a dealline to discuss the citizenship laws

The government has been given four parliamentary sitting days to bring its controversial changes to citizenship laws on for debate in the Senate or risk having them struck off.

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A Greens motion passed the upper house on Wednesday with the support of Labor, the Nick Xenophon Team and Jacqui Lambie, giving an October 18 deadline for debate to start.

The legislation would make it harder to become an Australian citizen through a range of changes including a tougher English test, Australian values test and extending the waiting time for permanent residents to apply to four years.

 

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