Nearly an Aussie!
May 16th 2008 | 1:31 am
#17
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Re: Nearly an Aussie!
Seeing that I am doing it under protest and only to get a job, I'd rather like a ceremony in the dead of night with no one around at all 
I certainly won't be advertising it, the less people there that know me the better. Don't really see why it has to be a big fuss when some of us would prefer it to be low key. 
I certainly won't be advertising it, the less people there that know me the better. Don't really see why it has to be a big fuss when some of us would prefer it to be low key. 
May 16th 2008 | 2:18 am
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May 16th 2008 | 2:21 am
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From: Perth
Re: Nearly an Aussie!
Did the test today. Passed. Handed over the forms together with permission for them to remove $240 from my account 
. Now the wait for the letter to arrive.
I did ask if I had to go to a big ceremony as I don't do the bells and whistles thing in front of loads of strangers. I asked if I could just rock up to the council offices and say the pledge to some random there but she said no so if anyone is due a ceremony on the Gold Coast in about 4 or 5 months, I guess I'll see you there
. Now the wait for the letter to arrive.I did ask if I had to go to a big ceremony as I don't do the bells and whistles thing in front of loads of strangers. I asked if I could just rock up to the council offices and say the pledge to some random there but she said no
so if anyone is due a ceremony on the Gold Coast in about 4 or 5 months, I guess I'll see you there
May 16th 2008 | 2:27 am
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Re: Nearly an Aussie!
Seeing that I am doing it under protest and only to get a job, I'd rather like a ceremony in the dead of night with no one around at all I certainly won't be advertising it, the less people there that know me the better. Don't really see why it has to be a big fuss when some of us would prefer it to be low key.
I certainly won't be advertising it, the less people there that know me the better. Don't really see why it has to be a big fuss when some of us would prefer it to be low key.
May 16th 2008 | 4:55 am
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Re: Nearly an Aussie!
I'm ambivalent rather than anti, I think. Wasn't going to bother, but the job I really want requires security clearance and I have to have citizenship in order to get that. I am committed to the job, and will do this if I get it, and I'll then do my best for the country. However I don't see making a big fuss about it, I feel that would be hypocritical, as its just a duty I have to do, not something that will bring me any direct pleasure, if that makes sense.
Maybe if I had a family taking the oath with me it might be different, but I don't think it is of any interest to anyone except me, so why make a fuss?
Maybe if I had a family taking the oath with me it might be different, but I don't think it is of any interest to anyone except me, so why make a fuss?
May 16th 2008 | 10:23 am
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Re: Nearly an Aussie!
I'm ambivalent rather than anti, I think. Wasn't going to bother, but the job I really want requires security clearance and I have to have citizenship in order to get that. I am committed to the job, and will do this if I get it, and I'll then do my best for the country. However I don't see making a big fuss about it, I feel that would be hypocritical, as its just a duty I have to do, not something that will bring me any direct pleasure, if that makes sense.
Maybe if I had a family taking the oath with me it might be different, but I don't think it is of any interest to anyone except me, so why make a fuss?
Maybe if I had a family taking the oath with me it might be different, but I don't think it is of any interest to anyone except me, so why make a fuss?
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May 16th 2008 | 10:56 am
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Re: Nearly an Aussie!
Around 1900 colonial and state governments started to implement what policy in regard to Aboriginal people?
1. Encouraging them to integrate into mainstream Australian society [my answer]
Wrong - In the years around 1900 the colonial and state governments moved to a policy of firmly confining Aboriginal people on their reserves or ensuring that they disappeared into the wider society
. You can read more about this on page 33 of Becoming an Australian Citizen for more information
2. Confining Aboriginal people to reserves or ensuring they disappeared into wider society
3. Allowing settlers to employ Aboriginal people
I reading better get
1. Encouraging them to integrate into mainstream Australian society [my answer]
Wrong - In the years around 1900 the colonial and state governments moved to a policy of firmly confining Aboriginal people on their reserves or ensuring that they disappeared into the wider society
. You can read more about this on page 33 of Becoming an Australian Citizen for more information2. Confining Aboriginal people to reserves or ensuring they disappeared into wider society
3. Allowing settlers to employ Aboriginal people
I reading better get
May 16th 2008 | 11:36 am
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Re: Nearly an Aussie!
Did the test today. Passed. Handed over the forms together with permission for them to remove $240 from my account . Now the wait for the letter to arrive.
I did ask if I had to go to a big ceremony as I don't do the bells and whistles thing in front of loads of strangers. I asked if I could just rock up to the council offices and say the pledge to some random there but she said no so if anyone is due a ceremony on the Gold Coast in about 4 or 5 months, I guess I'll see you there
. Now the wait for the letter to arrive.I did ask if I had to go to a big ceremony as I don't do the bells and whistles thing in front of loads of strangers. I asked if I could just rock up to the council offices and say the pledge to some random there but she said no
so if anyone is due a ceremony on the Gold Coast in about 4 or 5 months, I guess I'll see you there Australian's - we shoot, we root, we vote. We are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime. Even though we might seem a racist, closed minded, sports obsessed little people, at least we feel better for it.
I am, you are, we are Australian!
May 16th 2008 | 1:46 pm
#26
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Re: Nearly an Aussie!
Congratulations...Forget the ceremony,repeat after me
Australian's - we shoot, we root, we vote. We are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime. Even though we might seem a racist, closed minded, sports obsessed little people, at least we feel better for it.
I am, you are, we are Australian!
Australian's - we shoot, we root, we vote. We are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime. Even though we might seem a racist, closed minded, sports obsessed little people, at least we feel better for it.
I am, you are, we are Australian!
Can you eat or drink them
May 16th 2008 | 3:17 pm
#27
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Re: Nearly an Aussie!
How long have you been here 
Girt = surrounded. I thought EVERYONE knew that
One of my questions was: As a citizen of Australia, what is one of the most important privileges you would have:
a) The right to own a gun;
b) The right to vote; or
c) The right to go fishing (or something just as inane)
I was very tempted to answer a) but decided I'd rather pass the test
Girt = surrounded. I thought EVERYONE knew that One of my questions was: As a citizen of Australia, what is one of the most important privileges you would have:
a) The right to own a gun;
b) The right to vote; or
c) The right to go fishing (or something just as inane)
I was very tempted to answer a) but decided I'd rather pass the test
May 16th 2008 | 3:24 pm
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From: Carramar, Perth
Re: Nearly an Aussie!
Did the test today. Passed. Handed over the forms together with permission for them to remove $240 from my account . Now the wait for the letter to arrive.
I did ask if I had to go to a big ceremony as I don't do the bells and whistles thing in front of loads of strangers. I asked if I could just rock up to the council offices and say the pledge to some random there but she said no so if anyone is due a ceremony on the Gold Coast in about 4 or 5 months, I guess I'll see you there
. Now the wait for the letter to arrive.I did ask if I had to go to a big ceremony as I don't do the bells and whistles thing in front of loads of strangers. I asked if I could just rock up to the council offices and say the pledge to some random there but she said no
so if anyone is due a ceremony on the Gold Coast in about 4 or 5 months, I guess I'll see you there 
May 16th 2008 | 3:32 pm
#29
no stressin no fussin....
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From: Fantasy Island....
Re: Nearly an Aussie!
How long have you been here Girt = surrounded. I thought EVERYONE knew that
One of my questions was: As a citizen of Australia, what is one of the most important privileges you would have:
a) The right to own a gun;
b) The right to vote; or
c) The right to go fishing (or something just as inane)
I was very tempted to answer a) but decided I'd rather pass the test
Girt = surrounded. I thought EVERYONE knew that One of my questions was: As a citizen of Australia, what is one of the most important privileges you would have:
a) The right to own a gun;
b) The right to vote; or
c) The right to go fishing (or something just as inane)
I was very tempted to answer a) but decided I'd rather pass the test
I thought it would have been
a) The right to take 10 sick days per year
b) The right to have 10 smoko breaks per day
c) The right to buy a slab of piss every Friday arvo
Jeez...those questions were hard
Well done BTW
....now go buy that slab of piss
May 16th 2008 | 3:38 pm
#30
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Re: Nearly an Aussie!
It was a hypothetical question - my attempt at a joke
I thought it would have been
a) The right to take 10 sick days per year
b) The right to have 10 smoko breaks per day
c) The right to buy a slab of piss every Friday arvo
Jeez...those questions were hard
Well done BTW....now go buy that slab of piss
I thought it would have been
a) The right to take 10 sick days per year
b) The right to have 10 smoko breaks per day
c) The right to buy a slab of piss every Friday arvo
Jeez...those questions were hard
Well done BTW
....now go buy that slab of piss- I'm only 'nearly' an Aussie
