Sunday, 6 April 2014


      

 The Key sentences for the article refugees scared of citizenship test are as following:

1.     A fear of failing Australia's citizenship test is stopping refugees from applying to become citizens, a Victorian ethnic group says.

2.     Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria chairman Sam Afra said refugees, who often had little or no education, feared failing the test and this stopped them from seeking citizenship.

3.     It is created a barrier with these types of people.


4.     The government also said there were fears the level of English used in the test had “crept up” to native speaker level, rather than the basic level supposed to be used.


5.     Afra welcomed the government’s review of the test and said there should be concessions for refugee groups who came from “less fortunate”background or these people would remain stateless.

6.     We are not saying don’t do the test because a lot of people come from better educated, calmer areas, no wars,” he said.

7.     But if you take the big extremes, there is a big gap.