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Immigration and Citizenship (Vol 261)
What are the current key issues in immigration in Australia? More or less migrants? Cultural clash or cohesion? Does the new “citizenship test” promote integration to the exclusion of diversity? What is the future of multiculturalism in Australia?

Australian Bureau of Statistics: www.abs.gov.au

Australian Citizenship: www.citizenship.gov.au

Australian Human Rights Commission: www.humanrights.gov.au

Australian Policy Online: www.apo.org.au

Australian Population Institute Inc: www.apop.com.au

Business Council of Australia: www.bca.com.au

Department of Immigration and Citizenship: www.immi.gov.au

Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia: www.fecca.org.au

On Line Opinion: www.onlineopinion.com.au

Refugee Council of Australia: www.refugeecouncil.org.au

Sustainable Population Australia: www.population.org.au

Australia's System of Government (Vol 283)
Presents an overview of the structure and functions of Australia’s governments, explores voting and
electoral reform issues (e.g lowering voting age, compulsory voting), and includes a range of arguments in the federalism debate.

Australian Bureau of Statistics: www.abs.gov.au

Australian Capital Territory Electoral Commission: www.elections.act.gov.au

Australian Capital Territory Government: www.act.gov.au

Australian Electoral Commission: www.aec.gov.au

Australian Policy Online: www.apo.org.au

Culture and Recreation Portal (Federation page): www.culture.gov.au/articles/federation

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: www.dfat.gov.au/facts/sys_gov.html

Department of the Parliamentary Library: www.aph.gov.au/library

Electoral Council of Australia: www.eca.gov.au

Government in Australia: www.australia.gov.au/govt-in-aust

House of Representatives: www.aph.gov.au/house/index.htm

National Centre for Australian Studies: www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas

On Line Opinion: www.onlineopinion.com.au

Parliament of Australia: www.aph.gov.au

Parliamentary Education Office: www.peo.gov.au

Senate: www.aph.gov.au/Senate/index.htm

The Common Good – Civics & Citizenship Education (ABC): www.abc.net.au/civics

Australian National Identity (Vol 313)

Presents a range of opinions on how the national identity has been shaped through Australian citizenship, symbols and values: multiculturalism, tolerance (a ‘fair go’), national symbols (including the flag debate), British colonial influence, indigenous heritage and dispossession, freedom and democracy (including the Republic debate), egalitarianism, the landscape (beaches and ‘the bush’), mateship, larrikinism, the Anzac spirit, sporting obsession, outdoor lifestyle, our image overseas, and what it means to be ‘un-Australian’.