Seems you have to do a test now, if you want to become an Australian Citizen. There’s a “practise test” on the Citizenship website, I got all the questions right. Which one would hope to do so, really, considering.

To pass the actual test, you need to get 60% correct out of 20 multiple choice questions. There are three questions that it is compulsory to get right to pass. Is it just me that thinks 60% is kind of low for a pass level? It means you know just over half of what they think you should know about Australia in order to call yourself Australian. So it’s not a huge deal if you don’t know that information, but imagine if you considered your doctor’s university exams having the same requirements. You’d not be impressed if to pass they had to know half of what it was considered that they should know in order to safely be able to treat you. (I really, really hope no-one is going to tell me that medical school tests have a pass level of 60%!) I know there’s a vast difference in the importance of knowing what you need to know to be a doctor and knowing what you need to know to be an Australian, but it just still seems like it’s a really low requirement for passing the test.

I’d like for Daniel to become an Australian Citizen, but I am not going to ask him to do it until I know he can do it without having to give up his Danish nationality. At present, Danes can’t purposely obtain another nationality without having to relinquish the Danish one. (Some countries automatically grant people citizenship upon things such as marriage, if that happens to you, you don’t lose your Danish citizenship because you didn’t explicitly seek the new one.) I have read things online that make me hopeful that the Danish law might be revised to allow Danes to hold dual/multiple citizenships. It seems like there is a movement for revision of immigration and nationality laws, and there seems to be some support for the allowing of dual citizenships, so I live in hope.