Mateship

Late posting today as I have arrived late to the office after an external meeting…

So does anyone know the definition of “mateship”?  Do you dear reader, have “a sense of what makes Australia tick”?  Can you name all the possible modes of dismissal in a game of cricket??

If so, then you can become an Australian citizen!  If not, you’ll have to remain in your own hell-hole of a civil war torn nation and learn good proper “Australian Values^TM”.

Does any other country in the world do this?  Did Princess Mary have to know how to make Danish strudel and be able to quote the starting eleven for Copenhagen FC?  Did Rupert Murdoch have to know the American Constitution and give a good description on what “American Values” are important?

No… its stupid and racist.

The fact that the national language is English doesn’t mean you have to speak it to reside here.  It is the predominant language, and if you cannot speak it you will struggle, but its not a legal requirement.  I have friends of migrant heritage who’s parents have been here 30 years and still cannot speak English to a “John Howard Acceptable Level”.

The sooner this xenophobic government gets the arse, the better!