Pauline Hanson's tougher citizenship bill rejected as government works to clear application backlog

Biak Thwang Urai and family

Biak Thwang Urai and family Source: SBS

Pauline Hanson’s bill to increase minimum residency requirements and impose a harder English language test for would-be Australian citizens has been ((Fri)) rejected by a senate committee.


The latest attempt to make it harder to become an Australian citizen comes as the government spends nine million dollars employing more staff to deal with a citizenship application backlog of hundreds of thousands.


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