citizenship

The latest figures show the previous survey’s results were no mere aberration and that student performance in civics and citizenship has remained low.

Department of Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo made it very clear he has no intention of setting new performance targets for processing citizenship applications, as he explained to a Senate committee why he refused to accept an auditor-general’s recommendation.

The Auditor General has criticised Home Affairs for dragging its feet on citizenship processing, but the department refuses to concede.

The government is trying to appear unfazed by the dual-citizenship saga, on the basis of legal advice it refuses to release, but which appears to feature the argument that its embattled ministers didn’t realise they had a foreign allegiance.

No more hiding performance until Senate Estimates … online performance dashboards for digital service delivery are coming to the Commonwealth. The DTO released early prototypes this week as it celebrates a first year.