Just to throw some petrol on the fire.

Someone up the page was suggesting that testing immigrants was unfair because those who acquired citizenship by birth right were subjected to no such test and some moron (who we could all point at but who can remain nameless) even grossly exaggerated the rates of illiteracy to underscore what was a fatuous point in the first place.

However, despite the expectations we all have to universal suffrage, maybe we could step back and consider this.

We are presently one of the few places in the world which makes attending the ballot station compulsory.

To address the inequity of making English a test for immigrants wishing to acquire citizenship, should we possibly consider making tests of English, Australian Constitution and Australian parliamentary processes a requirement for anyone wishing to register to vote?

Certainly it would likely reduce the number of ambiguous and spoilt votes. It would stop little old Ladies of several ethnic minoritiews being told where they must vote by their more autocratic family members.

I am merely floating an idea... and invite all to respond

No cultural linkage with Islam?

How long far ago indigenous heads stopped being demolished MECHANICALLY to spare bullets?

A hatred to non-belonging to an Anglo-Celtic-Saxon tribe and hypocrisy that is an above mentioned passive election right of foreigners-the UK subjects being in-titled in Australia for are among the most obvious common futures between local xenophobic majority and Islamists.