The famed citizenship pop quiz — with questions on Don Bradman and Cathy Freeman — has been scrapped for a test focusing on democracy and Australian law. But don’t fret sports nutes, athletes will get citizenship preferences. Ahem.
Australian citizens
$17 billion is okay, but we’re no world leaders
Peter Costello was back at his fiscal fibbing best yesterday when he unveiled the government’s healthy cash flow for 2007-08 and declared “this would be the strongest fiscal position probably in the developed world”, writes Stephen Mayne.







