It appears that Home Affairs has been sitting on Citizenship Applications hoping hope against hope that the foreshadowed changes to the Citizenship Act will eventually make its way across the line.
It appears that the backlog is now running at 120,000 unresolved applications. (as at April 2017)
...
I am happy to announce a new initiative, in conjunction with Legal Training Australia, Migration Alliance and Christopher Levingston and Associates to provide expert, professional and independent advice to both RMAs and their clients in respect of any adverse decision at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).
I have set up a dedicated website:
...
Dear Colleagues,
I want to invite you to come to the MA conference which is being held at Westpac- The Arena, Level 1, Tower 2, Barangaroo, Sydney 2000 on 21 July 2017.
I have negotiated a special deal for all of my regular CPD attendees ( all 40 of you) to pay $1 for 3 CPD Conference points.
...
The now failed proposal to permit the extradition of PRC nationals and others to the PRC is a step in the right direction.
The PRC is a totalitarian state who is in a relationship with a democracy ( Australia) that enjoys the rule of law.
This is in contrast to the position of the citizens of the PRC who do not enjoy the fundamental rights and protections available to Australian citizens.
...
The announcement on the weekend that the Liberals in WA were going to direct their preferences to One Nation as opposed to their "natural" allies the Nationals, is but one hick up ( pardon the pun) on the road to oblivion apparently being raced down by the Federal Liberal Party. It reminds me of the Talking Heads song "Road to NoWhere".
This is hot on the heels of the defection of Corey Bernardi and his foreshadowed new "Conservative Party"
Reading the Sydney Morning Herald this morning at page 4 , Senator Bernardi distanced himself from the comments of Ross Cameron and Larry Pickering at a "Q Society" fund raiser.
...
Login / Join
