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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Police backed by military support will arrive in Australian Aboriginal communities within days as part of a controversial plan to end child sex abuse, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
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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 demand new citizens   pass an English language test and sign up to undefined   Australian values, Prime Minister John Howard said on Friday,   but denied any racist overtones in the coming policy.
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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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The Australian soccer team will play host nation Germany in the first round of next year&#39;s Confederations Cup. Australia has been drawn in Group A alongside Germany, Tunisia and Argentina.
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Australia plans to strengthen its  coastal security with a controversial surveillance footprint  that stretches south of New Zealand to north of Indonesia.
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Thousands of children across Australia are to be weighed, measured and interviewed about their diet under a national plan to tackle obesity, the government said.
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Â· Leaked documents show starting date of 2012  Â· Pilot plan for foreign nationals to start this year
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Free English lessons will be targeted at migrants who are poor or socially excluded, under government proposals.
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Australian opposition parties yesterday backed a call for Australian Prime Minister John Howard to take a lie detector test in the wake of allegations he knowingly made false statements about asylum seekers ahead of 2001 elections.
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Australia's highest-profile family of asylum seekers are to be deported to Pakistan, ending a four-year battle for asylum, a government spokesman said.
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The British 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.
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THE Australian Government may try to bring those behind the Bali bombings to Australia for trial if they avoid jail time in Indonesia.
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Australia will demand new citizens  pass an English language test and sign up to undefined  Australian values, Prime Minister John Howard said on Friday,  but denied any racist overtones in the coming policy.
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Australia is to review its citizenship test after figures showed about 10% of applicants were failing.
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Australian airline Qantas unveils plans to open a pilot training unit to meet demand in the Asia Pacific region.