(Download) "Making Australian Citizenship Mean More." by People and Place * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Making Australian Citizenship Mean More.
- Author : People and Place
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 231 KB
Description
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. INTRODUCTION