on its soil. [More…]
All of these proposals are governed by the fact that the people affected have Australian citizenship, and those departments are not geared to give special rights in the areas of greatest need. [More…]
Australian citizenship. [More…]
Consequently I feel that a formation of such a committee would be a step backwards, indicative of segregation and allocating second class citizenship to Aboriginal people. [More…]
Being a pragmatist, I point out to the Minister that within 3 to 5 years citizenship problems could arise from conflicts as to status in the British work force between people from the European Common Market countries going in and out of Britain and Australians going over there. [More…]
I asked whether when he visited Chequers on a weekend the subject of better citizenship rights for European Common Market nationals than for Australians was discussed. [More…]
I refer to a question which I asked him, I think last week, concerning advertisements in the daily Press outlining the new citizenship laws. [More…]
On 4 December 1973, Senator Durack directed a question to me in my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration concerning new Australian citizenship laws and the advertisements appearing in newspapers throughout Australia concerning the application of those laws. [More…]
The advertisements to which the honourable senator refers are advertisements designed to attract the enquiries of people who are eligible for Australian citizenship but who have not yet applied. [More…]
The Minister for Services and Property has not indicated any attitude on these matters at all but it should be clearly understood that discriminations in the grant of Australian citizenship have been also as obnoxious, unjust and totally unacceptable to our country in 1973. [More…]
I refer to a so-called answer that I received yesterday from the Minister for Immigration to a question I had asked expressing some concern about advertisements in the Australian Press regarding the application of the new citizenship laws. [More…]
But it is not necessary for these people in the discharge of their electoral responsibilities to take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
My question arises from concern with the nature of the reply given yesterday by the Minister to a question asked by Senator Durack relating to advertisements inviting applications for citizenship. [More…]
Can the Minister give me some information on the position relating to the United Kingdom and Commonwealth country migrants as far as Australian citizenship is concerned? [More…]
Is it a fact that after a transitional period after 1 December, British subjects will be treated the same as aliens as far as applications for citizenship are concerned? [More…]
I suggest to the honourable senator that he would probably find most of the answers in the Australian Citizenship Bill 1973 that was introduced and debated at length in this chamber earlier this year and also in the second reading speech of the Minister at that time. [More…]
I cannot see how anybody can justify the position- I do not mention it only because it is fashionable but because it is something which has happened recently- where a man is not able to write and have books published in the country in which he lives and where he can have the citizenship of the country in which he was born cancelled, not by a court process but by executive action. [More…]
-But the problem is that when a person takes out Australian citizenshipand it applies to other countries as well- this does not mean that in the eyes of the country from which he came he has abandoned that country’s citizenship. [More…]
Under both this Bill and the Bill I introduced earlier, the basis of jurisdiction is citizenship or residence in Australia for one year immediately preceding the application for dissolution. [More…]
The Government is aware that, prior to the coup in Chile in September 1973, a number of nationals from other South American countries had moved to Chile and that some of these had been granted Chilean citizenship. [More…]
It is understood that some, though not necessarily the same individuals as were granted Chilean citizenship, were believed to have been involved in terrorist or guerilla activities in their home countries. [More…]
-That is what Senator McLaren would give them, second-class citizenship. [More…]
Attorney-General’s departments and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation in denying people their Australian citizenship, and if the Government proposed that some form of inquiry should be conducted, even in camera, would I be permitted to submit that documentary evidence at such an inquiry if it took place? [More…]
Western Australia: Before 1962 Aborigines with more than 25 per cent Aboriginal blood could not vote unless (s)he held a certificate of 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…]
The following table shows the citizenship of the 176 persons to whom reference was made in News Release No. [More…]
I should like to place on record the names of a few men who have given tremendous citizenship service in this country. [More…]
1 ) Does a portrait of Her Majesty the Queen no longer appear on a Certificate of Australian Citizenship; if so, what is the reason for its omission. [More…]
If Her Majesty the Queen is.now officially described as Queen.of Australia’ will the Minister have a portrait of Her Majesty reinstated on Certificate of Australian Citizenship. [More…]
1 ) It is correct that a portrait of Her Majesty the Queen no longer appears on the Certificate of Australian Citizenship. [More…]
I am informed that the decision was taken by the former Minister for Immigration when amendments to the Citizenship Act including the design of the certificate were under consideration in 1 973, on the grounds that the design of the new certificate should be such that it was distinctively Australian. [More…]
Firstly, will he immediately urge the Minister for Labor and Immigration to disregard the absurd Public Service Board directive on the virtual staff freeze existing in the citizenship section of the Department of Immigration in Sydney, where an efficient and dedicated staff is overwhelmed by massive citizenship applications, and make early additions to the staff engaged? [More…]
Secondly, will the Minister intervene at the request of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and myself to give a breathing space to all temporary Sydney Mail Branch officers whose permanency is in jeopardy due to delays in processing citizenship applications- delays which are epitomised in the Iskander case, the details of which he is already aware? [More…]
I have been to citizenship ceremonies and I have never heard Senator Davidson or people like him criticise the previous Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby. [More…]
And whereas the present Australian Government, by recognition de jure of the Soviet Union ‘s aggression and occupation of the independent States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, imposed on Australian Citizens of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian origin and on all their descendants a foreign citizenship of the aggressor country the USSR, [More…]
The abolition of this act forcing on the Australian Citizens a foreign citizenship, [More…]
The term ‘British subject’ is not defined 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 [More…]
And whereas the present Australian Government, by recognition de jure ofthe Soviet Union’s aggression and occupation of the independent States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, imposed on Australian citizens of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian origin and on all their descendants a foreign citizenship ofthe aggressor country the U.S.S.R. [More…]
The abolition.of this act forcing on the Australian citizens a foreign citizenship. [More…]
Can the PostmasterGeneral give me an up-to.date briefing on the position confronting the group of Sydney mail officers who are members of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and in respect of whom delays in the processing of citizenship applications can affect attainment of permanency in the Postmaster-General’s Department? [More…]
The second was naturalised on 15 November 1974 but has not yet produced his citizenship certificate to my Department. [More…]
In particular, I ask: What is the Government doing in relation to Mr Mavrinac who is a well respected South Australian and has held Australian citizenship for some 1 1 years? [More…]
If the argument were as to the language in which the oath of allegiance is being taken, I can imagine that there might be differences of opinion but I think that that particular argument was raised during the debate on the Citizenship Act last year and that that issue has been resolved. [More…]
1 ) Was former United Nations’ Control Commission officer in Vietnam and Hungarian national, Lieutenant Lajos Miko, granted permanent domicile or Australian citizenship. [More…]
If Lieutenant Miko was only granted permanent domicile, what form of screening will be applied to confirm that he is not a ‘double agent’ if he should seek Australian citizenship. [More…]
Is there a permanent register of person granted permanent domicile but not Australian citizenship; if so, how many persons are on the register. [More…]
Three years residence in Australia is a prerequisite for Australian citizenship so that Lajos Miko would not be eligible to apply until 1977. [More…]
Candidates must satisfy the Minister that they are fit and proper persons for Australian citizenship and normal enquiries would be made in this connection if Mr Miko should apply. [More…]
All persons entering Australia as migrants have permanent residence; only those who apply after three years residence may be granted Australian citizenship. [More…]
A record of persons granted Australian citizenship is maintained. [More…]
He was able to use his diplomatic skill not so long ago- it would have been easier had there been amalgamations, as he would agree- to help migrants in the postal services, where permanency depends on Australian citizenship. [More…]
I am not necessarily arguing that aspect, but the plain fact of the matter was that the union involved had to come to me and I had to go to the Minister to see whether appointments could be held up until in turn we went to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) to get the granting of citizenship accelerated. [More…]
I ask: Is it a fact that the young Russian violinist Ermolenko, who some time ago appealed for asylum in Australia, is now returning to Australia and applying for Australian citizenship? [More…]
If so, will the Government now grant citizenship to 2 Czechoslovakian seamen, Jaroslav Reinisch and Jan Janik, who appealed for asylum many months ago because they feared returning to their former country? [More…]
As everybody knows, it would be necessary for them to qualify in order to gain citizenship. [More…]
He applied for Australian citizenship in 1972 but a decision was made to defer the application until December 1974. [More…]
I believe that it reveals the hypocrisy of the Government and that it represents a denial of right to a citizen of Australia who is seeking Australian citizenship and who has not been given any reason, let alone any adequate reason, why he should be denied citizenship. [More…]
1 have checked on the dates, and it must have been on 5 May of that year when, on a television broadcast, the then Minister for Immigration stated that under a Labor Government nobody had been refused citizenship on political grounds. [More…]
Am informed that contrary to your statement last Sunday evening on TV there has been one case of refusal of citizenship on political grounds. [More…]
What is the reason for refusal of citizenship to John Dvorscek of 59 Manfred Avenue St Albans. [More…]
I also pointed out that naturally I was not aware of any reasons which might have been available to the Minister or to his Department which might have been relied upon by the Minister or his Department to explain why Mr Dvorscek had not been granted citizenship. [More…]
I stated that on the material available to me it appeared that he had been refused citizenship and had been given no reason for the refusal. [More…]
Mr Dvorscek believed that his citizenship application was denied on political grounds. [More…]
As the chain of events indicates, one still does not know why he has been refused citizenship. [More…]
I am writing in response to the representations you have made concerning the application for the grant of Australian citizenship lodged by Mr Ivaca (also known as John) Dvorscek of 59 Manfred Avenue, St Albans, Victoria. [More…]
A short reply was eventually forthcoming but no reason was given why Mr Dvorscek had been refused citizenship and no explanation was given why the delay had occurred. [More…]
1 seek again from you further information as to the reasons for the refusal of Australian citizenship. [More…]
I know, having heard the statement made, that your predecessor stated that the Whitlam Government did not refuse citizenship on political grounds. [More…]
I would appreciate some indication from you as to whether there is any reason why an Australian resident in the position of Mr Dvorscek- who has been in Australia, as I am informed, for fifteen years- should be refused citizenship. [More…]
I am writing again in reply to your letter 19 December 1974 concerning the application for the grant of Australian citizenship made by Mr Ivaca (also known as John) Dvorscek of 59 Manfred Avenue, St Albans. [More…]
You ask mc whether there has been any change in the policy of the Government not to refuse citizenship on political grounds. [More…]
The answer to your question is no; the political beliefs of an applicant for citizenship are not the grounds for refusal, and membership of or association with a lawful political party is not considered in itself a reason to deny citizenship to any applicant. [More…]
Mr Dvorscek’s application has been given the fullest consideration in the light of all the requirements of the Citizenship Act and I am unable to change my previous decision that it is not one for approval. [More…]
Your letter of 23 March reaffirming your refusal to grant Australian citizenship to Mr John Dvorscek is singularly uninformative. [More…]
Is it the plain fact that Mr Dvorscek is not to be granted citizenship and you are not prepared to say why? [More…]
I am concerned willi <>mI one individual, who is entitled to mme information that he has been given and who ought to have the right to know why his citizenship application has been refused, and on what valid ground. [More…]
I heard Mr Grassby saying that the Whitlam Government did not refuse citizenship on political grounds. [More…]
If so, will it explain why the gentleman about whom I am concerned has not been given his citizenship? [More…]
I did that deliberately, because, irrespective of what Party is in power I know that, regarding questions of security and citizenship, we can never get a perfect system. [More…]
If we are to argue this question of political background with regard to citizenship applications, let us be real about it. [More…]
Dealing with people who were refused citizenship on security grounds, or what was basically party politics, the fact is that I have successfully ventilated cases which included that of a Spaniard who had the temerity to stand with a placard outside the Spanish Embassy in Canberra and the cases of four or five Yugoslavs who, for Senator Greenwood’s information, had left the Communist Party in the 1950s. [More…]
Any government, whether it be acting through its Attorney-General or its Minister for Immigration, if there are people so imbued with oldworld hatreds that they are prepared to create these incidents at embassies, must be able to withdraw or deny citizenship. [More…]
1 told them to get out of my office or 1 would heave them out as I had no desire to handle such citizenship claims. [More…]
I am not saying, neither is Senator Bishop, that a Minister on occasions will not reject citizenship. [More…]
There may be cases where governments err but no government can give a blanket assurance that everybody will get citizenship. [More…]
He will say that he and his colleagues had second thoughts about some cases and gave citizenship to the people concerned. [More…]
This man had remained in a sort of citizenship limbo. [More…]
Within 48 hours of my asking for his file, justice was done and he had citizenship. [More…]
But there is an appeals system for those who seek citizenship in Canada and portions of the Canadian appeal structure may well be worth considering. [More…]
I say to Senator Greenwood that if the man he mentioned has been refused citizenship on political grounds, as he said, then the case ought to be reviewed and I will help him review it. [More…]
But it does not allow for people whose original homeland does not recognise their new citizenship and it would be unfair to debar them. [More…]
Each commission will be empowered to appoint officers under general conditions similar to those in the Public Service, with the exception that Australian citizenship will be an eligibility requirement rather than that of being a British subject. [More…]
The provision also is extremely restrictive in relation to migrants from the British Isles who, although they are British subjects, have not yet sought to take out and may not really intend to take out Australian citizenship in accordance with the laws that this Government has passed recently in that regard. [More…]
On 23 June 1967 an Australian passport with a currency of 5 years was issued by the Australian Embassy, Pretoria, to Mr O’Donnell, described by the Southern Rhodesian regime as its Secretary of External Affairs, after his claim to Australian citizenship was established (House of Representatives Hansard, 1 September 1970, page 822). [More…]
I instanced the case of Mr John Dvorseck who was Croatian by birth and who had applied for citizenship. [More…]
Notwithstanding some 1 5 years residence in this country that citizenship had been denied and there was no indication from the Minister as to the circumstances or the reasons why that application was denied. [More…]
The second factor has resulted in a decision to defer, until the Royal Commission has reported, the question of appeals under the Australian Citizenship Act, the Passports Act and section 14 of the Migration Act. [More…]
Citizenship Act [More…]
The fifth item on Senator Greenwood’s list is the Citizenship Act. [More…]
Refusals of citizenship may be based on security reports and the form of appeal in such cases is a matter that has been referred to the Hope Royal Commission. [More…]
The last item on the list was the Passports Act and the same considerations apply to this Act as to the Citizenship Act. [More…]
Would the Minister not agree that such training is an integral part of our national defence preparedness and that it has the other tangible national advantages of character moulding, self discipline and the development of a spirit of comradeship and citizenship. [More…]
provision for granting Australian citizenship to Cocos Islanders born there before 1955 and who did not apply for citizenship in the prescribed time, to be reviewed with a view to making it easier for the citizens of Cocos to take out such citizenship, if they wished to do so. [More…]
There are, of course, other matters which need attention- for example, aspects of education, labour conditions, citizenship, and so on. [More…]
The situation is that the acquisition of another nationality by a person with Yugoslav citizenship is not recognised under Yugoslav law unless that person formally renounces his Yugoslav citizenship and the renunciation has been formally accepted by the Yugoslav Government. [More…]
Against the background that many of us have laboured for years to get citizenship justice for people who have been given rather vague evaluations by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, I ask Senator James McClelland: Can the Senate have an assurance that the findings of Mr Justice Hope on national security operations, an objective to which many people, including myself, have contributed, will not be ignored in the fact of the appointment of a new and overdue ASIO chieftain? [More…]
In the administration of previous governments, as well as in this Government, I have been most concerned about our inability or our lack of will to deal with the matter of dual citizenship. [More…]
Earlier, when the United States of America was involved in ethnic problems with the vast waves of migrants entering the United States of America, it made it quite clear that when a migrant came to the United States of America, applied for citizenship and was granted that citizenship by swearing to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America, he had fulfilled the constitutional requirements of the United States of America to become an American citizen. [More…]
Party was in government, that is, that the Australian Government should assist in the protection of its citizens whether they have dual citizenship or not. [More…]
Although they may have taken out Australian citizenship, if they are in breach of those laws while they are here they are held responsible for that breach and can suffer for it when they go back. [More…]
I have insisted that when Australian embassies find that a person who has accepted Australian citizenship is in trouble they should go to their defence. [More…]
The embassies should give even greater assistance to those people than they would give to a person who holds single citizenship. [More…]
He does not suffer from this dual citizenship problem but he is in gaol. [More…]
There ought to be- I think the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee) has indicated this also- international conferences between those nations affected in an effort to solve the problem of dual citizenship. [More…]
In regard to the very difficult question of dual citizenship, we have made progress where the previous Government did not. [More…]
Australian Citizenship Bill 1973 Australian National Airlines Bill 1973 Cities Commission Bill 1973 Conciliation and Arbitration Bill 1973 [No. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labor and Immigration and relates to the current sizeable backlog of citizenship applications existing at the Sydney Immigration Office. [More…]
In May of this year the Public Service Board approved a total of 43 positions, the number asked for by the Department of Labor and Immigration to speed up the processing of immigration work, including citizenship applications. [More…]
I can recall speaking in the Senate on numerous occasions about people who were denied citizenship. [More…]
A vital function of government today is to legislate to bring all people together on a common citizenship basis, where capital and labour each have a part to play and, by working in partnership, create an atmosphere of well-being for the people generally. [More…]
I became aware of it because it was a boast of Mr Grassby as the then Minister for Immigration that the Labor Government, unlike- as he said- previous Governments, had never withheld passports or citizenship on political grounds. [More…]
Many of the people who do not buy it are men who did not serve in World War II but who got Australian citizenship in the 1954-59 period and were called up as national servicemen. [More…]
I am thinking of what happens with citizenship applications. [More…]
As honourable senators know, I told Mr Justice Hope at my in camera interview with him that I believed in the Canadian system of reviewing citizenship rejections whereby in a 9-man panel any five members constitute an appeals board, one-third of the members are legal people and another third are a blending of representatives of trade unions, manufacturers and other kindred groups. [More…]
I refer to the reported difficulties in the selection of the Australian Olympic team and the position of one of the swimming members who does not possess Australian citizenship. [More…]
Since Australian governments of all persuasions fund, to some degree, the cost of the Games, I assume the Minister agrees that all team members should have Australian citizenship. [More…]
In the light of previous difficulties of sporting teams, am I to assume that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is ready and willing to expedite citizenship for the team member involved? [More…]
Regarding the second question about citizenship of Mr Paul Nash- a matter which has been the subject of Press comment- I would say that if the report is correct Mr Nash might apply for Australian citizenship. [More…]
William Carter was exonerated because a Labor Premier probed a little further into his background, in defiance of what was an adverse ASIO report, and I would like to believe that we will emulate the situation in Canada- I intend no reflection necessarily on the future operations of ASIO- and provide for an appeals system in relation to citizenship. [More…]
I do know that with respect to citizenship applications all parties can make mistakes. [More…]
The judge, when sentencing Suljak, indicated that he should be dispatched from Australia at the end of his sentence because he neither sought nor possesses Australian citizenship? [More…]
It has been indicated in this debate, and it is true, that a growing number of private Asian students now come to Australia to get their education and then seek and obtain citizenship status in Australia. [More…]
Surely nobody wants to condemn some Australian citizens to a lifetime of secondclass citizenship. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Administrative Services been drawn to a report appearing in this morning’s Canberra Times newspaper under the dateline ‘Cocos Islands’ which states that the Minister, amongst other things, told Malay workers on the Clunies Ross estate that troublemakers could be in bother if they continued their actions and that he did not believe islanders would understand concepts of independence or citizenship? [More…]
Further, does the Minister seriously suggest that none of the Cocos-Malay community has any understanding of the concepts of independence or of citizenship? [More…]
Certainly I think they understand the problems of nationality and citizenship. [More…]
He was then reported as having told the Cocos Islands workers that trouble makers would be in bother if they continued their actions and that he did not believe that many islanders would understand the concepts of independence or citizenship. [More…]
How many students who leave school nowadays have a satisfactory citizenship education, if one can call it that? [More…]
1 remind the Senate that I testified before the inquiry into all aspects of security chaired by Mr Justice Hope and gave specific and documented evidence and suggestions to overcome certain Australian citizenship application injustices. [More…]
In view of the periodical reports that are coming out from Mr Justice Hope, according to the Press, can the Leader of the Government indicate whether this vexed question of a better appeal system on rejected citizenship applications has been finalised? [More…]
provision for granting Australian citizenship to Cocos Islanders born there before 1955 and who did not apply for citizenship in the prescribed rime, to be reviewed with a view to making it easier for the citizens of Cocos to take out such citizenship, if they wish to do so. [More…]
There has been a concomitant interest in gaining Australian citizenship by those who do not already possess it. [More…]
Those with Australian citizenship are entitled to enter Australia, subject only to prior counselling on employment and accommodation matters. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
The others are eligible to apply for Australian citizenship. [More…]
Some of those who made such accusations did not hold Australian citizenship and had not, for example, served in Korea. [More…]
If we are honest, we will admit that most people who were first denied citizenship have now been granted citizenship. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
Under the provisions of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 anyone born on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands since the islands became Australian territory on 23 November 1955 is an Austraian citizen by birth. [More…]
Therefore those people living on Christmas Island on what is known as limited entry arrangements would not meet the residential requirements, in normal circumstances, for Australian citizenship. [More…]
If we take 300 people a year from Christmas Island, in a little over 3 years more than 1000 qualified people who are entitled to come to Australia by citizenship rights will have left the island. [More…]
They talk patronisingly and say that they do not want Australian citizenship but want to retain their United States status. [More…]
There was some speculation as to whether there would be difficulties by bureaucrats the world over when people who had acquired Australian citizenship returned to the country of their birth. [More…]
Recently Senator Guilfoyle, in her capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), presented a list of statistics relating to the Australian Citizenship Act 1948. [More…]
Just for clarification of the terminology used, the nationality or citizenship of persons granted Australian citizenship was given. [More…]
One hundred and twenty seven of these people ultimately obtained citizenship. [More…]
I do not know whether these are people who have left some other country and have found sanctuary in Britain or Australia and then have declined to claim that they were of another country and we have taken them and have given them Australian citizenship. [More…]
I return to the other matter that I have hammered for a long while, and that is the capacity of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in Sydney to give citizenship applications a reasonably speedy processing. [More…]
I think the Minister would know that at present in the major groups of immigrantsthe Greeks, the Yugoslavs and the Italiansthere are probably more than 70 000 people who have not sought Australian citizenship. [More…]
Subsequently, when he was aged about 38 years and had had 10 years membership in the Builders Labourers Federation and 10 years membership in the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association, he applied for Australian citizenship, but he was confronted with the thorny question of his birth certificate. [More…]
It has taken a lot of cajoling to get them to apply for Australian citizenship. [More…]
When we are cajoling people to take out Australian citizenship we should make it easier for them to do so. [More…]
He does not want Australian citizenship in order to become a professor or a professional man. [More…]
I would like officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to give me an idea of whether, in view of staff ceilings, there is a 3 months delay in processing applications for citizenship. [More…]
In this time former Australian protected persons will hopefully have opted for New Guinean citizenship or Australian citizenship where eligible for the latter. [More…]
We will investigate the case and the lack of documentation will not necessarily debar the man from citizenship. [More…]
Another matter with regard to citizenship delay was referred to by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]
I am able to report that in the last 6 months we have been able to halve the delay in the granting of citizenship in most cases. [More…]
At this stage the delay varies from one month in Tasmania to approximately 3 months in Queensland and the Northern Territory, but efforts are made to deal with citizenship as expeditiously as possible. [More…]
The first is with regard to a Mr C, whom he identified, in Sydney who was asked to obtain a birth certificate from Italy in order that his citizenship application could proceed. [More…]
We demand instant release of all illegally imprisoned and exiled orthodox people and clergy and the return of their citizenship rights as stated in the U.S.S.R. Constitution including the right to follow and practice a religious belief and the freedom for leaving the U.S.S.R. travel overseas. [More…]
Against that background I draw the Minister’s attention to an article in today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph concerning an Australian citizen of Bega who is of Greek origin and who had an alarming experience in the Greek army notwithstanding his Australian citizenship. [More…]
Persons of Greek descent who become Australian citizens through a period of residence or are born in Australia do not normally lose their claim to Greek citizenship. [More…]
The thing that has been bugging me over the last 6 months or perhaps a little longer is how, at a time when we are not at war, we deal with citizenship applications and with applications for tourist visas from people who are known to have radical attitudes. [More…]
In the last 6 months I have been made aware of 2 British nationals who sought Australian citizenship. [More…]
Honourable senators would know from the brochure distributed by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, that until 30 November there was a transition period during which British citizens could obtain Australian citizenship within 12 months of coming to this country. [More…]
Let us be realistic about the situation: I would like to feel that any person, whether he be a member of the SPA or whether he be a member of another group, should not be denied citizenship because of his views. [More…]
If the Government were to say to me that henceforth any person in a fascist group on the far Left who is proved to have engaged in physical upheaval will not be granted citizenship, I would agree with that. [More…]
I would like to know, not necessarily from the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Senator Durack), whether we have reached the situation now of deciding that people who have a record in Europe of belonging to radical parties to the Left of the socialists will find it hard to be granted citizenship if they are already in this country or will be refused completely if they apply to come here on a tourist visa. [More…]
But I say to the Minister that the most important rights that a person has today are the right to hold a passport and the right to obtain citizenship. [More…]
I have had access to Ministers and know that there are people who have not been given citizenship. [More…]
When we were in government we would not give citizenship to them and the present Government would not give it to them. [More…]
With my colleague Senator James McClelland, who I think was then the Minister, I sat on a very prestigious committee where we were given some idea of the ebb and flow of people seeking citizenship. [More…]
The right to citizenship is basic. [More…]
First of all, Senator Mulvihill raised the question of what in future will be the policy of the Government in relation to the granting or refusal of passports, the removal of passports, or the granting or refusal of citizenship. [More…]
Assuming that he was sentenced to, say, 10 years gaol, would we then have the right to deport him to the country of his birth because he did not have Australian citizenship? [More…]
I felt heartened to think that I was seeing another generation of young Australians, both officers and other ranks, who were accepting the obligations of defence and citizenship of this country. [More…]
2 ) and ( 3 ) Irrespective of nationality or citizenship, social services age pensioners whose eligibility does not depend on reciprocal arrangements with other countries may continue to receive their basic pensions if they leave Australia. [More…]
In view of the lack of reference in the Queen’s Speech to the operations of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and the pending appointment of an ombudsman, and in view of the lack of a tribunal to which anybody who has been denied citizenship can appeal, do we have a solution from Mr Justice Hope, mindful of specific submissions from people like myself, to bridge this gap in our civil liberties code? [More…]
There are problems when people are denied citizenship because of an adverse report alleging some security risk as they have no avenue of appeal, apart from one to the Minister. [More…]
Many of them, of course, have become the very core of Australian citizenship today. [More…]
They have Portuguese citizenship and a considerable proportion of them speak Portuguese. [More…]
I have dealt with political refugees but I know that many Latin American women who have acquired Australian citizenship and gone back home and married there have been subjected to considerable delays. [More…]
-On 10 March 1977 (Hansard, page 77), Senator Mulvihill asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice asking whether the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security has made a recommendation for the establishment of a tribunal which can hear appeals from people who have been denied citizenship. [More…]
Did the Australian Government, more than a year ago, indicate that there was to be a period of amnesty for illegal immigrants in Australia to allow them to apply for permanent Australian citizenship. [More…]
1 ) An announcement was made on 26 January 1976, that applications for resident status (not citizenship) would be sympathetically considered with respect to those people who arrived in Australia as visitors prior to 31 December 1975, and who had overstayed their permits. [More…]
The following table shows the citizenship and sex of the persons who applied. [More…]
I have frequently asked whether the Government contemplated, following the Hope report, the establishment of a tribunal to consider rejected citizenship applications. [More…]
Did any of the reports make any reference to the establishment of a tribunal to review citizenship applications that have been rejected? [More…]
Perhaps at a later stage I will be able to get some idea of the backlog and the delay in processing citizenship applications in the capital cities. [More…]
In general terms I have been told that people get their citizenship over a span of three to six months. [More…]
Due to a mixup in his early teenage years, when his mother acquired citizenship, he discovered only recently that he did not have Australian citizenship. [More…]
I spoke to the Italian Consul-General in Sydney who rightly said to me: ‘Well, it is obvious that this man is seeking Australian citizenship. [More…]
I believe that he should have obtained citizenship. [More…]
He will get the same wages whether or not he receives citizenship. [More…]
These are only small matters but I know that on a citizenship day every honourable senator will exhort people to obtain citizenship. [More…]
There are large segments of the population who do not have citizenship. [More…]
I have mentioned already to the Senate the position of the FEDFA with regard to members seeking citizenship. [More…]
It was to let seamen continue their calling should they run foul of the country of their birth and we would give them papers, probably akin to United Nations citizenship, to enable them to carry on as seamen. [More…]
I want to take this opportunity to raise a couple of matters dealing with the citizenship aspect of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
Very effective citizenship ceremonies are performed monthly in the theatrette in the basement of the Australian Government Centre at Chifley Square. [More…]
I am referring to the absence of electoral cards for people so that when they have attained citizenship they can enroll. [More…]
Most of the people who take part in the citizenship ceremonies in central Sydney are people who have only loose ties with their own suburbs. [More…]
Their work may take them interstate and therefore they may not be able to wait for the normal trimmings associated with local council citizenship ceremonies. [More…]
I know that the officer who presides mentions the obligations of citizenship. [More…]
People have wanted to obtain citizenship quickly. [More…]
I have noticed a change in the hostility towards or unnecessary action taken against people of British or Irish nationality who are seeking Australian citizenship. [More…]
Many people born in the United Kingdom and in possession of a British passport, or for that matter people with an Irish Republic passport, are crossing the Rubicon and seeking Australian citizenship. [More…]
We know that although some persons go to their member of Parliament about an abnormal delay associated with citizenship the bulk of the people suffering such delays suffer silently. [More…]
I think even Senator Harradine would agree with me that that should not be an insuperable barrier to Australian citizenship. [More…]
I am not one of those people who accept that every person who says he has been denied citizenship is a knight in shining armour. [More…]
I know there are people who are involved in narcotics who certainly forfeit any right to Australian citizenship. [More…]
We are advised that it will be 3 months before the applicant will be called in for an interview and probably another 3 months before the actual ceremony if there is no impediment to citizenship. [More…]
Maybe the Minister can tell me, not tonight but shortly: Firstly, what staff in Sydney and Melbourne is involved in basic citizenship processing; secondly, what is the situation in central office; thirdly, are we receiving effective evaluations from the Commonwealth Police, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the State police? [More…]
I emphasise that I do not claim that everyone who is rejected for citizenship or even has his application for citizenship deferred, did not merit rejection or delay. [More…]
Since then they have a chip on their shoulder and might never seek citizenship again. [More…]
The difference is so minute that I do not think it should be an impediment to his eligibility for citizenship. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister for Social Security, who is now at the table, that we should send a special officer to that hospital within the next fortnight to confer citizenship on that man, who is battling for his life. [More…]
I am indebted to Senator Mulvihill for his comments and his constructive suggestions with regard to applications for citizenship. [More…]
This is a very interesting and valuable initiative by a school group engaged in legal studies or a citizenship, public affairs or some similar course. [More…]
1 ) With reference to a letter in the Sydney Morning Herald of 31 May 1977, headed ‘Suppressing the Hope reports’, concerning the delay in releasing the First and Second Reports of the Royal Commission into the Intelligence and Security Services of the Australian Government and the false evaluation of citizenship applications’ by Australian Security Intelligence Organization operatives, and in the light of certain happenings during the past 48 hours, does the Prime Minister agree that the Parliament is entitled to receive positive evidence that the organisation does not employ persons having a ‘Walter Mitty complex. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister agree that the Senate Select Committee on Croatian Terrorism should be reconstituted to hear evidence from the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization on the evaluation of citizenship applications by Organization operatives. [More…]
I also ask the Minister whether that procedure will be followed in relation to people who are denied citizenship. [More…]
The citizenship of the individual has no bearing on the matter. [More…]
Have they been or will they be given Australian citizenship? [More…]
Secondly, I refer the Minister to a partial promise he gave me some weeks ago that when the Prime Minister returned from Japan we might get a further edition of the Justice Hope report which was supposed to deal with an appeals tribunal for people denied citizenship, which could be related to ASIO evaluations. [More…]
An Australian passport may only be issued to an applicant on production of photographs, documentary evidence of citizenship and a signed statement by a person of standing that the applicant is the person he claims to be. [More…]
Any person from any of the 35 countries specified in section 7 of the Australian Citizenship Act who has the status of a [More…]
Persons who have Australian citizenship, whether acquired by birth in Australia, by descent from an Australian parent, or by grant, have the status of British subjects. [More…]
I suggest that anybody who is in any doubt as to his citizenship should ascertain the position from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, which administers the Australian Citizenship Act-not the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]
But its attitude towards other thingsnot schoolroom education, but standards and citizenship training- is indeed different. [More…]
As you are aware, any person from any of the 35 countries specified in section 7 of the Australian Citizenship Act who has the status of a British subject under the Act and who is otherwise qualified for enrolment under the Commonwealth Electoral Act, is eligible to be enrolled and to enrol. [More…]
Would you please ensure immediately that all divisional returning officers in your State are advised again of the listed eligible countries and direct them to take particular care with any enquiries relating to enrolment eligibility in terms of citizenship qualifications. [More…]
I mentioned that provisions would be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community and also that provision for granting Australian citizenship to Cocos Islanders born there before 1955 and who did not apply for citizenship in the prescribed time would be reviewed with a view to making it easier for the citizens of Cocos to take out such citizenship if they wished to do so. [More…]
Again, basically the same as the Labor statement of September 1975. appropriate means by which Australian citizenship can be provided to residents of the Territory who wish to take up Australian citizenship; [More…]
Quite a number of northern New South Wales meat workers who accepted their citizenship responsibilities and became blood donors were told by the blood transfusion service that they were not needed any more because of certain infections. [More…]
The broad details of Australia’s Cocos policy are as follows: a representative form of local government for the Cocos community to be established with the ultimate aim being the creation of a fully elected body; arrangements to be made allowing a transfer to the Cocos community of the village area ofHome Island; the replacement of token money by Australian currency; establishment of a new form of fund to assist the financing of community activities’, there should be freedom of movement and communication within the Territory; the improvement of education and health facilities and general upgrading of living standards; the framing and implementation of laws which could be clearly applied and enforced, taking into account local institutions and customs; the progressive introduction of a wages economy appropriate to Cocos conditions; appropriate means by which Australian citizenship can be provided to residents of the Territory who wish to take up Australian citizenship; the provision of financial assistance to Cocos Malays who wish to move from Cocos to Australia; and the ownership by the Australian Government of all land on which its facilities are located. [More…]
Clunies Ross estate provide for direct payment of appropriate sums of money in Australian currency to the Cocos community; a separate Cocos community fund be established for this purpose to be administered by and for the sole benefit of the community; the use of token money eventually be discontinued and replaced by Australian currency, taking into account the complexities involved; provision be made to issue local ordinances and establish better facilities for the administration of justice; health and education services be extended; rates of pay and employment conditions on Cocos aligned progressively with Australian practice and International Labour Organisation conventions; provisions be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community and provision for granting Australian citizenship to Cocos Islanders born there before 1955 who did not apply for citizenship in the prescribed time with a view to making it easier for the citizens of Cocos to take out such citizenship if they wished to do so. [More…]
Australian citizenship is normally available to permanent residents of Australia after residence of at least 3 years if they apply and satisfy the requirements of the Citizenship Act. [More…]
They have artificial citizenship in some country which they do not want and which the African people have rejected time and again whenever there has been any form of consultation with them. [More…]
I would like to believe that the Department of Immigration will go back through its records to the 1950s and pull out the files on everybody who has been denied citizenship and that it will write to those people in order to give them an opportunity for citizenship. [More…]
Their application for citizenship was rejected over something which was obviously a mistake. [More…]
I would like to believe that the Department of Immigration, with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, will go through every file and pull out the files on people who have been refused citizenship, that then some of these people will be given an opportunity to confront their accusers. [More…]
Some of them through the aid of the then Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Arthur Calwell, begrudingly were granted citizenship, but only after we had been to successive Liberal Ministers. [More…]
But others, because of their background, were never granted citizenship. [More…]
Of course, when these people came back to Canada they were granted citizenship. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that half a million migrants remain outside the electoral process because they have little information or access to information about citizenship and enrolment procedures? [More…]
What policy is the Government following in the Commonwealth Public Service and statutory corporations as regards the employment eligibility, all other qualifications being equal, of migrants who have resident status but have not qualified for Australian citizenship? [More…]
Policy on this matter has been under review, following the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration that nationality requirements for permanent appointment should be abolished except where Australian citizenship is prescribed for particular positions. [More…]
I think that, as part of citizenship courses, voting systems ought to be taught early. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that for 21 years of LiberalCountry Party Government, including some costly junketting at the Canberra Rex Hotel on occasions which were called ‘Citizenship Conventions’, nothing was done to make any innovation in the vital area of ethnic radio. [More…]
This was in 1969 when the most inept AttorneyGeneral we have ever had, the Honourable Nigel Bowen, was responsible for the amendments to the Citizenship Act. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware of the recent attempt to disrupt the operation of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs through the sudden dumping by some clever Dicks in the Labor Party of an extremely large number of applications for citizenship upon that Department’s Melbourne office? [More…]
It is certainly not the fault of this Government that these people were unable to acquire Australian citizenship in time for the next election. [More…]
As far as the citizenship ceremony held recently at Oakleigh is concerned, it has been reported to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs that some disruption took place during the proceedings caused by three persons who later identified themselves as members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
With regard to action to be taken, I remind the Senate that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs wrote to all parliamentarians in October this year, referring to the citizenship ceremonies and mentioning that such a ceremony is a formal legal process in which the whole community unites in welcoming new citizens to this country. [More…]
It is an occasion which impresses upon candidates the honour and dignity of citizenship and the responsibilities and privileges they take as Australian people. [More…]
It is unfortunate that a few have seen fit to abuse what seems to be a well established and understood tradition of assisting migrants in their citizenship following the ceremony. [More…]
What is their present citizenship, in the light of the Government’s decision to legitimise the brutal annexation of East Timor by Indonesia? [More…]
Bill Wood has, on a number of occasions, decided to do that which we and most Australians consider to be in the best tradition of citizenship in this country, that is to seek an endorsement to stand for Parliament and perhaps to be elected to Parliament. [More…]
In the first instance, can the Minister indicate what progress the Government or the Minister has made in the creation of an immigration appeals tribunal for people who have been denied citizenship and for the handling of kindred immigration decisions? [More…]
4 asked on 2 1 February regarding citizenship applications which have been delayed for periods longer than six months? [More…]
I am unable to advise the honourable senator in regard to an appeal tribunal for citizenship applications. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that difficulties are being experienced in extraditing Australian citizens who go to Israel and apply for and are granted Israeli citizenship? [More…]
Is it a fact that such a grant of Israeli citizenship places the applicant beyond the terms of the extradition treaty? [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 legislation of various documents, form wills and contracts to school certificates and driving licenses; 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, particularly 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 disease in foreign countries. [More…]
It would be an experimental township teaching citizenship to Aborigines. [More…]
It would be an experimental township teaching citizenship to aborigines- with aborigines, already trained in the white world as instructors. [More…]
Citizenship Convention [More…]
-On 10 May 1978 Senator Tehan asked the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs a question without notice concerning the extradition of fugitives from Israel and referred to the effect on extradition of a grant of Israeli citizenship. [More…]
His Christian citizenship was a reminder to us all that we have a common responsibility to our fellows. [More…]
What action has been taken to date to simplify the provision of Australian citizenship to all residents of Home Island in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands who wish to become Australian citizens, as announced by the Minister for Administrative Services on 16 June 1977. [More…]
It refers to figures given in the other place yesterday indicating that last year 1,600 people were denied Australian citizenship. [More…]
To which body could a person have recourse to have his citizenship denial reviewed? [More…]
Let those who can get on with the job, who are prepared to get on with the job and who have the responsibility of getting on with the job of looking after these people and bringing them to a state of citizenship in our community or whatever they want, do it without all the public attacks that are made from year to year, day after day. [More…]
It has been said before and, no doubt, will be said again during this debate that those Croats who have come to Australia and accepted Australian citizenship have made a contribution to our community. [More…]
There was the question of the imposition of a Crimes Act provision whereby, if one were not born in Australia one could, even if one had citizenship, be deponed upon conviction. [More…]
That letter deals with dual citizenship. [More…]
The Yugoslav regime has implemented the law by which every citizen of Yugoslavia is forced to retain his or her citizenship whether or not he or she obtains a citizenship of another country. [More…]
In practical terms, this means that it is impossible for an immigrant from Yugoslavia or his children to renounce their Yugoslav citizenship despite the fact that they become Australian citizens. [More…]
This formidable success in takeovers of groups and individuals by Yugoslav agents was made possible only because Yugoslavia can still claim citizenship over its dissidents. [More…]
The fact that it is impossible to obtain a cancellation of Yugoslav citizenship is well-illustrated by correspondence in Attachment (C) by Martin and Barker, Solicitors, who have been trying, since September 1 976, to find a way of cancelling citizenship for a family living in Canberra. [More…]
There are a number of individuals and families who would wish to get rid of their former Yugoslav citizenship should this be made possible. [More…]
They are also concerned that this very fact gives the Yugoslav Consular authorities in Australia power to haunt its dissidents beyond their terrestrial life, since this claim of citizenship extends beyond them to their children. [More…]
which lends itself to discrimination against those citizens who involuntarily bear dual citizenship. [More…]
One other point that was raised was in relation to the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that dealt with dual citizenship. [More…]
It may at first sight seem surprising that despite the passing of the Statute of Westminster, 193 1, and the creation of separate Australian citizenship by the British Nationality Act 1948 (Imp.) [More…]
I think that distinction is important, because I understand that Israel refuses to permit into Israel people who hold passports from countries of the Arab League and that again reflects a state of conflict between those Arab countries and Israel, It emphasises the distinction between discriminating on the basis of nationality or citizenship- that is the passport- and discrimination clearly based on the faith or religion of the person concerned. [More…]
Is it a fact that the translation sub-section of the citizenship branch of the Department of Immigraton and Ethnic Affairs has been directed to translate the Prime Minister’s weekly electorate talk for release to ethnic affairs groups? [More…]
I do not know whether the translation sub-section of the citizenship branch of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has been requested to do a translation as outlined by the honourable senator. [More…]
Additionally, under an arrangement with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Chief Australian Electoral Officer is writing personally to each person who acquires Australian citizenship, sending a copy of the pamphlet together with an electoral claim card and post free return envelope. [More…]
He referred to the 400,000 migrants who are eligible to seek citizenship but have not. [More…]
His theory was that in this tight employment position there is a certain hesitancy by some people to approach their bosses to lose a day or half a day to go to Sydney for a citizenship interview. [More…]
Has the number of employees in the citizenship section been cut back? [More…]
In the light of the assertion in the Hellenic Herald, have we sufficient staff to carry out Saturday morning interviews which would encourage the 400,000 migrants eligible to take Australian citizenship to do so? [More…]
The Minister for Productivity, Mr Macphee, might accept the idea because it would mean less time off by migrants in the work force to attend citizenship interviews from Monday to Friday. [More…]
The honourable senator also raised the matter of the citizenship of some 400,000 people and their need to have access to interviews at a time that would not interfere with their employment responsibility, not diminish productivity and so on. [More…]
It is hoped that this will allow other staff to continue with the rapid processing of citizenship applications. [More…]
Separate statistics of the number of persons denied Australian citizenship because of insufficient knowledge of the English language were not maintained before 1 July 1976. [More…]
Until then such statistics were included with the statistics of persons refused on the grounds of an inadequate knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship. [More…]
Applications refused on the grounds of an inadequate knowledge of the English language or of an inadequate knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges of Australian citizenship. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware of claims in La Fiamma of 6 November that migrants are not being advised of their right of appeal to the Federal Ombudsman if an application for citizenship is refused? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate what steps are taken by the Government to inform migrants of this right of appeal and of other matters related to gaining citizenship? [More…]
I refer the Minister to the statutory requirement that knowledge of the English language be a prerequisite for Australian citizenship. [More…]
I refer also to the fact that, in 1976-77, 427 persons were denied citizenship on this ground and that, in 1977-78, the number was 694. [More…]
In the recent Budget, quite apart from the breach of faith obvious in the Government’s action of abandoning twiceyearly indexation, the relegation of unemployed people without dependents- largely the single unemployed- to second-class citizenship so that they receive no indexation of benefits, which is a grossly discriminatory act as Senator Ryan said, the Government continually indulged in other acts of discrimination against the unemployed, particularly the young unemployed. [More…]
I have also expressed to them the very great admiration that the Government and the Australian people have for the reputation which is enjoyed by those people of Greek descent, those people who are Australians in their own right by birth in this country or by accepting Australian citizenship. [More…]
Every applicant for an Australian passport must produce documentary evidence of Austraiian citizenship. [More…]
Where the passport application is made in a name other than that appearing in the evidence of citizenship (which is usually in the form of a birth certificate), further evidence of the change of name must be produced, whether it has been changed by marriage, re-marriage or deed poll. [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 . [More…]
1 ) Census data relating to people born in the Seychelles or with Seychelles citizenship are not recorded separately. [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 ordinarly 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…]
As the Minister has said in his second reading speech, the purpose of that Bill is to introduce new citizenship provisions into the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act of 1955 in order to extend Australian citizenship to any person who is not already an Australian citizen, who was ordinarily resident on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands immediately before his transfer to Australia, who is now ordinarily resident in Australia or an external territory- that relates to the Territory of Christmas Island- and who wishes to take up Australian citizenship. [More…]
They have not yet become Australian citizens but they also will be eligible to take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
provision for granting Australian citizenship to Cocos Islanders born there before 1955 and who did not apply for citizenship in the prescribed time, to be reviewed with a view to making it easier for the citizens of Cocos to take out such citizenship, if they wished to do so. [More…]
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands Amendment Bill extends Australian citizenship entitlement to a variety of people, including those living on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and some people who had already transferred to Australia. [More…]
With the passage of these two Bills, and in view of the announcements that have been made by Mr Ellicott in relation not only to citizenship but also to the setting up of the co-operative, the establishment of a local government council and the provision on the Islands of the normal municipal services that we expect in our society such as electricity, sewerage and water reticulation a great prospect lies before this community. [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…]
The parents were British subjects and subsequently took out Australian citizenship. [More…]
No white person would tolerate this sort of second-class citizenship that is imposed by the Acts, the regulations and the by-laws. [More…]
In addition, there have been further cases since Belgrade of distinguished Soviet citizens who have been deprived of their citizenship while travelling abroad. [More…]
The question of the citizenship of the Bartons was the subject of consultation with the AttorneyGeneral’s Department and presumably the matter is still under consideration as a result of that. [More…]
What is the membership of the working party which was established, following the Minister’s discussions with Yugoslav Ministers on 11 December 1978 (Commonwealth Record, 11-13 December 1978, pages 1716 to 1717), to examine aspects of dual citizenship. [More…]
The working party to examine matters arising out of dual Australian/Yugoslav citizenship will involve senior representation from the Australian Embassy in Belgrade and representatives from the appropriate Yugoslav Ministries. [More…]
Mr Justice Hope clearly and unequivocally recommended that the new appeals procedure be retrospective in operation so that people who have been adversely affected in the past in their career opportunities, their citizenship applications and so on, should have the opportunity to get the validity of those proceedings in the past independently assessed and reviewed. [More…]
Of course, the Government will make much play of the establishment of the Security Appeals Tribunal, which will hear appeals from applicants for government jobs, citizenship, defence contracts and passports who have received adverse security assessments from ASIO. [More…]
The appeal provision also covers the areas of migration inquiry and citizenship. [More…]
In regard to a normal security assessment made in respect of employees of the Commonwealth, or a Commonwealth contractor, or in respect of a person for the purposes of the Migration Act, the Australian Citizenship Act or the Passports Act, if an assessment is made that is prejudicial to such a person’s interests then he must be given notice of his assessment. [More…]
There were people then seeking Australian citizenship. [More…]
Irrespective of whether the government of the day is socialist or non-socialist, when a person can go to a Minister and get citizenship for a person within 48 hours somebody must have something to hide. [More…]
I was able to get approval for citizenship for a couple of people of Yugoslav origin as quickly as that. [More…]
Apparently they had been denied citizenship because the authorities determining eligibility were still referring to Communist Party records of about 1951 or 1953. [More…]
His 16-year-old boy said: ‘We are happy that Dad has Australian citizenship but, if you do that, how do you think 1 will cop it at school?’ [More…]
I wrote to the Canadian Labour Congress, which is the equivalent of our Australian Council of Trade Unions, about its dealings with people of ethnic backgrounds on the matter of citizenship. [More…]
I know that then, as is the case under the present Government, there were people to whom I would not grant citizenship. [More…]
I could mention people in the Armenian community who do not have citizenship. [More…]
So, when he comes to this country, do we automatically say to him: ‘You will never get Australian citizenship ‘? [More…]
I would be quite happy if a judge were appointed as the President of the Tribunal, but I would like to believe that, because a person such as the person I have mentioned was a militant trade unionist, the Tribunal would not say to him: ‘That was the third strike in which you were involved; you will never get citizenship’. [More…]
Who knows, a Macedonian from Shepparton who is denied citizenship could appear before the Tribunal. [More…]
In November last year I asked the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), as Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs whether the translation sub-section of the citizenship branch of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs had been instructed to translate the Prime Minister’s weekly electorate talks for release to ethnic affairs groups. [More…]
Every year thousands of migrants to this country decide to adopt Australian citizenship. [More…]
I suppose the burden of the matter I raise tonight is that that renunciation, those solemn words, made at the behest of the Australian community during that ceremony of citizenship, are totally ineffectual, besides in many cases being emotionally very demanding on the new citizen. [More…]
Mr Grassby, the then Minister for Immigration, spoke of dual nationality being ‘one of the curses of citizenship around the world’. [More…]
I do get emotional about this matter because, as the examples I cited to the chamber illustrate, it has a very severe impact on many people who go through Australia’s citizenship ceremony and therefore expect the protection of the Australian Government when they travel abroad, particularly to their former homelands. [More…]
Thus, on moving from the USSR to Hungary, a person who obtains citizenship of Hungary would automatically lose his status as a Soviet national unless he expressed a choice of citizenship of the USSR. [More…]
Incidentally, I think that the term ‘dual nationality’ is a misnomer and that it should be ‘dual citizenship’. [More…]
I support particularly the recommendation which confirms the Australian belief, the Government belief, that every person should have one nationality only, with the exception that I would refer to citizenship and not nationality. [More…]
This principle is based on the Hague Convention of 1 930, and I believe that the Hague Convention realises, as do many governments, the problems created by dual citizenship. [More…]
I do not intend to delay the Senate too long on this issue, but I was delighted to read in the Hansard record of yesterday afternoon’s proceedings in the other place that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, in answer to a question regarding dual citizenship, had this to say: [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…]
I refer to nationality versus citizenship. [More…]
From my point of view, and I would say from the points of view of the majority of Continental people, there is a big difference between nationality and citizenship. [More…]
There can be a Scottish national of British citizenship. [More…]
There can be an Irish national of British citizenship. [More…]
There can be a Welsh national of British citizenship. [More…]
I strongly believe that we should make a clear distinction when referring to nationality or citizenship. [More…]
But I believe that in official papers and statements issued by the Government and by all public bodies the ethnic origin of a person should be referred to as the national origin and his citizenship should indicate that he is a citizen of a particular country, of a political state. [More…]
-I would say that nationality’ has a different connotation and a different meaning from ‘citizenship’. [More…]
I hope that the Government will take notice of the report’s recommendation in that regard and that it will take notice of the difference between the interpretation of the word ‘nationality’ and that of the word ‘citizenship’. [More…]
Although Australia has been a recipient of migrants over the years dating back to the early 1920’s the fact is that it was only when Attorney-General Lionel Murphy took action to take out the iniquitous clause in our Crimes Act that people did not have to go through all the pangs of being accepted for Australian citizenship or being deported on a double penalty. [More…]
I know that even now a treasonable past could nullify the actual citizenship ratification. [More…]
Being what we are, everyone tries to do a bit of bargaining, even in respect of citizenship. [More…]
The point I am making is that people who accept Australian citizenship should not be subject to overseas pressures. [More…]
Those boys and girls were given a period of time before they were forced to make a decision as to whether they wanted Soviet citizenship. [More…]
Latin American countries, whether Left or Right, are not over-keen about non-nationals from overseas acquiring their citizenship. [More…]
In fact they put a lot of obstacles in the way of people wanting citizenship. [More…]
I think the divorce laws and citizenship laws of Latin American countries are very difficult to surmount. [More…]
The girl I am talking about came to Australia and applied for Australian citizenship. [More…]
I can assure honourable senators that the citizenship section of the Department of Immigration in Sydney had to perform mental somersaults to determine her jumping off place. [More…]
Some people obtained Australian citizenship so that they could travel overseas on Australian passports for activities that could be hardly legal. [More…]
As far as Yugoslavia is concerned, successive governments have had to deny people whose motives they thought were not the best the right to citizenship. [More…]
I think the legislation is an attempt by Andrew Peacock to get reserve power to deny people citizenship or at least the issue of passports because they believe by having Australian citizenship they can have a bit each way. [More…]
We talk about the desire to get Australian citizenship. [More…]
There was a time at the beginning of the drive against narcotics when it was suggested to a number of Portuguese migrants, who did not have Australian citizenship but who were permanent residents, that they had better leave the country because of their involvement in narcotics. [More…]
I would just like to feel that the other side of the coin is taken into account because more and more people are using Australian citizenship and the value of an Australian passport to further their activities in white collar crime. [More…]
The Yugoslav regime has implemented the law by which every citizen of Yugoslavia is forced to retain his or her citizenship whether or not he or she obtains a citizenship of another country. [More…]
In practical terms, this means that it is impossible for an immigrant from Yugoslavia or his children to renounce their Yugoslav citizenship despite the fact that they become Australian citizens. [More…]
They are also concerned that this very fact gives the Yugoslav Consular authorities in Australia power to haunt its dissidents beyond their terrestrial life, since this claim of citizenship extends beyond them to their children. [More…]
Concern is also expressed over Article 44 of the Constitution which lends itself to discrimination against those citizens who involuntarily bear dual citizenship. [More…]
I think that is the point that Senator Lajovic stressed- the question of nationality and citizenship. [More…]
Anyone who becomes a member of this Parliament very soon runs into the distress and difficulties caused to many citizens by this very real problem of dual nationality or, as Senator Lajovic would call it, dual citizenship. [More…]
You, Mr Acting Deputy President, and I- I understand- are both eligible for Irish citizenship should we desire it. [More…]
We in this country of course have not always had a pure attitude to citizenship. [More…]
These people were treated as second class citizens, although they had been accepted as British citizens at the time and had renounced their previous citizenship. [More…]
As the Committee said in 1976, every person should have the one nationality or, as Senator Lajovic prefers it to be put, one citizenship only. [More…]
But until that stage comes, we should recognise that people are unfortunately in the position of having dual citizenship and that they do face very real difficulties. [More…]
It is up to this Government and future Australian governments to recognise those difficulties and to defend very vigorously the rights of Australian citizens, whether other people think they have dual citizenship or not, and to come to agreement both with those conglomerations of nations which have reached some agreement on this and with individual nations whose former citizens are now citizens of Australia. [More…]
Indeed, it would be funny if it were not for the fact that people’s careers, rights to citizenship and even basic human rights are being threatened by this sort of idiocy. [More…]
For instance, anybody who has been refused a passport or citizenship can apply again and his application will be the subject of a fresh assessment and thereby a right of appeal. [More…]
I have always regarded Aboriginals as being Australians with all the rights and privileges of Australians, and with the responsibilities that go with the citizenship of this country. [More…]
In clause 34 it relates to action where it is affecting access to a place being broadly matters under the Migration Act 1958 and Australian Citizenship Act 1948. [More…]
As I understand it, in the normal case the DirectorGeneral of Security would be giving security assessments to Commonwealth agencies about Commonwealth employees or people who are applying under Commonwealth laws for citizenship, for passports or for that type of thing. [More…]
One finds that some Federal and State departments, before granting permanency, demand the acquisition of Australian citizenship. [More…]
The granting of such citizenship depends upon the making of a security evaluation, and it is for that reason there is added need to make quite clear that a basic obligation exists. [More…]
The point Senator Cavanagh mentioned underlines the fact that perhaps the employment of a senior academic in a university would not be stifled to the extent of that of someone on a relatively low wage in a government department, where the acquisition of citizenship was essential to the granting of permanent employment. [More…]
The exercise of any power, or the performance of any function, in relation to a person under the Australian Citizenship Act 1948, the Passports Act 1938 or the regulations under cither of those Acts; [More…]
We are talking about the provision of what is known as security assessments about a person in relation to his employment by the Commonwealth or, in some cases, by a State, or about actions under the Migration Act, the Passports Act or the Australian Citizenship Act. [More…]
I suppose that all honourable senators have read about the history of Harry Bridges and the ordeal which he went through before he obtained citizenship of the United States of America. [More…]
I quote from a 1974 Law Society Journal of Canada which outlines the apparatus for dealing with citizenship matters there. [More…]
It will be admitted that in every State of the Commonwealth there are quite a number of people, whether they be Commonwealth employees, people on the fringe, as Senator Elstob described them or ethnic people whose applications for citizenship have been delayed or denied. [More…]
I make it perfectly clear that it is true that the Canadian apparatus encompasses immigration matters outside actual citizenship determinations. [More…]
It has honest differences of opinion with militant people, on their own ethnic causes and trade union causes, who sometimes have to go through an experience similar to Gethsemane to gain citizenship. [More…]
I believe that people such as longstanding trade unionists like Senator Cavanagh would agree with me that, to take an extreme case, we could appoint to the committee a person who purports to be competent to deal with a trade unionist who had been denied promotion, or perhaps a migrant trade unionist without Australian citizenship who had suffered an excessively severe ASIO evaluation, yet if Bob Hawke were asked whether the Australian Council of Trade Unions could find a suitable appointee, I doubt that he would get somebody competent to do the job. [More…]
A person on the tribunal may have dealt with immigration and ethnic affairs people and could have been party to decisions that were made on criteria to be applied on questions of citizenship. [More…]
I know that in New South Wales when we were dealing with the housing commission applicants, in order to obtain a proper citizenship review we would have somebody from the Country Womens Association, somebody from a major trade union in that area, and that general type of representation. [More…]
In a situation where a militant Italian has a problem regarding citizenship, a Greek member of the tribunal, who may be an excellent man in the Greek commmunity would not be familiar with the ebbs and flows of the Italian community. [More…]
As a matter of fact, Senator Elstob mentioned to me some time ago that he went up into the opal fields and a man said to him: ‘I applied for citizenship two or three years ago and I never heard anything’. [More…]
I think, from the points that Senator Mulvihill has made, he is concerned that any action of that kind would be in the performance of any powers or functions under the Migration Act, the Citizenship Act or the Passport Act. [More…]
The tribunal is not going to be concerned with a general review of the exercise of a power to grant citizenship or not grant a passport, but will be concerned simply with that element; that is, if there is a security assessment which is an element in that decision, the appeal will be in relation simply to that security assessment. [More…]
I rather fancied from the documents that Senator Mulvihill handed to me that it was dealing with the whole question of whether a person ought to be deported or granted citizenship. [More…]
We know that permanent appointment to half of the positions in the Public Service is contingent on possession of Australian citizenship. [More…]
A Palestinian, for example, may be denied permanency until he is granted Australian citizenship. [More…]
Appointment to the staff of well over half of these bodies is dependent on Australian citizenship. [More…]
I am not saying it is wrong that people do not have Australian citizenship but I would like to feel that if a person without Australian citizenship runs into a barrier there is a speedy review of his case so he knows where he stands. [More…]
This Portuguese chap cannot get promotion until his citizenship is cleared up. [More…]
Arthur Calwell and I saw the Minister for Immigration and Ivan Kosovich gained citizenship. [More…]
Ivan Kosovich waited a long while for citizenship. [More…]
That is why I am being so penetrating now and finding out whether this machine that we are creating will avoid the situation in which people like Ivan Kosovich have to wait an unnecessarily long time for citizenship. [More…]
I turn to cases involving the Migration Act, the Passports Act or the Citizenship Act. [More…]
Then it will be expunged and those who appeal will have the right to have their applications for citizenship, passports or whatever under those Acts considered in the light of current assessments. [More…]
Such a decision cannot be rectified as can a denial of citizenship or action in other cases. [More…]
Australian Citizenship Act 1948- s. 6. [More…]
How many: (a) aliens; and (b) Commonwealth nationals, applied for Australian citizenship in each year from 1972 to 1977. [More…]
How many in each category were: (a) granted: and (b) refused, citizenship in each of those years. [More…]
What were the reasons for refusal of citizenship in each case where citizenship was not granted. [More…]
What was the country of origin of those granted citizenship during each year from 1 972 to 1 978. [More…]
Minister can explain the implications of a paragraph appearing in a judgment given by Mr Justice Brennan of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to a recent deportation case which stated: lt was relevant that Mr Pochi’s liability to deportation depended in part upon an apparent failure by the Department of Immigration and Ethic Affairs to advise him that a grant of citizenship had been made. [More…]
Is it not a fact that a person who obtains citizenship can be deported only for an offence that occurred before citizenship was granted? [More…]
What are the details of Mr Pochi’s application for citizenship and its subsequent processing, and was the Minister aware of all these facts when deportation proceedings were instituted? [More…]
As a general statement, the Minister wishes to say that once Australian citizenship has been conferred the grantee cannot be deported from Australia, being no longer subject to the deportation provisions of the Migration Act 1958. [More…]
With regard to the other questions raised by Senator Mulvihill, I am advised that, although the grant of a certificate of Australian citizenship to Mr Pochi was approved on 25 February 1975, he did not receive advice of that approval. [More…]
On the day on which he applied for citizenship Mr Pochi sought permission to re-enter Australia after a proposed visit to Italy. [More…]
A subsequent application for citizenship was received but was not proceeded with to finality in view of the receipt of information that Mr Pochi was to be charged. [More…]
The effective date of the grant of citizenship to a person over the age of 16 years is the date on which he or she takes the oath of allegiance. [More…]
As the oath of allegiance was not taken by Mr Pochi, Australian citizenship was never conferred on him. [More…]
It is by no means unusual for persons approved for the grant of a certificate of Australian citizenship not to proceed. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle will be aware that I indulged in considerable dialogue with officers of this Department about the backlog of people- probably trade union activists- who find their citizenship applications in a sort of limbo. [More…]
I know that recent legislation on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the tribunal for people who are denied citizenship because of security evaluation will not be finalised for some time. [More…]
I am writing in reply to your representations concerning the application for Australian Citizenship lodged by Mr Viriato Pires of 1 1 Telopea Avenue, Flemington. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill inquired about the legislation of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the proposed tribunal which could affect persons denied citizenship. [More…]
Ethnic Affairs in Sydney relating to an application for citizenship by Mr Viriato Pires on which a decision has not been reached. [More…]
I am advised that whilst the majority of applications for citizenship are decided as quickly as possible some do involve factors which necessitate more lengthy consideration. [More…]
Did the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs several years ago cut corners in accelerating citizenship acquisition to several members of an Australian national soccer team competing in South East Asia? [More…]
As a consequence did it inform Sir Arthur George, the Australian Soccer Federation President, and other senior officers of the basic provisions of the Migration Act and the Australian Citizenship Act in order to avoid a repetition of this situation? [More…]
Does the potential membership of the Australian national soccer team include a number of people who do not have Australian citizenship? [More…]
I am advised that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has, whenever possible in the past, taken action to assist the processing of applications for Australian citizenship, including those from sportsmen. [More…]
Every assistance will be given in the future to people who qualify to apply for Australian citizenship. [More…]
Two of the basic requirements to be met at present for the grant of Australian citizenship are that applicants have the status of resident of Australia and have resided here for three years. [More…]
The Australian Citizenship Act allows the Minister discretion to exempt people from the normal 3-year residence requirement only if they are under 2 1 years of age, are married to or are the widow or widower of an Australian citizen, or were formerly Australians. [More…]
People who were legally admitted to Australia on a temporary basis and who later became residents may count the entire period of their time spent in Australia towards the residence requirement for citizenship. [More…]
The Department is not aware of any approach in recent times from the Australian Soccer Federation concerning Australian citizenship. [More…]
The applications of the other four, who had Greek passports and Greek citizenship, were rejected. [More…]
I feel that there is no more laudable attribute in anyone’s character, and in fundamental good citizenship, than personal integrity and loyal and dedicated service to the causes to which the person is attracted. [More…]
What were the dates of the Prime Minister’s electorate talks which were translated by the Translation Section of the Citizenship Branch, of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, concerns the standards required by the Australian Government before citizenship is granted. [More…]
This week my office has received six complaints from people, some of whom received letters advising that they did not have an adequate knowledge of the responsibility and privileges of Australian citizenship and some of whom were told at the first interview that they were refused because their English was not fluent enough. [More…]
Will the Minister advise the Senate of the guidelines and standards required before Australian citizenship is granted? [More…]
Australian citizens do not lose their citizenship should they automatically acquire the citizenship of another country under the laws of that country, whether they are residing in Australia or elsewhere. [More…]
Consequently, no Australian citizen will lose Australian citizenship because of the automatic acquisition of citizenship of the USSR as a result of the laws of that country. [More…]
In the meantime, I repeat the advice given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in his statement to the Parliament in May last year that the problems of dual nationality cannot be overcome by citizens simply asserting that they do not accept their other citizenship and that it is for the individual to ascertain in advance the consequences of coming within the jurisdiction of another country which claims his or her citizenship. [More…]
Secondly, I ask whether the Minister will table a further document in which Mr Urbanchich was evaluated for Australian citizenship. [More…]
In the case of the second request, irrespective of individual rights there is a government right to see that no false information has been given by people who are seeking Australian citizenship and who might have had peculiar wartime associations. [More…]
Will the entitlement to repatriation benefits proposed in the present Budget for those men and women who served in Allied armed forces be restricted to those persons resident in Australia who have taken out Australian citizenship? [More…]
It is reported that this law also makes the renouncing of Soviet citizenship a punishable offence. [More…]
Are they private overseas students when, once they get there, they enjoy the other conditions of citizenship which Australians enjoy? [More…]
What progress has been made in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands towards providing the inhabitants with the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizenship, in particular as regards wage rates, health, education and welfare. [More…]
The citizenship provisions of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act were amended to extend Australian citizenship to any person (not already an Australian citizen) who was ordinarily resident in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands immediately before their transfer to Australia and who is now resident in Australia or an external Territory and who wishes to take up Australian citizenship. [More…]
This formidable success in takeover of groups and individuals by Yugoslav agents was made possible only because Yugoslavia can still claim citizenship over its dissidents. [More…]
In saying that I recognise that this matter is tied up with great difficulties in respect of questions of dual citizenship which are not readily resolvable but which governments must continue to attempt to resolve in the interests of their own and other citizens. [More…]
The Ministers said the prevention of child removal was a complex matter involving questions of jurisdiction, dual nationality, citizenship, freedom of travel and rights of the child. [More…]
An agreement has been reached between the two nations that the rights of the indigenous people in the area should be protected; that their rights to Australian citizenship should not in any way be affected; that there should be a common zone of interest to the Papua New Guineans and the Torres Strait Islanders; and that the area is of importance to both peoples and should be protected for their common use. [More…]
1 ) The Australian Citizenship Act (Section 14) requires applicants for Australian citizenship to satisfy the Minister that they have an adequate knowledge of the English language and of the responsibilities and privileges of Australian citizenship. [More…]
Information persons need to know when applying for Australian citizenship is outlined in a pamphlet entitled ‘Becoming an Australian Citizen’ which is available to all applicants. [More…]
Applicants are not required to read and write English but are expected to satisfy the interviewing officer that they are able to speak and understand English sufficiently well to enable them to follow any ordinary occupation, to procure without difficulty their everyday requirements and to explain their knowledge of the responsibilities and privileges of Australian citizenship. [More…]
Where a husband and wife apply for citizenship together, only one of the two needs to meet the language requirement. [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 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…]
Whilst 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…]
Will the entitlement to repatriation benefits proposed in the present Budget for those men and women who served in Allied armed forces be restricted to those persons resident in Australia who have taken out Australian citizenship? [More…]
Of course it is now possible under the citizenship legislation which came in in 1973 for a person to become naturalised not after five years, but after three years. [More…]
How different will they be from the English tests for citizenship in this country? [More…]
Many, if not most, of the people who will pay the re-entry endorsement charge could avoid doing so by taking out Australian citizenship, for which they would be eligible. [More…]
1 ) Does a recently promulgated Soviet law, operative from 1 July 1979: (a) declare that all persons both in territories now forming part of the USSR as well as their children, are Soviet citizens; and (b) make renouncing Soviet citizenship a punishable crime. [More…]
Clause 1 7 of the new law deals with renunciation of USSR citizenship, but does not make renunciation a punishable crime. [More…]
b ) Implement the recommendation in the Report of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration (paragraph 8.2.14) that all nationality requirements for permanent appointment to the Australian Public Service be abolished except where the Governor-General in Council prescribes Australian citizenship by regulation as a qualification (not a condition of eligibility) for particular positions. [More…]
The Status of Soviet Jewry- 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…]
I want to find out whether people made false statements when they sought citizenship. [More…]
Even in ancient days people recognised that citizenship of the world could dispell discord, even between hostile peoples. [More…]
For example, my Depanment recently distributed a brochure on citizenship in Croatian and my recent statement to the Parliament about the implementation of the Galbally Report will be available in Croatian. [More…]
Again in the immigration and citizenship area where appeals are necessary- these matters are the subject of a great deal of investigation, thought and recommendation- there is no significant appellate jurisdiction in the Tribunal. [More…]
There is no question that he has Australian citizenship. [More…]
On 29 May 1978, immediately following discussions with the Ombudsman, a circular was sent to all overseas posts drawing their attention to circumstances in which, in the event of loss or theft of an Australian passport, consular officers may approve the issue of a replacement passport of limited validity, pending confirmation of identity and Australian Citizenship of the applicant. [More…]
The new citizenship index monitoring system previously on trial has been adopted in the Sydney Office of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]