Take note, Islamic supremacists and victimology pushers:
Mr Turnbull conceded that practices such as genital mutilation and forced marriage are already illegal, but said questions on such matters in the new test were necessary to reinforce Australian values.
“Are you proud of our Australian values? Are you a proud Australian? You should stand up for it. You should stand up for those values and that’s what we’re doing,” he told a journalist.
Australia is simply abiding by its constitution and principles. This should be a requirement for every Western nation. Let’s also hope that all “Islamophobia” shaming — which Australia has not escaped — is cut off at the knees, and Muslims treated in the same way as is every other group.
“Citizenship changes revealed: Fluent English, four years of residency, Australian values”, by Rachel Baxendale, The Australian, April 20, 2017:
Prospective Australian citizens will need to have fluent English, four years of residency, Australian values, and a demonstrated capacity to integrate as part of an overhaul of the citizenship test announced by the Turnbull government this morning.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says there is “no more important title in our democracy than ‘Australian citizen’, and the institution of citizenship must reflect Australian values.
“We’re not defined by race or religion or culture, as many other nations are,” he said.
“We’re defined by commitment to common values, political values, the rule of law, democracy, freedom, mutual respect, equality for men and women … and our citizenship process should reflect that.”
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the government made no apologies for wanting new Australian citizens to integrate.
“We want people to be able to send their kids to school, to take advantage of a great education system,” he said.
“We want people to be able to work if they’re of working age and to make sure that if they have a capacity to work, they’re contributing and not leading a life on welfare.
Mr Dutton outlined the four key aspects of the overhaul:
• The current residency requirement to be eligible for citizenship will increase from 12 months to four years;
• Applicants will be required to pass an English language test equivalent to IELTS level 6 equivalent, or a “competent” English language proficiency level;
• The government will make changes to the pledge of Australian citizenship and add questions to the current test aimed at cracking down on inappropriate attitudes on issues such as violence against women, child and forced marriage, female genital mutilation, etc;
• Applicants must provide evidence of integration including employment, tax payments and schooling for children;
Mr Dutton said the government would consult around the changes to questions and pledge and the values requirements between now and June 1.
Test attempts limited
The new requirements will also limit the number of times an applicant can fail the citizenship test to three (at present there is no limit), and introduce an automatic fail for applicants who cheat during the test.
Mr Dutton said the current multiple-choice test was essentially a civics test, that asked questions of people.
“What we’re saying is that we want people to demonstrate the fact that they have, if they’re of working age, that they have worked over that period of four years, that they have sent their children to school,” he said.
“We would ask questions for example, as we’re seeing in Melbourne at the moment, if kids are roaming the street at night as part of gangs in the apex gangs or elsewhere in cities like Melbourne, whether or not that is adopting an Australian value. Clearly it’s not.
The Immigration Minister said he believed there was a deficiency in the way the current test was applied, and said the new test would work alongside current laws to crack down inappropriate conduct.
“For example, a perpetrator of domestic violence,” he said.
“My view is that that person shouldn’t become an Australian citizen. We can ask that question but we can also undertake our own checks in relation to police checks or whatever the case might be. So that’s how you can adopt, apply the test.”
Mr Dutton said there were currently criminal background checks for applicants, but the current checks were “clearly insufficient”.
Mr Turnbull conceded that practices such as genital mutilation and forced marriage are already illegal, but said questions on such matters in the new test were necessary to reinforce Australian values.
“Are you proud of our Australian values? Are you a proud Australian? You should stand up for it. You should stand up for those values and that’s what we’re doing,” he told a journalist.
“You see if we believe that respect for women and respect for women and children and saying no to violence against women and children, if we believe that that is an Australian value and it is and every one of you does believe that, then why should that not be made a key part, a fundamental part, a very prominent part, of our process to be an Australian citizen?
“Why should the test simply be a checklist of civic questions, all very important, about the parliament and how many senators there are from each state. These are all important things to know, no doubt, but fundamentally, the values which bind us together are those ones of respect, the rule of law, commitment to freedom, democracy, these are the key elements in our Australian identity and our citizenship should reflect this.”
Mr Turnbull said members of the Labor Party were criticising the proposition that prospective citizens should have competent English.
“Really? Are they serious?” he said.
“I mean does anybody doubt that if you want to succeed, if you want to even have a chance of succeeding in Australia, you need to be able to speak English?
“It is the single best thing any person coming to this country can do is learn English and that’s why Peter’s department put such a big effort into it.”
Mr Dutton said people would lie on the new citizenship test in relation to issues such as domestic violence.
“I mean they lie now in relation to citizenship tests and in relationship to laws that exist now,” he said.
“That is not an argument for us to do nothing in this space.
“Domestic violence is a significant issue in this country, and we shouldn’t tolerate one instance of it, and the fact that somebody might fudge an answer on a test or an application is no argument against us asking people if you want to become an Australian citizen, abide by our laws and our norms.
“If somebody lies in an application, if they are fraudulent in their application for Australian citizenship, there is an existing power under the act in certain circumstances to revoke that citizenship.”
Mr Turnbull said the government would be briefing the Opposition and crossbench about the new laws “today or as soon as possible”, subject to their availaibility.
‘No shame in Australian values’
Earlier, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says he doesn’t think Australians should be ashamed of saying that we want people granted Australian citizenship to abide by Australian laws and values.
“I don’t think we should be ashamed of saying that we want people who are going to abide by the law, people who are going to pick up Australian values, still honour their heritage, but when you’re in Australia you abide by Australian laws, you abide by our values,” Mr Dutton said this morning.
“At the same time we want people to honour and respect their heritage and their culture, the country from which they’ve migrated, but once you’re here and once you seek Australian citizenship we do very clearly want you to be part of our team and we want you to be abiding by laws, we want you to be adopting Australian values and integrating into Australian life.
Asked what he meant by “Australian values”, Mr Dutton said he abhorred domestic violence.
“I think perpetrators of domestic violence or people who would advocate violence against women don’t deserve Australian citizenship,” he said.
“I’ve been very clear about that. I believe that if you have children of school age, every effort should be made to see their regular attendance at school, because part of the opportunity of living in Australia and becoming an Australian and adopting Australian ways is that you take advantage of a great education system, not having kids involved in gang violence, for example, or breaking laws otherwise, so I think it’s an adoption, frankly of common sense.
Asked how a citizenship could police attitudes on domestic violence given people were unlikely to advocate it on a citizenship test, Mr Dutton said the government would continue to work with state and local government authorities to crack down on perpetrators as they currently do.
“There is a test of good character at the moment, and we can look at the evidence available to us,” he said.
“We can look at information that people provide to us. Obviously we can seek information from state and local government authorities in relation to the consideration of an application and that’s the way that these matters are determined.
“There are people that advocate and there are people that perpetrate domestic violence and we have the availability of that information otherwise, whether they’re honest on their test or not, there are other ways that we can work with state authorities to identify those people.”
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the new citizenship would ask a series of questions to highlight inappropriate attitudes.
“I don’t think anyone could seriously defend an attitude that says women are not equal to men, or that violence against women is acceptable, so we’re looking to test attitudes to ensure that people who take out Australian citizenship, and it is a privilege to become an Australian citizen, so it has responsibilities and obligations with it, that they are prepared to embrace the values, the laws, the attitudes that we have as a society that’s made us so successful,” Ms Bishop said…..
Kurt Vogel says
Good for you Australia! Hope parts of Europe, Asia, and Americas will follow in your footsteps.
old white guy says
when they decide that the values of the koran are not Australian values they will be on the right track.
murad says
No it is not good for Aussie. What Turnbull and other similar cowards says is bull dung. The right thing to do is zero muslim immagrants. Once they arrive in Austr. or any other cowardly western spineless country and stay for one year or even one hour they will never get deported. Their numbers are so great now that western cowardice have turned them into lions. We all know that one lion can fight and defeat 200 scary hares. They are coming and they are building their mosques and centres and converting others without hindrance.
Who will dare stop them? pussies.?
Peggy says
They don’t have to be citizens to blow us up.
What about second and third generations? These generations are more dangerous than the refugees. Can we take away a citizenship from someone who was born here?
The only thing it will prevent is some of them from voting. Permanent resident has all rights and privileges as a citizen except that they can’t vote.
If they truly want to keep us safe then they must stop importing trouble.
Rufolino says
Yes Peggy, a recent study in Germany indicated that second and third generations of immigrants are NOT more integrated as German citizens, but more RADICAL in their beliefs than their forebears. The ‘radicalisation problem’ is likely to balloon.
Custos Custodum says
Read closely, this implies that applications are NOT scrutinized carefully PRIOR TO naturalization.
Once granted, citizenship is almost impossible to revoke under any advanced system of law.
Other problems with the proposed citizenship law:
* The waiting period should be much longer, e.g. 10 years. This makes it much more likely that habitual criminality and other problems will actually be discovered.
* There needs to be a waiting period of at least 18 months between the end of the citizenship scrutiny and the actual naturalization.
* Full family relationships including all paternal and maternal cousins etc. should be ascertained BOTH through detailed questionnaires and through cross-referenced DNA testing. This includes family relationships to existing citizens.
* Care must be taken to disperse ethnic groups so as to avoid creating local power bases.
* Initial immigration needs to be regulated much more carefully than is currently the case.
The Confessions says
Mark Latham, a former Opposition Leader in Australia, wrote an excellent article in The Daily Telegraph about the depravity of supposed “moderate” Muslims, like the sharia-loving Yassmin Abdel-Magied who claimed this year that “Islam is the most feminist religion”. I provide the article below since it’s behind a paywall.
And of course, true to form, Abdel-Magied tweeted earlier today in response to the government doing this:
“Hey folks. Someone remind me what Australian values are?”
Well, for one thing, these values are not based on sharia.
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User friendly Muslims can’t hide their outdated message
Mark Latham
April 18, 2017
The Daily Telegraph
IN recent years the ABC, SBS, Fairfax and Channel 10 have promoted Waleed Aly and Yassmin Abdel-Magied as celebrity Muslims, supposedly giving the public a soothing, reasoned understanding of their religion.
But yet again — this time following the release of the Hizb ut-Tahrir video justifying domestic violence — Aly and Abdel-Magied have been caught short.
Instead of calling for the reform of Islam (abandoning fundamentalist parts of the Koran) both have tried to depict the video as an aberration.
Last week they directed their audiences to an old YouTube video of Muslim clerics opposing domestic assault and advising women to seek help. Neither Aly nor Abdel-Magied has criticised the teachings of the Koran or called for any recasting of its text.
This is the core problem with Islam in Australia.
While other religions relying on ancient holy books have modernised to suit our open, pluralistic 21st century society, radical Muslims are locked to a literal reading of the Koran.
This has given them a dated, fundamentalist view of society, particularly concerning women, gays and acts of terrorism.
The problem with the Hizb ut-Tahrir video was not the motivation or accuracy of the two women in it.
They simply offered a valid interpretation of the holy book guiding their beliefs. The problem is the Koran itself.
At Verse 4:34, it teaches its followers that “men are in charge of women” and “good women are therefore obedient”.
For women who might disobey, it is recommended to “admonish them, leave them alone in their sleeping places and beat them”.
There’s not that much doubt as to what that means.
The Koran doubles up as a domestic violence instruction manual. Last week’s video was not an aberration.
In a television interview in February, the prominent Islamic leader Keysar Trad outlined the steps Muslim men should take in dealing with domestic disputes.
First they should try relationship counselling. Then perhaps, bringing home a bunch of flowers or a box of chocolates.
If these two steps fail, according to Trad’s reading of the Koran, men can get physical in sorting things out as a last resort.
Scores of Islamic clerics and TV stars can appear in staged video clips and say they feel sorry for the beaten women, but this doesn’t address the underlying issue.
The text on which Muslims have based their religion is wrong. It encourages intolerance and violence.
It’s incompatible with the values of modern Western society.
Abdel-Magied’s position is particularly interesting.
Two months ago she gained notoriety by declaring on ABC Television that “Islam is (the world’s) most feminist religion”. Amid public dismay about the absurdity of her statement, Abdel-Magied had a Facebook exchange with Wassim Doureihi, a spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir.
She told him: “I am young and willing to learn.” And then asked, “How can I do better in the future?”
Two months later, Hizb ut-Tahrir produced its pro-violence video.
If Abdel-Magied is learning from people like Doureihi, she has lost all credibility in the domestic violence debate.
Even more worryingly the Turnbull government has promoted Abdel-Magied into several important public positions.
Last year, the Department of Foreign Affairs sponsored her on a tour of the Middle East, as a roving ambassador for Australian Islam.
She was also appointed to the board of Our Watch, a government agency created by Julia Gillard to stop domestic violence.
Figure this out: Our Watch, funded by the taxpayer to stop domestic violence, has a board member who has publicly sought advice and instruction from a radical, pro-domestic violence Islamic outfit.
Abdel-Magied is anything but moderate. Sure, she’s young, brash and flamboyant, but her vivacious appearance shouldn’t be the basis by which politicians judge her views.
In promoting her Twitter account, for instance, Abdel-Magied claims to be replicating “the pinpoint accuracy and control” of Malcolm X, the 1960s US black Muslim leader.
Malcolm X was not only an advocate of violence, as part of his “by any means necessary” doctrine. He also believed in black supremacy, urging the racial separation of white and black America. He depicted white people as “devils”. Politically, this is as extreme as it gets.
At September’s Brisbane Writers’ Festival, Abdel-Magied advocated her own form of separatism, arguing that white novelists should not write about black people and white -students should not study indigenous affairs.
This is a new left doctrine of “cultural appropriation”.
Just when we thought Malcolm Turnbull couldn’t be any more spineless in accommodating radical leftists, his government has declared Abdel-Magied to be the Australian female face of moderate Islam.
This is dangerous stuff.
As the international scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali has pointed out, Western ¬nations have been incredibly naive in their promotion of Islamic spokespeople.
They have picked out “moderates”, based on their flashy smile and glamorous style, only to find out later that extreme views are being propagated.
Most likely, Turnbull is so far to the left he quite likes Abdel-Magied and her ideological inspiration, the other Malcolm (X).
As Waleed Aly told Fairfax’s ¬Financial Review in a puff-piece ¬profile on Thursday, we should reject the term “moderate Islam” because “it doesn’t mean anything”.
In Malcolm T’s Australia, that’s at least one thing we can all agree on.
Michael says
thanks for sharing that article, TheConfessions. Very encouraging to see people speaking out directly against Islam, the Koran, and Sharia law — and calling the bluff on the ‘moderate’ Muslims.
Let’s hope Turnbull does what he said in the article posted by Robert here.
The Confessions says
Welcome Michael. Me too, let’s see if Turnbull follows through. He’s proven to be a softie in some respects for sharia-loving types thus far so if he’s a man of his word and knows what’s right, he will see this through.
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murad says
That’s the problem: These softie cowards do not know what wrong and what is right, they do not keep their words, These cowards do not work for their people , they work for anybody and anyone who can put them in office even at that expense of losing their people and nation.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… While other religions relying on ancient holy books have modernised to suit our open, pluralistic 21st century society, radical Muslims are locked to a literal reading of the Koran…”
It’s not radical Muslims but rather Traditional Islam that, as stated above, has remained ‘locked’ into a literal and fundamentalist reading of the Koran.
Benedict says
“They have picked out “moderates”, based on their flashy smile and glamorous style, only to find out later that extreme views are being propagated.” –
We don’t understand anything about Islam, if we don’t understand it as the foremost religion of duplicity. To trust moderate Muslims to reform their religion is letting the fox guard the henhouse trusting the hens will discipline the fox if (that is: when) he misbehaves.
Peggy says
Mark Latham has never been politically correct. Good on him.
Noelene Kuzman says
Please correct me if I am wrong – The problem I have with Turnballs suggestion is that it is a basis for naturalisation. There is no compulsion for a person to be naturalised. It is a choice. Do you think for one minute that they will line up to be naturalised if they have to pass this test? It needs to be as a basis for IMMIGRATION, NOT naturalisation – 2 very different things.
Monty says
I hope this Leopard really has changed his spots and this is not just knee jerk reaction to One Nation and other anti Islam minority parties. It will be interesting to find out what will be done about the Muslim infiltrators who are waging Jihad from within our borders. It’s time those who rail against us and demand Sharia were deported, immediately, with no right of appeal. There are certainly some intelligent and articulate people who realise that Islam is a very real threat. it may surprise some that it is mostly women. It’s perhaps not so surprising when you realise just how much women have to lose.
Michael says
This is very encouraging. A direct stand against Sharia law, without naming Sharia law. And a message: you’re either Australian, or you’re out.
And how about having to actually speak English? Yes, be fluent in the language of the country you say you want to be part of, not destroy.
And you have to work? Well, I like it!
A big ‘yes’ to this.
Peggy says
Yes from me too but will they really enforce it?
Like I said previously, you don’t have to be a citizen to blow us up.
Also, there are plenty of born in Australia Muslims who are worse than their parents.
Matthieu Baudin says
It is a great thing that Christine has brought this very progressive development to our attention. Let us see more of this type of proactive vetting regarding potential immigrants.
The implementation aspect will be the hard part – are failed applicants going to be deported perhaps along with their families or will they be permitted to stay in the country indefinitely as permanent residents; and if so, how will this in any way reduce the burden or threat to the broader citizenry?
Furthermore, it is an improvement to have Female Genital Butchery clearly mentioned in these citizenship tests, but in the meantime, is Australia, like the United Kingdom, France and many other nations, going to continue to avoid pursuing prosecutions against these Child Sexual Abusers/Butchers already resident in the community?
I’m sure the relevant authorities would take action the moment they get an unequivocal signal to proceed from the Federations political leadership – if the Prime Minister were to proceed in this direction then he would be shown to not only be true to his word, but also to be a great reformist figure amongst the Leaders of Democratic Nations.
trish says
Ms Abdel-Magied is typical of a certain type of arrogant young Muslim Australian women. They are either born here or came as young children with parents who presumably had reasons for fleeing their homeland. Australia offered them refuge, a peaceful environment and monetary support. By the way, could that be an Australian value: lending a helping hand to those in need?
These privileged young women typically despise the culture surrounding them. They are educated, economically stable and assert it is their (empowering) choice to wear a hijab. Could this be an Australian value to encourage women and girls to education and the right to speak out in public about their convictions?
Ms Magied’s statement is typical progressive, feminist, Marxist, fascist claptrap. She is implying that entire swathes of the population have no culture, nor any right to a culture. Her own background (Somali-Egyptian) is presumably brimming with centuries of culture. She is also so culturally insensitive that photos of her on a contentious government-funded middle Eastern tour show her wearing, apart from the garish braided turban, a pair of close-fitting pants that many a Western woman respectful of local customs would never have worn while on holiday there..
Ms Magied’s mockery of Australian values, or rather her incredulity that such values exist, is repugnant.
For many years, I taught English to adult migrants and refugees in a generously-funded government program. I remember an Iraqi woman who in class asserted that Australia was a young country with almost no history (implied, no culture), whereas her country was awash with thousands of years of culture, art, history, you name it. As teacher, I could say nothing. I was so grateful that the rest of the class, from 18 different countries, rounded on this woman and informed her that her own country dated from post World War II, and that every person in the room traced their origins to the earliest human beings.
“Tell me again what are Australian values?’. How about the elderly Chinese gentleman who collapsed recently in a shopping mall near me. People rushed to his aid; a shop-owner supplied a chair, several people rang for an ambulance, someone checked his pulse and airways. Others waited to help if needed. No one stole his wallet, which is the first thing that would have happened in many other countries.
One day at the local market, I slipped and fell in the rain, hitting my head. I am an elderly female, but a young man, 30ish, picked me up, gathered the contents of my handbag, escorted me with his hand under my arm to a nearby seat and stayed with me until. I assured him I knew what day it was and who was the prime Minister. Contrast that with the account of a Middle-Eastern father who allowed his daughter to drown rather than have male life savers rescue her. Any hint of values there, Ms Magied?
Newspapers often report thank you letters to Good Samaritans who assist in road accidents, hand in lost wallets untouched, crowd-fund in minutes when a disabled person’s wheelchair is trashed.
But Ms Magied asks to be reminded of what Australian values are/?
Most ignorant person on the planet.
Michael says
Excellent note, trish — thank you.
The Confessions says
Wonderful post Trish – very well said. Thank you.
Peggy says
You said it so well.
Gen Jones says
Lovely post, Trish! Australian values indeed!
And I must add as a fan of Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries that Australian culture is well represented by a 1920s female private detective who brilliantly solves crimes while doing haram things like:
drive (a Hispano Suiza of course)
drink cocktails,
go to jazz clubs,
be an excellent dancer,
buy artwork,
bob her hair,
swim in the ocean in a modern swimming suit,
wear men’s clothes, aka trousers,
work with men – who quite appreciate her smarts,
adopt orphan girls,
chooses her lovers,
Just saying this because the most beautiful and enjoyable pleasures in life that are part of our civilization are considered evil by Islam.
gravenimage says
Yes, Trish–we should defend our civilized values!
gungfugilman says
I want to live in Australia.
Crusades Were Right! says
“At the same time we want people to honour and respect their heritage and their culture…”
Oh dear! There’s the loophole that will be exploited.
A pity the Western governments can’t yet muster the courage to name the “heritage and culture” that should certainly NOT be “honoured”!
JawsV says
This is all an exercise in futility. They’ll just lie.
David, Thailand says
Proudly dumb, and we should expect Aussie leaders to be devastated when they discover the guy who just blew up or shot or mowed down a bunch of innocents actually fibbed when he told Immigration he is not a ihadist and loves Aussie values.
In fact, if past form is anything to go by, the jihadist may well leave politicians and media scratching their heads in wonder as to what could possibly have motivated him. That’s how bright we are!
mortimer says
Almost every workplace has a ‘probation period’ to test the character and values of the person hired. Every nation needs such a period to see if the prospective new citizen will fit in with the culture of the country and enhance it, rather than criticize it, hate it and try to modify backwards in time 14 centuries as Muslims do when they demand SHARIA LAW and its BARBARIC PRACTICES.
All Western countries should ban sharia law as a replacement for or parallel to the country’s civil law.
mortimer says
Barbaric practices: pedophilia, wife-beating, plural marriage, forced marriage, cousin marriage, political assassination have no place in any civilized country.
Such barbarians can live in Berzerkistan.
Michael says
mortimer, I’m really loving Berzerkistan! makes me laugh out loud every time I see that! and you are absolutely right!
Tom says
It is indeed encouraging to see a western nation taking control of their immigration policy and strengthening it by adding a values and more appropriate english language test.
In Canada we have a woman Kelly Leitch who proposed such a test and was pillaried by many, especially our left leaning media and politicians of our Liberal and NDP federal parties, for even suggesting that we need to establish that immigrants should adhere to our Canadian values.
In fact recently our federal politicians of the Liberal, NDP and Green parties voted as a block to endorse a motion M-103 which lays the groundwork for the criminalization of anyone criticizing or discussion anything to do with Islam or muslims.
No such protection is proposed for those of other religions and will exclusively protect muslims in Canada from any criticism.
We have a Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, who appears to literally worship Islam and who has promoted it in many ways, so we aren’t hopeful that Canada will follow in Australia’s wise steps any time soon.
Noel says
So prospective Australian citizens must eschew violence toward women and children? It’s still alright to hit men? We have to remember that Australia is infected with feminism. This article gives a glimmer of hope, but only a glimmer. Overall the country is just as daft as ours are.
JawsV says
Hit men? What, are you joking? And Feminism isn’t an infection. Islam is the infection.
tim gallagher says
Many people here in Australia are saying that lying Muslims will say anything to get into Australia. “Yes, I believe in western democracy, etc” when they want to impose barbaric Sharia law. And of course it’s true. But I suppose this new arrangement is better than nothing.
Turnbull is a soft left character who belongs in the Labor Party or the Greens rather than the Liberal Party. He has always seemed to know nothing about Islam and has spouted the usual rubbish like Islam is a peaceful religion, terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. He outraged many of us when he had a banquet for the Muslim community leaders a while back. Sucking up to them it seemed. Maybe he has actually started to read up on Islam and woken up. Peter Dutton, the Immigration minister, standing on his left in the photo, seems to be wide awake to Islam and I think this new tougher move comes from him. He’s a courageous guy who speaks up strongly. He cuts through the rubbish.
What I think is happening is people are probably emailing and calling in large numbers and telling our politicians that they’ve had a gutful of Islam and the endless trouble it causes and this is forcing even a wimp like Turnbull to wake up and get a bit tougher. Also, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party, which says it will end Muslim immigration, has reached 10% of the vote on recent polls. This is good to see. I’ve been waiting for us to get a strong anti-Muslim party like Wilders’ and Le Pen’s parties.Also, Cory Bernardi, a good strong politician, has left the governing Liberal party and started a new party, the Australian Conservatives, and is very tough on Islam. So I think these developments are forcing even politically correct characters like Turnbull to get a bit tougher. But it is mainly Dutton’s work. He would make a good Prime Minister.
But, of course, this doesn’t go anywhere near far enough. We need to stop any Muslim migration. It’s the only solution to the problems we face. But I suppose we should be somewhat encouraged as our politicians inch towards better policies. They seem to be waking up a bit.
Unknown says
Although it’s not enough but it’s a good start perhaps the others Western nations could follow its path. Follow the rules of their hostages or get out. Simple as that.
Peggy says
US has always had a citizenship test. Has it saved them from getting killed on their own soil?
gravenimage says
Australia implements citizenship changes based on Australian values
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*Good*. A first step.
PKG says
I agree that the immigrants from Europe had to work hard and did not have any of the benefits that migrants and refugees have now. The established migrants of today who are now ageing, have contributed enormously to build Australia into what it is today without a modicum of the advantages that refugees have today.
These migrants, the largest of which are the Greeks and Italians have integrated extremely well without even an inch of the demands and drain to the welfare system that we are experiencing now.
Well said Manos!
Michael says
When they all come in as ‘refugees’ — no need to go to neighboring Middle East countries, of course; their own people, their own culture; no, go far, far away — of course any ‘vetting procedures’ for immigration are tossed aside. Of course they are a tremendous drain on the country they go to — not a ‘host’ country, but a ‘hostage’ country.
They contribute nothing. They take everything. NOT the way immigration is supposed to work … But this isn’t immigration. This is a full-scale assault on democratic countries. Countries are not being flooded with immigrants. They are being attacked with immigrants.
They suck the money and life out of a country, destroy the culture, build mosques (with whose money? Saudi Arabia, anyone?), send out their jihadists. One terrorist act, and yet more of those dwindling resources are drained away.
I mean, Saudi Arabia and imams everywhere must be absolutely gleeful over how it’s all happening. All the powers that be who are behind the destruction of democracy and Christianity. Create wars, ‘destabilize’ governments — I love that phrase — create countless tens of thousands of refugees — and send them across oceans and waters! NOT to their neighboring countries!
Imagine we have civil war here in, let’s say, Washington state! The goal is to destabilize our government! And it succeeds. Suddenly, 100,000 are homeless in the Seattle area, or 200,000. Where do we go?
Idaho? Montana? Oregon? No! We go to … Australia! We go to … Japan! Or Russia!
This is the crazy, absolutely planned out bullshit that is going on. Courtesy of the director of placement, the humanitarian United Nations.
Meredith Jayne says
“Are you proud of our Australian values? Are you a proud Australian? You should stand up for it. You should stand up for those values and that’s what we’re doing” Turnbull declared—how theatrically comical. What a shame the Australian politicians can’t practice what they preach. Although Australians strongly stand up for their rights, values and beliefs and have expressed strong concerns over the serious Islamic threat– the threat to their safety, security and freedom the political Muslim worshippers continue to be dismissive of the Australian people, regardless— the Government continues to flood the country with potential terrorists with another planned intake of 12,000 fake Islamic refugees who are exempt from the stupid citizenship test,– NO QUESTIONS ASKED, no demands to speak the English language, and with no criminal background checks and no extensive health checks conducted other than just checking for a pulse the criminal dregs of failed Islamic nations are routinely dumped into the Australian communities against the objections of the majority while given a free reign to continue to practice Sharia law, spew their hatred for the west and carry on their traditional terrorist activities—-that’s the Governments definition of Australian values and here’s some more—
Shortly after taking over the leadership Turnbull held a tax-payer funded iftar dinner for Islamic hate preachers –being the first Prime Minister to host it. The Muslim worshipping traitor quoted a Quranic verse and Muhammad during his opening speech. –http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/malcolm-turnbull-holds-first-iftar-dinner-for-ramadan-as-a-prime-minister-but-is-teased-on-nbn/news-story/9c2a32084efec897e4da6406dd870661.—while the Government continues to ignore the plight of the 80,000 plus starving homeless, children included, and women who are victims of domestic violence are being turned away from shelters. In mid-2017 the Turnbull Government is cutting off funding for the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness, which funds specialist homelessness programs including women’s shelters. Family violence is the biggest cause of homelessness in Australia and, despite the Turnbull Government’s rhetoric, it is leaving women and their children to face the impossible decision of homelessness or violence,
Turnbull who is worth over 200 million dollars and owns a 50 million dollar mansion is making major cuts to aged and disability pensions, unemployment and parenting payments while he gives companies a 50 billion dollar tax cut and here is some more Australian values–The Government grants and fast tracks visitors visas to Islamic hate preachers with known ties to terrorists endangering public safety and security while courageous freedom fighters such as Geert Wilders who don’t pose a security threat are crucified. And this is how our rotten from the top down Government protects children–CHILD BRIDES FOR OLD MEN UNDER GOVERNMENT VISA PROGRAM— http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/child-brides-for-old-men/news-story/749533a575283c5940d5f45f850d89cc
The Governments stupid divisive Multicultural/diversity rhetoric is rammed down our throats–ad nauseam, Why implement a worldwide failure in Australia? — To destroy the identity of Australians. While the Government claims that it promotes inclusiveness and doesn’t discriminate it singles out the one group of ‘ people ‘–Muslims for special treatment who have been elevated into a special privileged protected class and feted and fussed over by our political Muslim fawners to a bizarre degree taking appeasement to an extreme new level, of course being financially motivated it helps when Arab petro dollars are involved.The Governments pampered Islamic pets have been granted special rights, privileges, immunity, concessions and an endless tax-payer funded cash flow.
For years our political spin masters have regurgitated the same mindless, monotonous ‘ No sharia for Australia ‘ ever rhetoric while at the same supporting, promoting and encouraging the widespread practice of Sharia law. The Government has been actively involved in the development of Islamic Sharia banking /finance and has urged banking/financial institutions to do much more to attract Islamic financial investment while Government officials have traveled extensively to the middle east to promote Australia as Sharia friendly in order to lure cash strapped Islamic investors to our shores. The multi-billion dollar halal export beef industry has created a financial windfall for the Government while other vast changes have been made to Australian laws to accommodate/appease the Muslim minority in compliance with Islamic Sharia law which include changes to taxation laws, race hate/religious vilification laws have been introduced, designed to specifically protect Muslims and intimidate Australians into silence while the Islamic hatemongers are given a free reign to continue to spew their hatred for the Australian people and intimidate them with violent threats virtually unchallenged and unpunished while Australians are threatened with prosecution just for bringing attention to it.—and in keeping with the Muslims disgusting cultural practices the Australian family law act was amended in 2008 to accommodate Muslim men and their multiple wives and children with generous cash benefits included while polygamy remains a criminal offense for everyone else in Australia Muslims are rewarded for having multiple wives.
Muslims have infiltrated educational and banking/financial institutions and Government departments while making outrageous demands to change the Australian way of life–it’s culture, customs and laws and the Government has bent over backwards to accommodate them.— and it has the audacity to preach about Australian values and democracy while they sell us out to Islamic slavery. Impressionable young school children are being fed an unending diet of the evils of Islam, being easier to manipulate and brainwash, facilitating conversion of Australians to Islam–indoctrination rather than education.The Governments master plan is to have us all wearing the Muslims tribal headbags, swearing our allegiance to the Islamic death cult, speaking the Arabic gibberish while chanting our praises to the Muslims mythical moon god Allah.
So ” Australia is simply abiding by its constitution and principles “—-by turning it into another third world Islamic hellhole.The Government is proud of its anti-Australian, anti democratic, pro-Islamic stance. Australian politicians have no allegiance to this country or its citizens whatsoever.The Government has betrayed the Australian people including those who courageously fought and died defending our freedom–Australian Politicians have been working diligently to destroy our freedom and democracy since it conflicts with Sharia law. —- We are Governed by traitors and cowards.
Meredith Jayne says
The Governments definition of Australian values is to have us all live under the boot of Sharia, being the master plan–what a wonderful legacy to hand down to future generations of Australians–if there are any left—Cash laden Arabs are financing the construction of terrorist training and recruitment centres called Mosques everywhere in Australia against the objections of the majority.–the Government is dismissive of the Australian people–We need leaders with backbone who will stand up to the Islamic threat not pander to it.
Are you proud of our Australian values? Are you a proud Australian? You should stand up for it. You should stand up for those values and that’s what we’re doing” Turnbull declared—how theatrically comical. What a shame the Australian politicians can’t practice what they preach. Although Australians strongly stand up for their rights, values and beliefs and have expressed strong concerns over the serious Islamic threat– the threat to their safety, security and freedom the political Muslim worshippers continue to be dismissive of the Australian people, regardless— the Government continues to flood the country with potential terrorists with another planned intake of 12,000 fake Islamic refugees who are exempt from the stupid citizenship test,– NO QUESTIONS ASKED, no demands to speak the English language, and with no criminal background checks and no extensive health checks conducted other than just checking for a pulse the criminal dregs of failed Islamic nations are routinely dumped into the Australian communities against the objections of the majority while given a free reign to continue to practice Sharia law, spew their hatred for the west and carry on their traditional terrorist activities—-that’s the Governments definition of Australian values and here’s some more—
Shortly after taking over the leadership Turnbull held a tax-payer funded iftar dinner for Islamic hate preachers –being the first Prime Minister to host it.The Muslim worshipping traitor quoted a Quranic verse and Muhammad during his opening speech. –http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/malcolm-turnbull-holds-first-iftar-dinner-for-ramadan-as-a-prime-minister-but-is-teased-on-nbn/news-story/9c2a32084efec897e4da6406dd870661.—while the Government continues to ignore the plight of the 80,000 plus starving homeless, children included, and women who are victims of domestic violence are being turned away from shelters. While the Turnbull Government provides an endless cash flow (which includes welfare payments twice the Australian pension rate.) to the Muslim communities— in mid-2017 the Turnbull Government is cutting off funding for the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness, which funds specialist homelessness programs including women’s shelters. Family violence is the biggest cause of homelessness in Australia and, despite the Turnbull Government’s rhetoric, it is leaving women and their children to face the impossible decision of homelessness or violence,
Turnbull who is worth over 200 million dollars and owns a 50 million dollar mansion is making major cuts to aged and disability pensions, unemployment and parenting payments while he gives companies a 50 billion dollar tax cut and here is some more Australian values–The Government grants and fast tracks visitors visas to Islamic hate preachers with known ties to terrorists endangering public safety and security while courageous freedom fighters such as Geert Wilders who don’t pose a security threat are crucified. And this is how our rotten from the top down Government protects children–CHILD BRIDES FOR OLD MEN UNDER GOVERNMENT VISA PROGRAM— http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/child-brides-for-old-men/news-story/749533a575283c5940d5f45f850d89cc
The Governments stupid divisive Multicultural/diversity rhetoric is rammed down our throats–ad nauseam, Why implement a worldwide failure in Australia? — To destroy the identity of Australians. While the Government claims that it promotes inclusiveness and doesn’t discriminate it singles out the one group of ‘ people ‘–Muslims for special treatment who have been elevated into a special privileged protected class and feted and fussed over by our political Muslim fawners to a bizarre degree taking appeasement to an extreme new level, of course being financially motivated it helps when Arab petro dollars are involved.The Governments pampered Islamic pets have been granted special rights, privileges, immunity, concessions and an endless tax-payer funded cash flow.
For years our political spin masters have regurgitated the same mindless, monotonous ‘ No sharia for Australia‘ ever rhetoric while at the same supporting, promoting and encouraging the widespread practice of Sharia law. The Government has been actively involved in the development of Islamic Sharia banking /finance and has urged banking/financial institutions to do much more to attract Islamic financial investment while Government officials have traveled extensively to the middle east to promote Australia as Sharia friendly in order to lure cash laden Islamic investors to our shores. The multi-billion dollar halal export beef industry has created a financial windfall for the Government while other vast changes have been made to Australian laws to accommodate/appease the Muslim minority in compliance with Islamic Sharia law which include changes to taxation laws, race hate/religious vilification laws have been introduced, designed to specifically protect Muslims and intimidate Australians into silence while the Islamic hatemongers are given a free reign to continue to spew their hatred for the Australian people and intimidate them with violent threats virtually unchallenged and unpunished while Australians are threatened with prosecution just for bringing attention to it.—and in keeping with the Muslims disgusting cultural practices the Australian family law act was amended in 2008 to accommodate Muslim men and their multiple wives and children with generous cash benefits included while polygamy remains a criminal offense for everyone else in Australia Muslims are rewarded for having multiple wives.
Muslims have infiltrated educational and banking/financial institutions and Government departments while making outrageous demands to change the Australian way of life–it’s culture, customs and laws and the Government has bent over backwards to accommodate them.— and it has the audacity to preach about Australian values and democracy while they sell us out to Islamic slavery. Impressionable young school children are being fed an unending diet of the evils of Islam, being easier to manipulate and brainwash, facilitating conversion of Australians to Islam–indoctrination rather than education.The Governments master plan is to have us all wearing the Muslims tribal headbags, swearing our allegiance to the Islamic death cult, speaking the Arabic gibberish while chanting our praises to the Muslims mythical moon god Allah.
So ” Australia is simply abiding by its constitution and principles “—-by turning it into another third world Islamic hellhole.The Government is proud of its anti-Australian, anti democratic, pro-Islamic stance. Australian politicians have no allegiance to this country or its citizens whatsoever.The Government has betrayed the Australian people including those who courageously fought and died defending our freedom–Australian Politicians have been working diligently to destroy our freedom and democracy since it conflicts with Sharia law. —- We are Governed by traitors and cowards.