SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia plans to raise the bar for handing out citizenships by lengthening the waiting period, adding a new "Australian values" test and raising the standard for English language ...

Recent calls by Opposition Leader Sussan Ley to cut Australia’s intake of migrants have been accompanied by a promised revision — if the coalition is elected — of not only the immigration system, but ...

Australia's Opposition party has proposed tougher migrant screening to ensure newcomers embrace Australian "values", prompting debate about cultural identity testing. TAKE THE TEST Former PM John ...

Political strategist and advisor Yaron Finkelstein claims Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s citizenship focus is consistent ...

The Liberals are flailing about trying to find themselves and now want to apply some nebulous and vaguely defined set of “Australian values” to migrants. I’m not sure if the Tongan, Samoan and Syrian ...

Speaking exclusively to The Sunday Telegraph, the Coalition’s Home Affairs spokesman Jonno Duniam – who is leading policy development work on immigration and population alongside Immigration spokesman ...

The Australian also understands the Coalition is considering using the housing pipeline as a factor in setting its net overseas migration target, although numbers will not be part of the first plank ...

A report tabled in parliament and a crucial Senate crossbench voting bloc indicate any changes may still be a ways from reality. The Turnbull Government's controversial plans to make it harder to ...

What does Australia stand for? I asked a group of young people during the Christmas break, and they struggled to tell me. They seemed confused. Who could blame them?