The Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Bill 2015 (Bill) has been introduced and undergone its first reading today in the House of Representatives.
The Bill includes measures that:
- provide the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection with the power to revoke the citizenship of dual nationals;
- allow individuals who have not been convicted of terrorist activities to lose their citizenship;
- allow the intelligence services and Government to declare that it is not ‘in the public interest’ to release the information used to strip an individual of their citizenship;
- not allow an individual a forum to dispute the information on which they have been stripped of their citizenship;
- not provide merits review of the decision to revoke the citizenship;
- allow judicial review only of a decision to revoke citizenship ie review of the judicial process not the facts or merits of the case
copy of the proposed Bill is available
here A copy of the Explanatory Memorandum is available
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