Govt considers checks on migrants at home

The Home Affairs department has proposed a new monitoring regime to check whether potential migrants are likely to obey Australian laws and values.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton

Source: AAP

The Turnbull government is considering a new system of vetting potential migrants to Australia involving intelligence services watching them before they leave their home countries.

The head of the new Home Affairs department, Michael Pezzullo, has told the Daily Telegraph the new assessment would look at people's lived behaviour to ensure they weren't faking their answers when they came to apply for Australian citizenship.

But he denies it's a way to exclude non-Anglo or non-white people, saying it would embed the Australian values framework in law.

حمّل تطبيق أس بي أس الجديد للإستماع لبرامجكم المفضلة باللغة العربية.

مستخدمو الآي فون: حمّل التطبيق هنا.

مستخدمو الأندرويد: حمّل التطبيق هنا.

 


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