{"id":980,"date":"2007-08-28T11:25:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2007-08-28T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:25:28","slug":"oh-ohthis-is-clearly-a-bigoted-and-racist-concept-australia-sets-values-test-for-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/oh-ohthis-is-clearly-a-bigoted-and-racist-concept-australia-sets-values-test-for-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh-Oh…this is clearly a bigoted and racist concept: Australia Sets Values Test for Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia Sets Values Test for Immigrants<\/strong> WHAT!?<\/p>\n

Australia Sets ‘Values’ Test for Prospective Citizens<\/strong>
\nBy Patrick Goodenough
\nCNSNews.com International Editor
\nAugust 27, 2007<\/p>\n

CNSNews.com) – Asserting that Australia has been built on values based on “Judeo-Christian ethics,” Prime Minister John Howard’s government has introduced a new test for would-be citizens.<\/p>\n

The move comes amid concerns about extremist views among some Australian Muslims, and at a time when some small political parties are pushing for immigration — and Muslim immigration in particular — to be on the agenda ahead of elections due later this year.<\/p>\n

Immigrants who have lived in the country as legal residents for four years and want to become citizens will be expected to score at least 60 percent in a test of 20 questions taken randomly from a pool of 200 questions, covering issues ranging from “Australian values” to history, sport and political institutions. The test also gauges whether applicants have a basic grasp of English.<\/p>\n

“Before becoming a citizen it is reasonable to expect that a person will understand the core values that have helped to create a society that is stable yet dynamic, cohesive yet diverse,” Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Andrews at the weekend released a booklet from which the questions will be drawn, outlining values which he said during a press conference were “relatively uncontroversial.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Australia Sets Values Test for Immigrants WHAT!? Australia Sets ‘Values’ Test for Prospective Citizens By Patrick Goodenough CNSNews.com International Editor August 27, 2007 CNSNews.com) – Asserting that Australia has been built on values based on “Judeo-Christian ethics,” Prime Minister John Howard’s government has introduced a new test for would-be citizens. The move comes amid concerns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}