TY - DATA T1 - Making Australian citizenship mean more PY - 2017/05/04 AU - Betts, Katharine AU - Birrell, Bob UR - https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Making_Australian_citizenship_mean_more/4969346 DO - 10.4225/03/590aa6edd5f5f L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8358836 KW - Australian citizenship KW - monash:64110 KW - journal article KW - 1039-4788 KW - Policy KW - 1959.1/482289 N2 - 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. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s ER -