Speaking at a forum on Tuesday morning, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten confirmed Canberra's worst kept secret in declaring that Labor would not support
the bill in its "current form".
"We think that the government's citizenship laws do have flaws and we're going to kick it around at caucus and have a look at the matter," Shorten said
at a National General Assembly of Local Government.
The government has previously said the re-vamped test would require migrants to show university-level proficiency in English and show that they align with
"Australian values" on contemporary issues such as gender equality cheap air max tn , family violence, and crime.
If the legislation was to pass Parliament, it would also require migrants to wait at least four years before applying for citizenship, while they would also
need to demonstrate how they have "integrated" into society in that time.
On Tuesday cheap air max 270 , speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Immigration Minister
Peter Dutton urged the opposition to re-think its stance on the changes, saying
the legislation would only help those hoping to become an Aussie' integrate
smoothly into Australian life.
"Every study demonstrates that people who have greater English capacity, there is the ability for them to get better jobs cheap air max 97 , do better at school and integrate better into Australian society," Dutton said on Tuesday.
"If people take the opportunities that are available to them, and over the course of the four years they know that at the end this is the language test and
this is the requirement to pass, people will improve their skills."
Dutton said the migration landscape had changed significantly compared to the mid-20th century cheap air max 95 , explaining that modern technology and easier access to education makes it much
easier for prospective citizens to get their English up to scratch.
"This is a very different scenario than it was post-world war two with people fleeing war-torn Europe coming to Australian in the late 1940s and 50s where
people went directly into manual labor and had very little interaction with the
education system or even broader society," the minister said.
"In the 21st century, there is a lot of assistance available online and the reality is that people do better across their working life if they have better
English language skills."
Dutton's - and the government's - position was further backed by Liberal Democrat Senator, David Leyonhjelm cheap air max 90 , who on Tuesday said that many other nations had even stricter citizenship rules.
"A lot of countries in the world require a reasonable period of time before permanent residents can become citizens," told the press in Canberra.
"In Switzerland it's 10 years and in Japan, you won't necessarily get citizenship until after the second generation (of migrants).
"Citizens vote, that's the most important thing. Why do they need Australian values? Because they vote."
Overnight cheap nike air max shoes , Labor MP Linda Burney summed up her and her party's concerns with the stricter measures by saying that it was wasn't "fair for
people who (were) escaping terrible situations".
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BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- China's service outsourcing industry continued to grow in the first eight months, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on
Tuesday.
Chinese companies agreed service outsourcing contracts worth 629 billion yuan (95 billion U.S. dollars) in the period cheap nike air max , up 31.2 percent year on year.
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QINGDAO, May 16 (Xinhua) -- China hopes that proposing a feasibility study of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) will help deal with the
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Chinese senior official for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Tan Jian made the comment at a press briefing after the APEC 2014 second senior
officials' meeting.
Senior officials from APEC member economies gathered in east China's port city of Qingdao from Wednesday to Thursday to discuss cooperation initiatives
ahead of the APEC leaders' meeting in November in Beijing.
Officials deliberated the next step towards the realization of the FTAAP. This involved improving information sharing between participants in free trade
and regional trade agreements.
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