Australia plans immigrant tests
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Australia plans to strengthen immigration law with tough tests on language and culture.
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Australia, which is already training the new Iraqi police and military forces, has been asked to help train Iraq's intelligence and security officers.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard   has called on migrants, particularly Muslims, to integrate into   Australian society by quickly learning English -- sparking   warnings his comments may lead to race riots.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has denied his plans to make would-be citizens pass tests heralded a return of the country's discriminatory immigration policy of decades gone by.
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Australia will issue its first formal apology to the countryâs indigenous people.
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Australia is moving toward having the region&#39;s most advanced missile strike capability, but the plan has prompted concerns in a region where the country
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Australia will review its citizenship test only six months after its introduction, in part because of its emphasis on past sporting heroes, Immigration Minister Chris Evans said Tuesday.
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The government is planning to announce an election pledge on immigration to hit back at the Conservatives.
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Australia hope to add friendlies against the United States and Mexico to their busy playing schedule for 2007.
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Australia's state of Victoria launches random drug tests for drivers in a bid to cut drug-related road deaths.
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AUSTRALIA will open specialist bomb centres in south east Asian cities and set up flying squads of federal police to foil terrorist attacks across the region under plans unveiled by Prime Minister Mr John Howard yesterday.
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Skipper Ricky Ponting will join the Australian squad in India and is expected to play the fourth cricket Test after medical scans yesterday confirmed his injured thumb had almost healed.
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Migrants to Australia would have to pass an English language test to prove they were &quot;fair dinkum&quot; (genuine) about fitting into society Down Under, Prime Minister John Howard has said.
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Prime Minister John Howard said an inquiry would be held into how a mentally-ill Australian woman was wrongly detained as an illegal immigrant for 10 months simply because she spoke German.
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Pauline Hanson, whose anti-immigration stance won her a parliamentary seat in 1996, will stand as an independent candidate at next month&#39;s national election.
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Authorities unveiled 100 new questions immigrants will have to study to become American citizens.
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Britain's main opposition Conservative party promised to test immigrants from outside the European Union (EU) for HIV, tuberculosis and other diseases if it wins elections expected in May.