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NEDA is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Families, Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) to provide policy advice to the Australian Government and other agencies on national issues affecting people from NESB with disability, their families and carers.  \nNEDA estimates that one in every four people with disability is a person of either first or second generation NESB, representing approximately 1 million people across Australia.  \nI write to provide comments on the Australian Citizenship Test Review. For many people from Non English Speaking Backgrounds, including people with disability, acquiring Australian citizenship is an important step confirming their place within a new home, and committing towards active participation and inclusion within Australian social and political life. In this context, NEDA makes the following comments and recommendations towards improving the process by which permanent Australian residents might attain citizenship.  \n1. The Value of Citizenship  \nNEDA is concerned that currently there is an over-emphasis on ensuring prospective citizens conform to a static vision of “Australian values”, rather than be encouraged to contribute towards the dynamic and changing Australian social fabric , now and into the future.  \nThis is highlighted in the Becoming an Australian Citizen resource, which presents a picture of Australia as nation founded on a consistent and unchanging set of values that have not themselves been shaped by social, political, environmental and cultural change processes: for example, colonization, migration, conflict, environmental degradation and social movements.  \nNew citizens, including people with disability, offer an opportunity to positively change Australian values now and into the future. Given the historic exclusion of people with disability from decision making and social participation, NEDA believes that an expansive and dynamic view of the value of citizenship is necessary to encourage all members of the Australian community to have a role in civil and political life.  \n2. The Current Citizenship Testing Process  \n2.1 The Citizenship Test  \nNEDA is opposed to the citizenship test as it currently stands.  \nIt is not clear to NEDA what the rationale for the current test is, and why it is that new citizens should be subject to a test focused around a set of “values” that are arguably not wholly definitive of what it means to be Australian.  \nFurther, as described below, the test is poorly designed for participation by people with disability: some people with disability are excluded by a formal exemption, while others face barriers in learning and completing the existing test.  \nFinally, it is not clear why residents born to non Australian parents are subject to this test, when arguably – if there is any value to the knowledge that is imparted through the test regime – testing should be part of the learning process for all citizens. In this sense, the test , is discriminatory.  \nApproximately 16.7%(or around 1 in 6 people) fail the test on their first attempt.1  \n2.1 English Language Only Citizenship Testing  \nThe availability of the citizenship test only in English operates as a test of English language competency. A significant proportion of people who fai","cbCait5Fa0T6jHud","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait5Fa0T6jHud","pdf",240669,"English","# NEDA Submission to the Citizenship Test Review Committee\n## The Value of Citizenship\n## The Current Citizenship Testing Process\n### The Citizenship Test\n### English Language Only Citizenship Testing\n### Exemptions on the Basis of Disability","[{\"question\":\"Why does NEDA believe the citizenship test overly emphasizes “Australian values”?\",\"answer\":\"NEDA is concerned the process requires conformity to a static vision of “Australian values” rather than encouraging contributions to Australia’s changing social fabric. 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