NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2007/03/25 - Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been accused of yielding to far-right groups who want a ‘white Australia’ after the Australian Senate passed the Australian Citizenship Bill of 2006 recently.

Australia has seen as the biggest revision of immigration laws in nearly 60 years. The Citizenship Bill will make it harder to become an Australian citizen by increasing the number of years immigrants must spend in Australia from two to four before being eligible for citizenship. The Bill also requires a test to evaluate an immigrant's knowledge of English and ‘Australian values’, such as democracy, the rule of law and the equality of men and women.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been accused by some of curtailing to the far-right politics, and of promoting an a ‘white Australia’ immigration policy after the Australian Senate passed the Australian Citizenship Bill of 2006 recently.

Australian Democrats parliamentary leader Senator Lyn Allison said the new legislation is a way for the Prime Minister to demonise immigrants, particularly Muslims, and that many potential citizens will be put off by the tests for language and values.

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