Andrew EP McAuley (MARN: 1278335) - Senior Agent Mobile: 0416 468 333     andrew@visamakers.com.au
Migration Agent Perth | Visa Makers
  • Home
  • About
  • Visas
    • Skilled Visas >
      • 491 Visa | Skilled Work Regional Provisional
      • 189 Visa | Skilled Independent
      • 190 Visa | Skilled Nominated
      • 489 Visa | Skilled Regional
      • 485 Visa | Temporary Graduate
    • Employer Sponsored Visas >
      • 494 Visa | Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional Provisional
      • 187 Visa | Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS)
      • 186 Visa | Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS)
      • 482 Visa | Temporary Skill Shortage visa (TSS)
      • Kalgoorlie DAMA - Goldfields DAMA
    • Partner Visas >
      • 820 Visa and 801 Visa | Partner (Onshore)
      • 309 Visa and 100 Visa | Partner (Offshore)
      • 300 Visa | Prospective Marriage
    • Parent Visas >
      • 173 Visa and 143 Visa | Contributory Parent
      • 884 Visa and 864 Visa | Contributory Aged Parent
    • Visa Refused or Cancelled
    • Visitor Visa Australia >
      • 408 Visa - Temporary Activity Visa
      • 600 Visa Australia
  • News
  • Consult
  • Assessment
  • Contact Us

Peter Dutton concedes he will need to rethink English test in citizenship overhaul

20/9/2017

0 Comments

 
Nick Xenophon Team signals immigration minister will need to ‘go back to drawing board’ on whole citizenship package if he wants legislation to pass
Picture
 Immigration minister Peter Dutton has signalled he is prepared to negotiate on the government’s citizenship package. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
The immigration minister, Peter Dutton, has admitted he will need to overhaul the English-language test in the government’s citizenship package to have any hope of getting the legislation through the parliament.


But the critical parliamentary powerbroker on the controversial citizenship overhaul, the Nick Xenophon Team, is signalling the rework will need to be more broad-ranging than just the language test.


“There are so many components of this whole package that are a problem,” the NXT senator Stirling Griff told Guardian Australia on Tuesday. “Our position hasn’t changed at all.


“Peter Dutton needs to go back to the drawing board.”


Last week, the Senate gave Dutton four sitting days to put his controversial citizenship bill up for debate, otherwise it would be struck from the notice paper.


The procedural pincer movement in the parliament came less than a week after the Nick Xenophon Team derailed Dutton’s attempt to enact the citizenship package, saying it could not support it in its current form.


The government does not currently have the numbers to get its citizenship overhaul – which has been badged politically as a national security measure – through the parliament.


It has been unclear how the government would respond to the current parliamentary deadlock – whether it would pull the whole package, or negotiate – but Dutton on Tuesday signalled for the first time he was prepared to negotiate.


Asked whether he was prepared to overhaul the English-language test, which currently requires a university standard of language fluency, Dutton told Sky News: “Of course we are flexible.”


The minister said he was talking with Nick Xenophon in an effort to reach a compromise. Dutton described the dialogue with the NXT as “constructive”.


The government needs the NXT bloc because both Labor and the Greens are opposed to the package.

FOR FULL STORY PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW:
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/sep/19/peter-dutton-admits-he-will-need-to-rethink-english-test-in-citizenship-overhaul#img-1

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    May 2022
    April 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    September 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014

    Author

    Andrew EP McAuley
    Registered Migration Agent Perth

    Categories

    All
    Partner Visas
    Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional Visa 494 Visa
    Skilled Work Regional Provisional 491 Visa

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.