The latest attempt to make it harder to become an Australian citizen comes as the government spends nine million dollars employing more staff to deal with a citizenship application backlog of hundreds of thousands.
In April 2017, then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced a citizenship crackdown, sparking a flurry of new applications.
But applications were frozen as the department waited for new eligibility criteria, including a more stringent English test, to come into effect
The reforms failed to pass the Senate, leaving a backlog over 240,000 citizenship applicants by the mid-2018 - more than double the 2017 waiting list.
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