> But why 3 years????
>
> To us moving out here (admittedly we have only been here 5 weeks) was
> the start of our new life. We are 100% comitted to becoming
> Australians and were counting down the weeks before we could 'stand up
> and be counted'.
>
> My father is proud to be Australian, he's been a citizen for 22 years.
> He has a flagpole on the garage and I often go out in a morning and am
> proud to raise the Australian flag for him.
>
> Now it would seem I'm going to have to wait 3 years instead of two
> before I can call myself an Australian, until then I'm just another
> Pommy B@$!ard. Doesn't this defeat the object of trying to get people
> to become citizens. What next, raise the requirement to 5 years just
> to make sure you really, really want to become a citizen.
>
> So I can't become a citizen for 3 years but they'll happily take my
> taxes and rates etc, even though I'm not officially an Australian! :(
>
> Am I alone in feeling this annoyed about this announcement?
No, you're not alone - see some of the other threads on the subject!
Lots of letters wining their way to MPs etc as we speak....
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