told the ABC<\/a> they were \u201cnot forcing anyone to give up anything\u201d.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re saying if you want access to the privileges which we believe should be privileges of citizenship, you need to become a citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n
He has said Australia doesn\u2019t control the decisions other countries make on dual citizenship, and has emphasised that the changes will not affect people who already receive support.<\/p>\n
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre called Taylor\u2019s speech \u201cdisgraceful\u201d and said Taylor claiming non-citizens get welfare as soon as they arrive in Australia was a lie that demonised migrants.<\/p>\n
Deepa Chaudhary says it would be an emotional and economic blow to give up her Indian citizenship. Photograph: Charlie Kinross\/The GuardianMigrant scapegoating<\/p>\n
Eric Ma came from China to study at the Australian National University in 2010. A newspaper article on the deadly 2009 bushfires prompted him to study environmental science, which led to a long career \u2013 all while a permanent resident.<\/p>\n
Now that he\u2019s no longer a Chinese citizen, he would have to apply for a visa to visit his parents (China has suspended this visa requirement for the moment, but the suspension is only temporary).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a tough situation, the older people begin to perish \u2026 you can\u2019t wait 26 days for a visa to be issued,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Last year, Ma became an Australian citizen. He now works in the legal sector with people injured in the workplace, and can see the necessity of programs like the NDIS.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Taylor\u2019s grand policy \u2026 shows how tough he is on new migrants, but it does not help anyone,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think politicians across the spectrum need to see migrants as people, as humans.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says politicians often ignore the contribution of migrant communities, who come, work, pay tax, and often bring family wealth with them.<\/p>\n
The Chinese Community Council of Australia says the move came \u201camid a broader trend \u2026 of increasingly negative rhetoric surrounding migration, including narratives that unfairly blame migrants\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Australian Council on Social Services says permanent residents already have to wait four years for payments including jobseeker, the parenting payment and Youth Allowance, and 10 years for disability support and the aged pension.<\/p>\n
\u201cMeanwhile, people seeking asylum are often already cruelly denied work rights and left destitute with no access to income support at all,\u201d says chief executive officer, Cassandra Goldie.<\/p>\n
Anneke van Mosseveld arrived in Australia from the Netherlands in 1971. She is now 79.<\/p>\n
She spent decades completing her doctorate in business history, working as an academic and running her own business.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came here originally as a backpacker, but I soon found work. I\u2019ve been working all my life, paying tax,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
The Netherlands, with some exceptions, does not allow dual citizenship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means I will lose my Dutch government pension, which we get automatically in Holland.\u201d<\/p>\n
That pension, unlike the Australian pension, is not means tested, and she would be eligible for about 20% of it, for her life spent there up until the age of 24.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s quite a lot of money,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
As a permanent resident, she doesn\u2019t have an Australian passport, which means she can\u2019t use some of the Australian Taxation Office\u2019s online functions.<\/p>\n
Taylor has also faced criticism from within his own party. Senator Andrew McLachlan told ABC radio on Tuesday he had \u201cdeep concerns\u201d that the Coalition policy would create \u201ctwo types of members in the community\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re both contributing to the wealth of the nation and one is entitled to certain entitlements, you could have almost a form of a strata-ing of our society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s the Australian way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Deepa Chaudhary\u2019s newborn slept, she used the time to find out what support she could get as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-690242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Factchecking protesters\u2019 claims of \u2018mass migration\u2019 into Australia \u2013 video<\/p>\n