I’m a little confused with the kerfuffle over the Citizenship English speaking requirements - why are they doing an IELTS test to become citizens? I would have thought this process is done during permanent residency applications?
I’m a PR of Canada and I had to do the IELTS even though I had been brought up and went through a schooling system in an English speaking country like Australia. However we don’t have to do another language test when we apply to become a citizen.
How about the whole song that reflects the ideas in this thread?
Australians all let us rejoyce, For we burnt coal that’s free. Though coal is now proven to wreck, our planet from hot air. You’ll find those arguing with haste, that plants just love the taste! In our next page and every stage, Advance australia coal! Our lungs with soot we’ll try to moot, Australia from new gains!
Did anyone else see the 4 Corners story last night on the Aveo Aged Care corporation? That was outrageous and even if only half true needs to be regulated urgently. Anyone who makes their living by stitching up old people is a disgrace.
Looks like the Greens have got factions too…the watermelon faction of which Lee Rhiannon is the boss and the Avocados of which Di Natale rules the roost.
They increase police numbers, make sentences tougher, tighten bail and parole provisions and all the rest.
The bleeding hearts take the Government to court because they put violent young thugs in Barwon, Civil Rights are somehow infringed because we try to make our society safer, and supporting criminals is more progressive than jailing them.
Across the World drugs are rampant and society is powerless to stop its spread, unless we take the lead fron Duerte in Manila and shoot them all.
If I hear an Opposition in any Government say that if elected they wil go “tough on crime” I think I will scream. Most crime is economic and perhaps finding more jobs for everyone could help, but no Government can stop a violent, apathetic, compassionless thug; the problem starts before birth.
People who are working have much less time to partake in crime.
People who take legal drugs are less likely to need to commit crimes for money to live.
We need jobs for people that pay a decent living wage.
We need to legalise drugs.