The citizenship test is the test you take when you want to become an Aussie citizen. So I believe, regardless of what visa you come out on, after your two years (or four years now) of PR, you can then apply for citizenship and you take this test and pay lots of money.

Well that's what i thought up until i read this bit:


"The citizenship test is only required for current permanent residents seeking Australian naturalization. Those applying for permanent or provisional visas under family based immigration or through other routes such as the General Skilled Migration program are not required to take the test."

That means what I just put but they worded it in a more confusing way. Going for the visa is completely different from going for citizenship. If you haven't done your two (or four) year PR, don't worry about the test

I couldn't understand what you were trying to say (lol) but i read and re-read the part i quoted and i got it now.
Yes, it is worded confusingly isn't it!
Plenty time for me before i get to that stage!

BTW i just had to google the latin phrase in your Sig. to see what it meant.
True!

It's the only latin I know Learnt it when I was 16 and stuck by it since then

The only latin I can remember is how to conjugate the verb: to carry -
portō, portāmus, portās, portātis, portat, portant.

I know portmanteu - obviously not sure how to spell it though

Perhaps we can become citizens of the Holy Roman Empire !

<snort>

Welease Woger...!

Yes, it is confusing, I had to read that a few times before I got what they meant.....!!

We cant even book our test yet as the place in Bunbury isnt set up....

good article in The Age today:

Online attack on citizenship test
September 25, 2007 - 11:59AM

A five-minute video that mocks the new Australian citizenship test has been posted on the internet by Australian Democrats leader Lyn Allison.

The YouTube video picks holes in the "stupid" test, introduced this month by the Federal Government and backed by a taxpayer-funded advertising blitz.

It's the latest shot in the online battle between political parties that has been a feature of this year's pre-election campaign.

In the clip, Senator Allison says the citizenship test is designed to make Australians feel under attack from migrants and could be a ruse to reintroduce conscription.

One sample test question asks: "Which one of these is a responsibility of every Australian citizen?"

The possible responses are (1) Renounce their citizenship of any other country; (2) Serve in Australian diplomatic missions overseas; or (3) Join with Australians to defend Australia and its way of life, should the need arise.

The correct answer is (3).

"What if I was elderly, or the mother of young children?" Senator Allison says.

"It sounds to me as if the Government wants to reintroduce compulsory military conscription.

"Or perhaps it's just designed to make us feel as though we're under attack, because we all know that when we're afraid, the Government can get away with just about anything."

She disputes the correct answer to another question - that everyone has equality of opportunity.

This was not correct when Australia locked up refugees and its indigenous people had a life expectancy 17 years younger than other Australians, Senator Allison said.

Attacking another of the potential test questions, the Democrats leader said it was ludicrous to deny someone citizenship just because they did not know the golden wattle is the nation's floral emblem, or that Sir Donald Bradman was a great cricketer.

"This is a test designed to exclude people on the basis that they can't memorise answers to some pretty obscure questions," she said.

Under the citizenship testing regime introduced by the Howard Government, people applying for citizenship must correctly answer 12 out of 20 multiple-choice questions about Australia's history, government, geography and traditions.

The test questions, which the government refuses to make public, are based on the contents of a resource booklet put together by the immigration department.

The test comes into effect on October 1.

AAP

true...

must have been taken off youtube... i cant see it

They didn't speak Latin in the Holy Roman Empire as it was a German empire that lasted from the middle ages until the early 19th Century. It was very wittily described by Voltaire as "Neither holy, nor Roman nor an empire."