Hearings will take place around the country in what will be known as a "community-listening" tour.
It follows the release of government's discussion paper on the proposed changes to the legislation which are due to be introduced into federal parliament next month. [sept]
Government Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells and veteran government MP Philip Ruddock will conduct the community consultation sessions.
They will focus on the government's plans to strip citizenship from dual-nationals suspected of being involved in terrorism activities.
Mr Ruddock says the discussions will include targeted meetings in heavily ethnic areas across the nation.
"During the next two non-sitting weeks we will be visiting, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Darwin, Adelaide, Perth and we will be in Tasmania. We are looking at having consultations with the public that will be invited to attend and those who are interested in these meetings will be able to let us know that they would like to participate and we are giving the opportunity through engagement with the ethnic media as well"
The government wants to add revocation of citizenship as another potential punishment for people who become involved with groups deemed to be engaged in terrorism.
Legislation has already been introduced into the House of Representatives, but is currently facing a review by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security.
Parliamentary secretary Concetta Fierravanti-Wells says the public consultations are one of the key final elements in assessing public opinion on the issue.
"Australian citizenship is very important. It's to be valued and anybody who does something to put that in jeopardy should have some sanction against them. So this is these are the strong trends that are emerging and we are in the process now of analysing those many, many responses that we have had. It has also been part of the commentary that has emerged in the face to face consultations. And this is really where we are where at the end of that process where we will be having a whole series of public consultations, where I have no doubt that that the same views that have been emerging in relation to the online and submissions that have come to us I am sure that they will come out in the public consultations that we are going to have."
The original proposal earlier in the year would have given the Immigration Minister the power to strip citizenship from Australians even if they weren't citizens of any other country.
But this would have rendered them stateless, so it was rejected by cabinet after the plan was leaked.
The new legislation applies only to dual citizens and its seen by some of Australia's allies as a vital tool in tackling terrorism.
But there are some concerns within the Islamic community who feel that they are being targeted by the legislation.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says no one group is being singled out.
"We will make sure that the law will apply equally to all and that's a very important process. We live in one of the most advanced countries in the world perhaps with one of the best systems of democracy anywhere in the world and we adhere to all of those principles and we work with communities, particularly with communities that might have a higher prevalence of young people who are being radicalised online. We work with those communities but we world with the broader society to provide a better future, not only for all of us but those people answering the call of those evil perpetrators overseas."
The government intends to deal with the legislation during the September sitting fortnight.
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