Immigrants Alert: Mess With The Don, Or Else

TOMORROW, by order of Parliament, the Australian Values test comes into force. Any of us can be stopped in the street by federal security officers and asked questions about what this nation stands for. Get two wrong in a row and you'll be issued with an Australian Values Order, which requires you to turn up at your local citizenship office within seven days for a re-education course. Those who breach an AVO face deportation to New Zealand (which is happy to take recalcitrant Australians to make ...

Theron Film Counts The Toll

South Africa's Charlize Theron gained dual US citizenship this year and in her first movie since, the A-list actress tackles a very American subject with In the Valley of Elah, which looks at the human toll of the Iraq war.

Arrest Of Neo-nazi Cell Stirs Migration Debate

THE arrest of eight violent neo-Nazis in the heart of Israel is leading to renewed debate over a law which automatically grants citizenship to anyone with a Jewish grandparent - one of the traditional cornerstones of the Zionist project.

Four-letter Word Has Teacher In Sin-bin

IT IS a simple question: who leads this country? Any John, Dick or Kevin could answer it, but one citizenship teacher may be wishing she had refrained.

Teacher Suspended Over Jibe

WHO leads this country? Any John, Dick or Kevin could answer, but one citizenship teacher may be wishing she had refrained.

Teacher Suspended Over 'dick' Jibe

WHO leads this country? Any John, Dick or Kevin could answer, but one citizenship teacher may be wishing she had refrained.

Multinational Company

PEOPLE from 32 nations, including Sudan, the United Kingdom, China, Tonga and Sweden, will pledge their loyalty to Australia when they take part in a citizenship ceremony at Newcastle City Hall on Monday.