New citizenship test

[Zoltan Bertok]

"I want people applying to Australian citizenship to know things such as under Australia's domestic law, domestic violence is illegal, that you're not entitled to hit women in Australia," Senator Evans said.

"That seems to me to be much more relevant than understanding whether Don, whether Walter Lindrum, was good at billiards."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26089616-2702,00.html

[Susan Wareham McGrath]

Hi Zoltan

We think alike - I blogged this on a couple of sites yesterday:

NEW CITIZENSHIP TEST – A LONG OVERDUE CHANGE

From Monday 21 September, Australia’s citizenship test will move from testing applicants’ knowledge of Australian triva, to becoming a serious test of their understanding of the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship.

META believes this a long overdue change - at last DIAC is acknowledging that citizenship is a serious matter.

While Australia is undoubtedly fond of its sport, to have sports-related; and other, general knowledge questions included in a serious citizenship test was an unncessary and failed experiment of the Howard government – and the current government is to be commended for dispensing with them.

For more information about the changes, please refer to our News page.

Cheers
S

[pio2]

It needs to be about the citizenship responsiblities but I do think also about the countries history. I want to know about where I am living adn I sure found out a lot whilst swotting for the test