I think The Age missed the real story here, but (thanks once again to Semi for pointing this out) it is alluded to in the final paragraph:
Mr Howard this week denied the new Department of Immigration and Citizenship meant multiculturalism was defunct. “I think the title of the new department expresses the desire and the aspiration that … immigrants become Australians.”
Why not just come right out and call it the Department of Immigration, Citizenship and Kuntdom?
Well it made me laugh, anyway.
*sigh*
*returns to drawing board*