naturalisation - hofreps - 1970

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

What is the total number of migrants resident in Australia who are eligible for naturalisation but as yet have not applied tor it? [More…]
During the period 1st January 1949 to 31st December 1969 the total number of persons whose applications for naturalisation were deferred or rejected on all grounds was 20,797. [More…]
How many migrants at present in Australia have been refused naturalisation for political reasons. [More…]
Separate figures have not been maintained to show the number of persons granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in (a) Papua and (b) New Guinea. [More…]
The following table shows the number of persons granted citizenship by naturalisation in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in each of the last twenty years. [More…]
How many residents of (a) Papua and (b) the TrustTerritoryof New Guinea have been granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in each ofthe last 20 years. [More…]
Papuaand New Guinea residents: Naturalisation as Australians (Question No.191) [More…]
Refusals and deferrals of naturalisation to communists and to extremists of the right have been - recorded as being on security grounds. [More…]
74 persons whose applications were deferred or refused on security grounds have been granted naturalisation following the review of their cases. [More…]
How many migrants of each nationality have been refused naturalisation on security grounds based upon (a) extreme left wing political views or associations and (b) extreme right wing political view or associations. [More…]
How many certificates of naturalisation were conferred in the last financial year in each local government area in which more than 100 certificates were conferred. [More…]
How many migrants in Australia at this date, who are eligible for naturalisation, have not yet applied. [More…]
The number of persons granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in each of the past five financial years was [More…]
How many persons of each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in 1970? [More…]
How many non-European migrants have been granted naturalisation in each year since March 1966 and what is the total to date? [More…]
The normal residence requirements for naturalisation as defined in the answer to the honourable member’s question No. [More…]
How many certificates of naturalisation were conferred in 1970-71 in each local government area in which more than100 certificates were conferred. [More…]
The following table shows the estimated percentages of eligible persons who have been granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in the period 1st January 1945 to 30th June 1970 in the alien national categories listed in the 1969-70 Citizenship Return: [More…]
What are the percentages of settlers in the forty-nine national categories, listed in the Return for the year 1969-70 under the Citizenship Act, who have applied for and been granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation and registration during the years of the post-war migration programme. [More…]
Were any Australian citizens by naturalisation or registration among the 743 persons deported during 1970-71 as listed in ‘Migration Facts and Figures’ circulated by him in September 1971; if so, what was the reason in each case. [More…]
(a) and (b) The following tables show the number of persons in each nationality granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in Australia and Papua New Guinea in 1970-71: [More…]
How many persons in each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in: [More…]
How many persons eligible for naturalisation are not naturalised at this date. [More…]
Do post offices perform any services tor Commonwealth Government departments in addition to those connected with (a) electrical registration - Department of the Interior, (b) alien registration and application for naturalisation - Department of Immigration (e) registration for national service - Department of Labour and National Service, (d) War Service Homes loan repayments - Department of Housing, (c) taxation forms, lax stamps and tax books - Department of the Treasury, (f) applications for age, widow and invalid pensions, child endowment, supplementary, assistance, pre-natal allowance and pensioners reduced television and radio licence - Department of Social Services and (g) applications for war widows’ pensions and war widows’ reduced television and radio licence - Repatriation Department. [More…]
Has Petrov or his wife made application for naturalisation. [More…]
How many persons of each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation between 1 January 1945 and 31 December 1972 (Hansard, 9 December 1971, page 4606). [More…]
How many persons of each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in Australia and Papua New Guinea in 1971-72 (Hansard, 25 November 1971, page 3757). [More…]
How many Certificates of Naturalisation were conferred in 1971-72 in each local government area in which more than 100 Certificates were conferred (Hansard, 9 September 1969, page 1020; 2 September 1970; page 904 and 6 October 1971, page 1999). [More…]
How many applications for naturalisation have been refused as a result of Australian security reports since 2 December 1972. [More…]
With the co-operation of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, electoral claim cards are customarily distributed at naturalisation ceremonies. [More…]
As far as I am concerned - I come in contact with this sort of thing so often in relation to the naturalisation of people, the issuing of passports and other administrative decisions - we must by some means or other remove from executive authority the power by administrative decree to withhold from any Australian or any person a fundamental right [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration: Is it a fact that immigrants are encouraged to believe that naturalisation will entitle them to all the privileges of Australian citizenship? [More…]
Is he aware of the concern and resentment of elderly migrants who find that, in spite of naturalisation, they are denied the age pension because they have not been in Australia for 10 years? [More…]
1 preface my question to the Minister for Social Services by reminding him that yesterday the honourable member for Perth asked the Minister for Immigration whether he was aware of the concern and resentment of elderly migrants who found that, in spite of naturalisation, they are denied the age pension because they have not been in Australia for 10 years and he referred to their complaints of being treated as second class citizens. [More…]
It was in 1966, if I remember correctly, that the naturalisation qualification for pensions was removed. [More…]
I spent the day in my office and attended a naturalisation ceremony that night. [More…]
Is there a residency qualification, notwithstanding naturalisation, of 10 years for eligibility for an age pension and 5 years for eligibility for an invalid pension for migrants from most countries. [More…]
It is quite clear that his applications for naturalisation and Australian citizenship have been rejected because he is a member of the Australian Communist Party. [More…]
I question the justification of the Government’s rejecting an application for naturalisation merely because a person belongs to the Australian Communist Party. [More…]
What is the total number of migrants resident in Australia who are eligible for naturalisation but who as yet have not applied for naturalisation? [More…]
Finally, what disabilities does an alien face in Australia and what benefits does naturalisation confer? [More…]
Democracy as well as the Parliament and the people are not well served if the member of Parliament feels that his sole responsibility is h s electorate; if he feels that he has no responsibility for what is happening in the rest of Australia; or if he feels that all he need do is attend charity bazaars and naturalisation ceremonies and kiss a baby or two. [More…]
The honourable gentleman is aware that there are over 200,000 migrants eligible for naturalisation who have not applied for same. [More…]
For instance, we are somewhat concerned at he failure of the Governmentto provide visas for overseas visitors, at the refusal of naturalisation and many other allied matters. [More…]
Many of these people are naturalised and many more are awaiting naturalisation. [More…]
This young man applied for naturalisation, but his request has not been acceded to. [More…]
If this is the reason for his failure to get naturalisation, it should be stated. [More…]
They were looking forward to naturalisation. [More…]
However, they offered the view that they were afraid to take part in political activity because of a general feeling that migrants who took part in political parties other than the Government parties may be refused naturalisation. [More…]
Although the Minister has assured the House that the numbers refused naturalisation for political reasons were small, I am very concerned with the development of this view among migrants under our immigration plan, particularly amongst such a very responsible group. [More…]
The honourable member also referred to the naturalisation of migrants. [More…]
In what ways are immigrants disadvantaged under law in Australia either before or after naturalisation. [More…]
As indicated above the entry rules are the same for New Zealand citizens by birth and by naturalisation. [More…]
When adult aliens have been in Australia for 4 years they receive a letter from the Minister reminding them of their eligibility to apply for naturalisation and inviting them to lodge an application. [More…]
This action is taken because the average length of residence at the time of naturalisation has been found to be over 8 years; [More…]
Naturalisation Promotion Officers in New South Wales and Victoria, work through national groups, employer and employee organisations, the Good Neighbour Councils and other organisations interested in the integration of migrants; also Mobile Units tour selected areas in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia to furnish citizenship information, accept applications and interview applicants; [More…]
With the co-operation of Local Government authorities arrangements are made for eligible persons to be invited to attend their local town hall to discuss citizenship questions, lodge applications for naturalisation and have their interviews immediately; [More…]
Neither Australian citizens by birth nor by naturalisation require visas (or passports) to travel from Australia to New Zealand. [More…]
However, Australian citizens by naturalisation may on arrival in New Zealand, or subsequently, be asked to confirm their citizenship and it is advisable that they carry appropriate evidence of it [More…]
In addition to that, we have found that a lot of those who have come here and sought naturalisation are not suitable for many reasons. [More…]
In the 19 years to 1969 we rejected 529 applicants for naturalisation on security grounds and 20,022 on other grounds. [More…]
It is amazing that in these years we have had such a high incidence of people whose applications for naturalisation have been rejected because of their inability to speak English. [More…]
Is Australia at present represented overseas by officers of his Department, who are not Australian citizens by either registration or naturalisation. [More…]
As at 31st October 1970 all Australia-based officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs serving overseas were Australian citizens by birth, residence, registration or naturalisation, with the exception of eight, two of whom were citizens of New Zealand and six citizens of the United Kingdom. [More…]
Is Australia at present represented overseas by officers of his Department of various levels who are not Australian citizens by either registration or naturalisation. [More…]
The number of non-European residents of Australia who were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in each financial year since March 1966 was as follows: [More…]
Between 1956 and 30 June 1970 a total of 8562 non-European residents of Australia had been granted citizenship by naturalisation. [More…]
The table hereunder shows the number of persons of each nationality granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in 1970. [More…]
How many migrants eligible for citizenship have not applied for naturalisation to date. [More…]
Since the normal residential requirement for citizenship by naturalisation is 5 years, few, if any, of the persons concerned would yet be eligi ble for the grant of citizenship. [More…]
The subject to which the honourable member refers relates to the non-European policy of 1966, which requires a 5-year period of residence for naturalisation. [More…]
The Government’s view is that too short a period has elapsed for it to make a judgment that the period of residence before naturalisation should at this stage be shortened. [More…]
Statistics which have been maintained only since 1st January 1963 show that between that date and the 31st December 1970, 1,581 persons of Asian origin were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation within 5 years of their arrival in Australia. [More…]
How many migrants in Victoria between 1945 and 1970 (a) applied for naturalisation, (b) were unsuccessful in their applications for naturalisation and (c) have not had their applications granted, their applications being currently deferred or pending? [More…]
Statistics showing the number of applications f0 naturalisation by residents of Victoria have been maintained only from 1953. [More…]
(a) The normal residence requirement for the grant of Australian citizenship by naturalisation to aliens is 5 years. [More…]
(i) The question of the reduction in the general 5 years requirement for naturalisation was considered in 1969 when the Government decided to reduce to 3 years the residence requirement for aliens who can read and write English proficiently. [More…]
We have the doubtful distinction of having one of the worst and lowest scales of social benefits in the world, and if one looks at the figures for naturalisation it will be found that it is the main reason for the abysmally low percentage of migrants who have applied for naturalisation. [More…]
When an alien is notified of the approval of his application for naturalisation he is informed that upon naturalisation he will enjoy thesa me rights and privileges and become subject to the same responsibilities as an Australian born citizen. [More…]
There are migrants whose applications for naturalisation are deferred or rejected on security grounds or who have been notified of the grounds upon which it is proposed to deport them. [More…]
Let us deal with naturalisation of the migrants who come to this country. [More…]
The fact is that only 53 per cent of Greeks eligible for naturalisation have become naturalised. [More…]
Nearly 250,000 people who are eligible for naturalisation have not sought it. [More…]
The Department of Immigration maintains essential statistics of persons admitted with resident status, granted resident status after entry for temporary residence, and granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation or regisitration. [More…]
12,650 were Australian citizens by naturalisation or registration and 11,820 had resident status. [More…]
No statistics are available as to the number of persons of mixed descent granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation or registration. [More…]
What (a) number and (b) percentage of eligible persons has been granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in the period 1st January 1945 to 30th June 1971 in the alien national categories listed in the 1970-71 Citizenship Return. [More…]
the number of persons of each nationality who were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation between 1st January 1945 and 30th June 1971; and [More…]
Suddenly the New South Wales Supreme Court has insisted on his presenting a certificate of naturalisation or other certificate to show that he is a British subject. [More…]
He looked at his father’s certificate of naturalisation and it has turned out that he, the son, was not included on it. [More…]
1 checked with the Department of Immigration and found that his name was included on the application for naturalisation, but due to a clerical error he was not naturalised and is not a British subject. [More…]
What a silly distinction to make between that person and a person whose name was included on a naturalisation form. [More…]
They have an Australian pension, sure, but I think a figure has been quoted in this House today to the effect that something like one-third of them do not apply for naturalisation. [More…]
How many officers of his Department who represent Australia overseas have not yet become Australian citizens by naturalisation or registration and where are they serving. [More…]
As at 28th February 1972 all Australian-based officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs serving overseas were Australian citizens by birth, residence, registration or naturalisation, with the exception of 6, all of whom were British subjects and citizens of the United Kingdom, serving in the following countries: [More…]
A person, whose place of birth indicates that he may be an alien, could be required to produce his Certificate of Naturalisation. [More…]
Under current procedures, a person is asked to provide particulars of his naturalisation when the [More…]
Naturalisation - See Section15 of the Citizenship Act. [More…]
Every argument the Leader of the Opposition used in this debate today, and when introducing his own Bill, and every statement he has made at naturalisation ceremonies - misusing ceremonies of naturalisation around the country - has been a distortion or a bending of the truth, as I will now proceed to demonstrate. [More…]
He stated also that 311,952 migrants were eligible for naturalisation but had not been naturalised. [More…]
That truth is that at 30th June 1971, the latest time for which statistics are available, there were 228,700 people eligible to seek naturalisation who had not applied for it. [More…]
He also ignores the fact that the proportion of eligible migrants who seek naturalisation in Australia compares more than favourably with the experiences pf other migrants - receiving countries. [More…]
There was no residential qualification whatsoever in that Bill, apart, of course, from the naturalisation requirement. [More…]
I refer to Labor’s original proposition regarding naturalisation. [More…]
I refer to the absence in the present Bill of the need for naturalisation. [More…]
We have discrimination even in naturalisation, which is undesirable, ft may be said that the law has not been invoked. [More…]
I suggest that by the imposition of a naturalisation requirement the Leader of the Opposition is putting a price on Australian nationality - $17 a week, the amount of the present age pension. [More…]
I met them at a naturalisation ceremony and I have met other Iraqis since then. [More…]
Shortly, Australians will be able to speak of citizenship rather than naturalisation ceremonies. [More…]
I know of a case - 1 will not name the gentleman concerned, but his wife would be known to many honourable members opposite as well as to many Government supporters - in which over a long period a man was refused naturalisation by the previous Government. [More…]
Immigration and sought the reasons why this man had been refused naturalisation. [More…]
When he is naturalised, I will be proud to go to the naturalisation ceremony in Canberra and shake his hand, because he was done a terrible wrong. [More…]
Firstly, it applied only to Australian citizens and therefore ignored those people who had lived and worked in Australia for a long time but had not taken out naturalisation. [More…]
Fourthly, it substitutes the term ‘citizenship ceremony’ for the present description used in the legislation: naturalisation ceremony’. [More…]
The Opposition supports the change of name for the function at which migrants become Australians from ‘naturalisation ceremony’ to ‘cit izenship ceremony’, lt supports also the move to lower the age at which a person becomes eligible to citizenship, from 21 to 18 years. [More…]
Registration whereby a migrant with the status of British subject or an Irish citizen who is eligible to be granted a certificate of citizenship may be granted if he satisfies the Minister This may become effective without an oath of allegiance being taken in any public naturalisation or - as the Bill now describes it - citizenship ceremony. [More…]
This conjures up a picture of tens of thousands of British migrants seriously disaffected because they do not have the privilege of being naturalised at a naturalisation ceremony and, instead, are seriously discriminated against by being able to acquire citizenship by registration. [More…]
The Government, by proposing to alter the traditional system whereby British subjects of European origin are required to be in Australia for only one year before naturalisation, has adopted, whether deliberately or not, a stance Which will be widely interpreted as being unfriendly to British migration and as a deterrent in some cases to British migration. [More…]
The existence of these inequalities has in the past often deterred migrants from even seeking naturalisation. [More…]
Of those not British subjects and eligible to aply for Australain citizenship because they have resided in Australia for 5 years, 701,448 had applied for naturalisation up until a little earlier this year. [More…]
In the first place it changes the name of the ceremony from a naturalisation ceremony to a citizenship ceremony. [More…]
A number of migrants have asked me: ‘What does naturalisation mean? [More…]
The Bill seeks to reduce the period of residence after which a migrant may apply for naturalisation from 5 years to 3 years. [More…]
If we want to retain the largest possible number of migrants who come to Australia we ought to be encouraging them to seek naturalisation and to want to belong to Australia. [More…]
The point is - the Minister has lost sight of this - that the previous Government was not practising discrimination against nonUnited Kingdom migrants because it applied a different time factor for qualifying for naturalisation to the non-British migrant. [More…]
To my mind naturalisation is something which accords to the person who is naturalised and who is a newcomer to this country equal status with a natural born Australian. [More…]
Clause 2 of Article 7 which deals with Yugoslav citizenship by naturalisation states that a person gets this ‘if he has renounced his former citizenship or has a guarantee that this will be possible if he acquires Yugoslav citizenship’. [More…]
It would apply to a person who was an Australian citizen by naturalisation, that is a citizen not born in Australia. [More…]
How many persons of each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation between 1 January 1945 and 31 December 1972 (Hansard, 9 December 1971, page 4606). [More…]
How many persons of each nationality were granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation in Australia and Papua New Guinea in 1971-72 (Hansard 25 November 1971, page 3757). [More…]
How many Certificates of Naturalisation were conferred in 1971-72 in each local government area in which more than 100 Certificates were conferred (Hansard, 9 September 1969, page 1020; 2 September 1970, page 904 and 6 October 1971, page 1999). [More…]
The Committee on naturalisation set up as long ago as 1963 - 10 years ago - recommended the same action as the committee which I set up in 1973. [More…]
In the second place, loss of original nationality results automatically from naturalisation in the case of persons who were originally nationals of countries such as the USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Austria. [More…]
We could turn Kings Hall into a great place for naturalisation ceremonies and all manner of public gatherings. [More…]
I should like to say that in more than 800 local government areas throughout the whole of Australia there has been over the years a very fine effort made by the overwhelming majority of local government bodies and their officers to assist in the carrying out of what were known in the past as naturalisation ceremonies. [More…]
It fought very hard to have the renunciation sentence excluded from the oath, but, as I said earlier, as a result of the efforts of the Opposition in the Senate all candidates for naturalisation and for citizenship will be required to renounce allegiance to the country within the British Commonwealth of Nations from which they have come. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power in relation to borrowing money on the public credit of the Commonwealth, naturalisation, service and execution of documents throughout the Commonwealth, and the recognition throughout the Commonwealth of State laws. [More…]
Should these British people fail to register by a certain date they will have to go through the normal process of taking out naturalisation papers. [More…]
What is the average time taken in each capital city in processing applications for Australian citizenship from first contact to the naturalisation ceremony? [More…]
In fact he was present at the first naturalisation ceremony held in South Australia and presided over by Sir Mellis Napier, the acting Governor at that time. [More…]
It will be seen that the greatest number of aliens, as shown by the number of people receiving certificates of naturalisation, is in what are called small divisions. [More…]
I think that it is time we made naturalisation easier. [More…]
I understand that there is an enormous hold-up on naturalisation applications simply because people have to be investigated. [More…]
Once a person has lived here in such a way that it can be determined that he intends to stay, that he is part of the scene and is working and paying taxes, naturalisation ought to be a right, and ought to be easy to get. [More…]
The application for naturalisation ought to be lodged at the local town hall and processed almost immediately. [More…]
I am inclined towards a ceremonial admission to the Australian community but I would make naturalisation easier with a shorter qualifying period. [More…]
It is wrong to allow people to live for years in our midst and deny them the rights of naturalisation and all the things that flow from it. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties will reinforce the significance and dignity of citizenship proceedings and naturalisation ceremonies. [More…]
I have here a copy of his naturalisation certificate. [More…]
Prior to 1949 persons naturalised as British subjects were not required to attend conferment ceremonies, but had their certificates of naturalisation posted to them. [More…]
I have handled hundreds of cases in my time as a member of Parliament on behalf of people who have been excluded from this country, refused residency or refused naturalisation on these grounds, and eventually I have won a lot of those cases. [More…]
It is not necessary to produce a birth certificate or a naturalisation certificate. [More…]
It is not like getting a passport, where one has to take along a birth certificate or naturalisation certificate. [More…]
At the same time it holds a naturalisation ceremony and a small pageant. [More…]
The modifications, which I am announcing today, are designed to provide a framework for the ‘naturalisation’ of” foreign-owned companies over a period of time. [More…]
A company in the process of naturalisation would be given prior credit for achieving 5 1 per cent Australian ownership and would therefore be able to proceed with a new project on the same basis as outlined above. [More…]
The Government would expect the naturalisation process to take place primarily by way of new share issues to Australians to fund new projects and expansions, rather than by takeovers which will remain subject to case-by-case examination under the Foreign Takeovers Act. [More…]
As part of the arrangements there would need to be a general understanding with the major shareholder interests of the company on the process of naturalisation and the exercise of voting powers in re,spect of the Australian business. [More…]
the naturalisation process to take place primarily by way of new share issues to Australians to fund new projects and expansions, rather than by takeovers which will remain subject to case-by-case examination under the Foreign Takeovers Act. [More…]
We would not only expect but we would require that the naturalisation process should take place, not primarily, but exactly by way of new share issues, and that that should be achieved within a certain time scale. [More…]
Will the statement detail, among other things, specific and rigorous criteria relating to the process of naturalisation, a policy announced by the Treasurer some time ago but then with only scant attention to the mechanics? [More…]
Rather than just a consolidated statement or booklet we were looking for a statement of policy principles with much grander embellishment than we were given by the Treasurer when he announced the change to the naturalisation policy. [More…]
This is not because of the naturalisation procedure or policy. [More…]
Rather than the flimsy notification procedures set out in the document, we should have one which would require a company to keep the registrar advised at all times of changes in equity structure or investment plans, so that the registrar could ensure that the naturalisation policy was being followed. [More…]
That opportunity should not be presented to them and we urge the Treasurer to re-think his position on the naturalisation of companies and the affording of Australian status to those companies which happen to have more than 25 per cent Australian ownership; to bring back a new statement which will close some of the loopholes which exist under the present policy. [More…]
Honourable members make long speeches at naturalisation ceremonies about the benefits of becoming naturalised. [More…]
For years they were refused naturalisation on the basis of an adverse security report. [More…]
Hundreds of people have had their naturalisation suspended, held up or denied because of reports from faceless people in the security service. [More…]
His naturalisation was held up for many years. [More…]