 Citizenship
Test on the Mark to Acknowledge Judeo-Christian
Heritage
Media
Release: Australian Christian Lobby
May 21, 2007
Australia’s
Judeo-Christian heritage has played a key
role in the development of Australian society
and government, and it is only right that
this be acknowledged in the proposed new
citizenship test, according to the Australian
Christian Lobby (ACL).
 ACL
Managing Director Jim Wallace said that
Judeo-Christian values have helped to shape
the nation of Australia and it is important
that this formative influence is acknowledged
by people wishing to become citizens.
“The failure to acknowledge our Judeo-Christian
heritage is a real source of tension in
Australia today as people instead take it
upon themselves to reinvent the basis of
our value system to suit their own agenda,”
Mr Wallace said.
“Critics
are becoming far too ‘politically correct’
if they don’t even want some basic facts
of Australia’s heritage acknowledged.
“If we are to expect immigrants to subscribe
to Australian values it would seem obvious
that they should know where they come from,
on what worldview they are based.”
Mr Wallace said that Australia’s Judeo-Christian
heritage has been integral to the nature
and development of the nation’s very successful
system of government and society and that
this certainly isn’t something to be ashamed
of.
“It is entirely appropriate that a citizenship
test require people to acknowledge the source
of our Australian values, and the Minister
is to be congratulated on having the strength
to include it.”
Contact:
Glynis Quinlan, ACL PR Manager, on 0408
875 979
Email: pr@acl.org.au
Website: www.acl.org.au
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