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The government will release details of its tightened citizenship process this week as it prepares to shepherd the changes through Parliament.
Immigration minister Peter Dutton will be given new powers to personally reject citizenship applications approved by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal if he thinks they run counter to the national interest.
Law Council of Australia president Fiona McLeod said Dutton being given veto power over the tribunal’s rulings was of “grave concern”, while Australian National University law professor Kim Rubenstein said giving individual ministers such sweeping powers put Australia on “a slippery slope to very draconian environments”.
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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper
