Should We Have A Citizenship Test?

The citizenship attempt was introduced by the Australian Government fairly recently. As a western country, Australia is currently the closely recent developed western country to have a citizenship test. However, there is a current debate being held on why is the citizenship test held for and what is the presidential term re exclusivelyy testing?According to the SBS bare-asss site, the Australian Government has now changed some of the content that is to be tested in the citizenship test and states that would-be new Australian citizens will be quizzed on their understanding of their civic duty and responsibilities of citizenship rather than facing questions about Australias sporting heroes as it had previously asked questions about a Australian cricket player, Sir Donald Bradman and other irrelevant information.However, when questioned to why was the citizenship test was even introduced, a minister who appeared on an SBS program called Insight argued that this test was made to tes t slope proficiency of the new Australians. The test was also made to give the new-comers a view on what is it mean to be Australian and what Australian values are? ,while stating all this information in a book that the participants would need to read.In my opinion, I do not think that this is a worthwhile test as a test cant possibly test whether the tidy sum sitting for it actually believe and practice these values but will only test their ability to acquire and learn facts and information out of a book. The test also doesnt use complex English but simple and easy-to-understand words. Therefore if the main point of having the test was to test English proficiency, it would be better to hold an English exam and to be able to apply for citizenship, the person applying would need to have been a unceasing resident and would have needed to sit for an English proficiency test then anyway.This test is also a waste of time as the people sitting the test could use the time that was spen t on taking the test and preparing for it on work and practicing Australian values to help Australias community and economy. We have seen both(prenominal) sides of the argument here and to some others who may feel strongly for or against this issue, we can see that the Australian Government is trying its best to please the raft and that it looks like the citizenship test is here to stay for the long run.