Three ways to lose citizenship
The Coalition introduces its bill to Parliament outlining three new mechanisms for dual-nationals losing citizenship.
The Nationals
Terror laws may be retrospective
Australians will be asked to support retrospective laws to redouble the punishment of convicted terrorists.
Terrorism or citizenship; the choice
Tony Abbott has put too much politics into security debate.
Nats never same after Joh’s push
The Nationals have never recovered from the 1987 push to make Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen the nation’s prime minister.
Deradicalising vulnerable youth
Dual national terrorists should lose Australian citizenship
Advice backs Abbott on citizenship
The government has revised its citizenship reforms to sharpen the focus on dual nationals who engage in terrorism overseas.
Labor bristles at PM’s soft tag
Labor says Tony Abbott is wrong to attack critics as being soft on terrorism for asking that courts have role in policy.
‘Target terror convicts’
Dual nationals convicted of terrorism offences could be deported under an alternative plan on citizenship to the government’s.
Troops calmed but this is no win
Tony Abbott has headed off cabinet disquiet over the stripping of citizenship from terrorists by turning back Turnbull.
Longer visas for Chinese tourists
The federal government has extended multiple entry visas to Chinese nationals from three to 10 years, in a bid to better compete with the US.
Backbenchers want citizenship debate
The Coalition backbench wants to vet the final bill to revoke the Australian citizenship of dual-national terrorists.
Nations free to buy Aussie farms
Barnaby Joyce said he had no plans to introduce legislation blocking future rural land purchases by foreign governments.
‘Aussies should own our farms’
Barnaby Joyce defends his personal opinion that foreign state-owned enterprises should be barred from buying farmland.
‘We’ve never faced such threat’
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the issue of stripping citizenship from dual-national terrorists is a question of balance.
Citizenship ‘question of balance’
Julie Bishop says stripping Australian citizenship from dual nationals engaged in terrorism presents challenges.
Terror targets in PM’s sights
The government could be planning something much more controversial in its approach to stripping citizenship from jihadis.
Citizenship hit on terrorists
Half of all Australians convicted or suspected of terrorist offences could be stripped of their citizenship under a proposed crackdown.
Wreckers weakened government
The cabinet dispute over the proposal to strip citizenship from dual nationals is a brawl the government cannot win.
Cabinet should ‘ask hard questions’
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has defended the cabinet process amid a row over stripping citizenship from terrorists.
Minister’s power to strip citizenship
Dual nationals could have citizenship cancelled, regardless of whether a crime has been proven, Tony Abbott says.
Joyce says no to extra drought aid
Federal agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce has rejected Queensland’s plea for extra cash to help drought-stricken farmers.
Jihadist fighters ‘risk citizenship’
Second-generation Australians involved in terrorism face being stripped of their citizenship, along with dual nationals.
Downward dogs
The Agriculture Minister yesterday threatened to send Johnny Depp’s illegally imported dogs, Boo and Pistol, to Davy Jones’s locker.
Grab the shotguns, load the ute
The only answer to the looming confected Johnny Depp terrier panic is to get back to what Australia does best.
Uni Lomborg decision a disgrace
Cabinet minister Barnaby Joyce has slammed UWA’s decision to pull out of $4 million research unit run by Bjorn Lomborg.
Shaken nation struggles to find feet
One week on, Nepal is only beginning to respond to the massive earthquake.
Fish under food label spotlight
The government will consider country of origin labels on seafood at restaurants and fish and chip shops.
Greens ‘cancer’ eats Labor roots
Labor faces a new bout of soul-searching as it battles to understand how it lost two inner-city Sydney seats to the Greens.
Strewth: Fischer on Fraser
IT’S only appropriate that the most idiosyncratic tribute to our twenty-second PM, Malcolm Fraser, come from a Nationals figure, Tim Fischer.
Psychotic Brazilian seeks reprieve
ONE of the foreign nationals scheduled to be executed alongside Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukamaran is seeking a last-minute reprieve.
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