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Last updated on July 16th, 2017 at 09:55 am
Australia’s new citizenship test – an “an insurmountable barrier to citizenship” according to Democrat Lyn Allison – proves surprisingly easy.
I passed the Canadian test, without studying. I would imagine that most commenters here can pass it without doing any swotting up on Canada.
http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2007 10 01 at 10:31 AM • permalink
I only got 60%. Who is the Queen of Canada anyway??
I did know that most bilingual Canadians lived in Quebec though…..all those Frenchy names that play for the Habs!!!!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 11:10 AM • permalink
#2 Steve!!! I thought you were serious until I got to:
29. List three ways in which you can protect the environment.
a. Work near where you live, drive to work, take a taxi.
b. Use unleaded gas, drive a small car, travel by yourself.
c. Compost and recycle, conserve energy and water, walk or join a car pool.
d. Pour solvents down storm drains, leave taps running, leave lights on.
We have a friend who was born Armenian, and is a happy Australian citizen. He is one of the finest weather forecasting technologists in the country, always does our weather stuff when we go to sea. He didn’t have to pass a test back when, but he would’ve. Lovely bloke.
The Vietnamese couple on the trawler in the pen near where our boat is tied up probably wouldn’t have passed the knowledge test when they arrived, but they’re nice too, and are proud Aussies, hard workers. Have been here since 1984.
I won’t go into all the others, the Italians, Greeks, Maltese, French, Czech, Yugo, Poles Lithuanians, Estonians, Germans, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Malaysian, more….very polyglot, this place for a very compact town. We have a very small islamic presence.
I’m certain all would have passed the citizenship test with flying colours. They’re mostly all citizens now. But the Sudanese do seeme to be struggling.
I do believe integration is the secret of a happy country.
Ha, just got a perfect score and heard the national anthem. Of course I got the perfect score because I actually KNEW the national anthem…..see, being a hockey fan is good for something after all!!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 11:23 AM • permalink
I’m waiting to be asked what a toonie, a loonie or a tooque(sp) is!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 11:29 AM • permalink
I just found the correct spelling!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 11:30 AM • permalink
Surprising, considering I lived in Italy for 11 years, Canada for 6 months, then Australia for the rest.
I thought I knew more about Canada though.
(Please, excuse my earlier smugness. Put it down to tiredness or some other excuse. Email me cheque details, they’ll be in the mail in the morning.)
Here’s an American Civic Literacy Test. I scored 93%. My wife, who has little interest in politics, political philosophy, et al, scored 85%.
That beats the top students at Yale (65%) and Harvard (69%). College students in general scored a little over 50%. That’s shameful.
How can academics be so anti-American when they’re so pig ignorant of their own country? Oh, wait…
I took the on-line 5-question sample Australian Citizenship Exam, and got 5 out of 5 right. Not bad for a Florida cracker. I give this site credit for my getting the question about the Wattle right, because of a poem that was quoted on a recent thread:
This is the Wattle
the emblem of our land
you can stick it in a bottle
or hold it in your hand
Our new naturalization test is embarrassingly easy. Here it is, with answers (warning: PDF file).
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 10 01 at 04:16 PM • permalink
The Canadian citizenship test as seen by me…
Who are the Habs?
Who is Rocket Richard? (one bonus point if you know who he played for)
How do you pronounce Patrick Roy?
Who is Lord Stanley?
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 05:54 PM • permalink
- Loon Allison says the test is an “assault on democracy”. Where is the “democratic right” to become a citizen of the country of your choice? And coming to you live, direct from padded cell #37:
The un-Australian koala
SBS ran a surprisingly positive report on the test, complete with plenty of happy applicants voicing opinions about the need to fit in to one’s new country. Ouch. ABC news, on the other hand, ran a purely editorial piece: unable to find any actual immigrants to bag the test, they had to fall back on the usual salaried whingers. The contrast between between the immigrants and the people who supposedly represent them was stark and instructive.
- Loony Lyn Allison says the test shouldn’t ask if, in an emergency, the citizen should fight for Australia.
Lyn thinks in the modern world pacifism is a great national trait and military spending is evil.
Lyn has one thing in common with Howard –optimism – she rejects the polls saying her candidates are all doomed – in her case because of thinking like hers..
We’re getting our first Tim Horton’s here. (I live in Michigan, about an hour and a half from the border) Very much like our Dunkin’ Donuts, they used to call them “munchkins” (try not to go to far with the imagination) and correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Tim Horton also an NHL hockey player??
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 07:29 PM • permalink
#13. I scored 66%. I would hope to do a lot better if I actually studied American Civics.
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2007 10 01 at 08:04 PM • permalink
yikes, didn’t know he was dead…….that makes timbits, well…you nailed it…..morbid.
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 09:12 PM • permalink
Welcome aboard…..although these days you’d better know who Cesar Chavez is too….
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 10 01 at 10:18 PM • permalink
- 19 out of 20 on the Canada Test – got the population wrong. Is there really that many of the bastards?
Even if this does make me eligible to be a canuck I’m not moving. The sunny NSW north coast is where I belong.
And Lyn Allison? Among the last of her kind, extinction should be complete by Christmas.
42. What does the Canadian flag look like?
b. Red and white with a beaver.Hmmmm. That’s certainly ambiguous, isn’t it.
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 10 02 at 06:13 AM • permalink
Okay, I did 80 questions on the Canada test and only got 58.4%, but so many of the questions looked more like multiple choice ones.
As for Lynn Allison. Apparently our history (according to John HoWARd) consists of explorers, diggers and something else, and it masculine and conservative.
Hmmmm. Let’s see.
Hume, Hovell, Major Mitchell, Burke and Wills, Flinders off the top of my head.
I don’t recall them taking any women along on their journeys.
Also, if the explorers didn’t, you know, explore we’d no doubt be hugging the coastline after having wiped out the aboriginals who lived nearby.
We wouldn’t have Crocodile Dundee, nor Kakadu and we’d not know about Ayers Rock. (Yeah, I know, I should call it Uluru. Care factor: GAF)
I’m surprised she didn’t point out the remarkable contributions of the criminal underclass of bushrangers like Ben Hall, for example (sick of Ned Kelly and allegedly related to some relative of Hall’s).
The input of indigenous australians and women has been shamefully omitted, and we need to get some balance back in politics.
Lynn, Lynn, Lynn. The only reason you feel balanced is because you’ve got a chip on each shoulder.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 10 02 at 06:31 AM • permalink
Just because it’s easy for you and me doesn’t mean it will be easy for Lyn Allison. She is a Democrat, after all.