Posted by Sigismund on July 13, 2009, at 14:46:15
In reply to Police seize flag flown upside down in protest, posted by gardenergirl on July 13, 2009, at 11:09:36
One of John Howard's namy contributions to the moral health of Australians was to provide funding for flagpoles on which the flag could be hung. He was probably thinking of what we used to say when I was a kid with hand on heart
'I am an Australian
I love my country
I salute the flag
I honour the Queen
I will obey the laws',and he also brought in citizenship tests on the important facts of Australian life, one of which IIRC was about Donald Bradman.
This was not very good entertainment compared to the questions in such tests in the 30s, one of which was
'If friends come round to see you in Australia, it is customary to offer them
a) Beer
b) Wine
C) Tea'
Anyone suggesting b) was sent off to a re-education camp, although since we could test people in the language of our choice we rarely had any difficulties. Some of those central European linguists were a challenge, but not so many of them could perform the test in Mongolian or Basque.
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