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citizenship
Essays & reportage
Land of plenty
Amanda Nettelbeck
26 March 2021
Is the federal government looking for too much unity in a country nourished by difference?
Essays & reportage
Game of shells
Jeremy Gans
25 March 2020
How the communists saved Josh Frydenberg
International
Exclusion, prosecution or restricted re-entry?
Jessie Blackbourn
26 February 2019
The controversy over Shamima Begum’s bid to return to Britain from Syria has parallels in Australia
National affairs
Explaining the unexplained at Home Affairs
Asher Hirsch
19 February 2019
The PM says Hakeem al-Araibi will be a citizen very soon, but a new audit office report reveals why most refugees are waiting so long for citizenship
Essays & reportage
The hospital for bare life
Annabel Stafford
9 August 2018
A visit to the site of Wyndham’s Native Hospital prompts the question: what does it mean to live outside the protection of the state?
Essays & reportage
Citizenship elegy
Antje Missbach
31 July 2018
A social scientist goes in search of an elusive Australian passport
National affairs
The department of perverse effects
Peter Mares
16 June 2017
The government’s toughening of citizenship rules would worsen the problems it seeks to tackle
National affairs
Counting the Not Quite Australians
Peter Mares
16 June 2017
New data reveals a growing group of long-term temporary migrants
National affairs
Who gets to be Australian?
Peter Mares
22 February 2016
New Zealanders living in Australia have been given a new way of becoming citizens. But as
Peter Mares
reports, only some of them stand to benefit
National affairs
Citizenship by the booklet
Kerry Ryan
5 March 2013
Like Australia, Britain decided to make it harder for new arrivals to become citizens.
Kerry Ryan
looks at the mixed results
Essays & reportage
Citizenship for beginners
Kerry Ryan
16 April 2012
The Howard government made it harder for some nationalities to become citizens, and Labor has made it worse, writes
Kerry Ryan
Correspondents
Life in the UK: the exam
Ian Henderson
18 February 2011
In London,
Ian Henderson
finds that Britain’s migration test reveals more about its authors than they would ever have anticipated