The new test preparation booklet Australian Citizenship: Our Common Bond, while more tempered than its predecessor, still has its problems, writes Kerry Ryan.
Citizenship test
We’d rather win a gold medal than let a doctor in
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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Utegate drives everyone mad
Readers are getting a little tired of Utegate, plus views on alternative medicine, the citizenship test, tasers and more.
A British national takes the Australian citizenship test
Crikey asked recent Australian citizen Laura Gray if there was a Don question on her citizenship test. There wasn’t, but it was an interesting experience.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
By now we all know that there’s precious little the Australian government can do to smooth the mood swings of the international markets. We know that in matters of foreign policy we’re pretty much a bit player, or at best a pawn. But what about sport?
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
The first candidates to sit the Australian Citizenship test will be put through their paces today, 33 aspirants who will be quizzed on various elements of critical Australiana: spell Vegemite, name Tommy Hanlon Jnr’s father etc.
Political bite-sized meaty chunks
Who’s cocky III … Citizenship question … Crikey’s cosmetics correspondent reports … Rob who? … The ugly side of grand final fever.
Failing the Citizenship Test
Excellent. On the basis of the Draft Citizenship Test Resource Book released yesterday I’d fail Australia’s new Citizenship Test. And if a privately-educated 5th-generation Aussie-Anglo like me can’t do it, I reckon few other Australians would pass either, writes Stilgherrian.
