Recent calls by Opposition Leader Sussan Ley to cut Australia’s intake of migrants have been accompanied by a promised revision — if the coalition is elected — of not only the immigration system, but the “integrity” of Australia’s citizenship test and its “character test”.
Ley’s comments came in the wake of the case of civil engineer Matthew Gruter, a South African national who moved to Australia in 2022 on a work-sponsored visa.
Gruter’s visa was cancelled, and he is interned in Villawood Detention Centre with one month to leave Australia or be deported following his participation in a neo-Nazi rally in Sydney.
