The political rhetoric over immigration will further intensify on Monday as David Cameron promises to ban all EU nationals from claiming most benefits after six months in the UK unless they can prove they have been continuously looking for work over that period.
The repeated refusal of GPs, social housing officers and social security staff to act as immigration officers also means that if more robust residence tests are to be introduced for other EU nationals then an easy and authoritative way is needed of checking how long they have been in the country and what their immigration status is.
The president of the Islamic Council of Victoria, Ghaith Krayem, told an anti-racism forum in Melbourne that the federal government's plans to allow the immigration minister to revoke the citizenship of dual nationals found to join or support terrorist groups "would make criminals of people based on suspicion and suspicion alone".
Mexico has called on the US Justice Department to monitor investigations into three US police shootings of Mexican nationals within the past month, arguing that the incidents "cannot be seen in an isolated manner".
Thousands of Saudi nationals have been recruited to its ranks.
A telling example occurred this week in the New South Wales town of Tamworth, in Tony Windsor's old seat of New England, now held by deputy Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, a future Nationals leader.
In Britain, fears were growing over the welfare of several nationals who have not been heard from since the quake struck.
The US government insists it has no firm proof that any American nationals took part in the Westgate attack, but the FBI is thought to be investigating the suspected involvement of al-Shabaab recruits from Somali communities in Minnesota and Maine.
Adam Short of Plan UK says it is "leading the way" among donor countries, and hopes that the government will "step up education efforts in communities to which UK nationals are likely to be taken".
The Liberal party received more than $125m and the Nationals $12m.
Other rights that are automatic for UK nationals, but that residents from other EU countries must pass a "right to reside" test to qualify for are also very easily bypassed by claiming to be self employed.
