{"id":889,"date":"2007-10-13T01:25:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2007-10-13T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T15:29:08","slug":"australian-citizenship-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Australian Citizenship Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>By way of honouring a great Australian tradition, the following was stolen from someone and somewhere else, I&#8217;m not sorry, and I&#8217;m not going to apologise&#8230;<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THE FAIR DINKUM AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP EXAMINATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizenship.gov.au\/test\/index.htm\">Australian Citizenship Test<\/a> is:<\/p>\n<p>A) Played on Boxing Day<br \/>\nB) A cynical attempt by the Australian Government to show they can filter out international terrorists and not workers with low levels of proficiency in English<br \/>\nC) Free with every pot and parma<br \/>\nD) A good idea<\/p>\n<p>2) Australia&#8217;s first Prime Minister Edmund Barton famously said:<\/p>\n<p>A) &#8220;The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman&#8221;<br \/>\nB) &#8220;Why must they insist on calling me Toby Tosspot!&#8221;<br \/>\nC) &#8220;I just don&#8217;t know about letting Queensland join&#8221;<br \/>\nD) &#8220;You know what I think Australia needs? 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I mean I&#8217;m talking giant prawns and sheep and bananas and rocking horses&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3) The past two hundred years of Australia&#8217;s history are:<\/p>\n<p>A) A specialised narrative that if told right gets you on the ABC Board<br \/>\nB) An unfinished war<br \/>\nC) Super chillaxed, like one big BBQ<br \/>\nD) Not something we really need to think about<\/p>\n<p>4) Immigration minister Kevin Andrews&#8217; comments about cutting African refugee numbers was:<\/p>\n<p>A) A sensitive, well-measured response to the death of a young man<br \/>\nB) Based on the UN refugee agency advice<br \/>\nC) An unusual example of the Liberals using race politics in the lead up to an election<br \/>\nD) Strange because we don&#8217;t let Africans into Australia do we?<\/p>\n<p>5) Apartheid was first introduced in:<\/p>\n<p>A) Australia with the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundingdocs.gov.au\/item.asp?sdID=54\">Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897<\/a><\/em> (Qld)<br \/>\nB) South Africa in 1913 with the <em>Land Act<\/em><br \/>\nC) 2005 Cronulla<br \/>\nD) 2007 Northern Territory<\/p>\n<p>6) The 72 Tamil and 7 Burmese refugees currently incarcerated on Nauru show that:<\/p>\n<p>A) We have come a long way since Edmund Barton<br \/>\nB) We are a compassionate and flexible county<br \/>\nC) It helps to be a white Zimbabwean farmer if you&#8217;re seeking asylum in Australia<br \/>\nD) Anybody want some zinc cream?<\/p>\n<p>7) Who wrote the Australian national anthem?<\/p>\n<ul><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wIzS8CUOgY4\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of honouring a great Australian tradition, the following was stolen from someone and somewhere else, I&#8217;m not sorry, and I&#8217;m not going to apologise&#8230; THE FAIR DINKUM AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP EXAMINATION 1) The Australian Citizenship Test is: A) Played &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=889\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-el","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}