10.4225/03/590aa6edd5f5f
Betts, Katharine
Katharine
Betts
Birrell, Bob
Bob
Birrell
Making Australian citizenship mean more
Monash University
2017
Australian citizenship
monash:64110
journal article
1039-4788
Policy
1959.1/482289
2017-05-04 03:58:36
Journal contribution
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Making_Australian_citizenship_mean_more/4969346
After over 30 years of increasingly easy access, Australian citizenship is becoming harder to acquire. Permanent residents must now wait for four years before applying (instead of two), and the Government intends to introduce a formal citizenship test. This latter change is the subject of heated debate. The emotion surrounding this debate can be best understood as an instance of the clash of two competing views about what citizenship ought to mean: the procedural and the patriotic.
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