TIMELINE - Citizenship application & Citizenship Ceremony

[zecevi]

zecevi your attitude is appalling - What a pity you passed the Citizenship test as your type of attitude and views are not what Australia needs or wants.

 

It is not MY attitude, nor what I think it should be, it is reality. This country is a plutocracy like most others, the rule of the wealthy. It is all 100% only about money. Democracy, justice and other buzz words are just fluff to justify the rule in the interest of super-wealthy. If you are not useful to the system no one could care less about you. Over 150K people are homeless in this lucky country. Kevin Rudd was replaced the moment he mentioned extra mining tax. Get a grip. All things I am very much against. Australia Ltd. that`s what it is.

`Representatives of the people` are puppets in the hands of Gina Rinehart and others in 1%.

PR is given to people with millions, they don`t even need to speak English. They can have criminal offences and the origin of the money is not questioned.

 

Take a look at the Sydney ghetto: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/09/20/3594298.htm

`Corporate responsibility` and volunteering is marketing of the rich justifying the status quo. Let`s give some free sausages to the poor for Christmas and after go back to our 3 million villas and Audis...

 

Another proof country of Australia ONLY cares about money: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/world/asia/04iht-doctor.1.17504311.html

 

In a country with a serious shortage of doctors, many Australians are perplexed by their government's decision to reject the residency application of a German doctor on the grounds that his son's Down syndrome would place too great a burden on the national health care system. Dr. Bernhard Moeller moved to Australia nearly three years ago after answering an international advertisement seeking a specialist in internal medicine to work in Horsham, a working-class town of 20,000 people in the southern state of Victoria.

Moeller and his wife, Isabella, were looking for a quiet home in a friendly community. But most of all, they wanted a normal life for their 13-year-old son, Lukas, who has Down syndrome.

The couple chose Australia because of its reputation for allowing children with Down syndrome, a chromosomal abnormality that causes varying degrees of intellectual disability, to attend mainstream schools along with their nondisabled peers.

Moeller took a job as the sole internal medicine specialist at the Wimmera Base Hospital, a public hospital that serves around 55,000 people in western Victoria, and the family began settling in. Lukas learned to play cricket and joined an Australian-rules football club.

"We were thinking right from the beginning that if we liked it here, if it worked out well for us, that we would like to stay," Moeller said. "We had a house; I had a good job. We are Germans, so it was a big move, a big change, but we didn't regret it. It was all good."

So good, in fact, that the family decided to apply for permanent residency.

But last month, the Moellers were shocked to discover that their application had been rejected because Lukas did not meet Australia's stringent health requirements.

 

The doctor was given PR ONLY AFTER public opinion protested.

Public opinion has to protest against the ridiculous citizenship process and overall against the rule of the rich.

[zecevi]

To be honest, as an Aussie myself, I'm not too thrilled about the idea of you being granted citizenship eventually, something that you just see as a thing you buy by paying fee, and not seeing that you become part of that country.

 

Why don't you contact the local mp if you really want to change something about the citizenship process? That's how democracy works in australia. But im sure that once you attended the ceremony, you couldn't care less how long people have to wait.

 

Could not care less are you an Aussie or not and what you think. In the rule of law everyone is equal and everyone who satisfies the criteria is given the citizenship. It cannot be any different.

Yes you are sure as you know me personally. But of course.

[ali]

I think that this thread has probably run it's course and veered from the intended OP, so I will close it. Thank you for your contributions and Good luck to all those awaiting citizenship.