Then there was the issue of whether or not the government’s proposed citizenship test would achieve its objectives. We had an extraordinary number of witnesses appear before the committee to say that, no, it would not achieve the objective of improving cohesiveness and that, rather, it was likely to fuel division within our society and undermine existing English language programs.

http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/Repository/Chamber/Hansards/Linked/5596-1.PDF

@Quatrefoil: “The doctrines of privilege in private schools,” eh? Spot on there! Prince Alfred College certainly had plenty of that. Constant reinforcement that you were part of an “elite” and that if you passed you’d automatically gain entrance to The Good Life. It disgusted me — because by and large the students were spoiled, self-centred boorish arseholes.

Except I was a scholarship student, there on my ability rather than through mummy and daddy’s chequebook, so I was constantly reminded that I was not one of the “elite” and didn’t belong. Somehow, though, this farm boy still managed to adopt the “Adelaide private schoolboy accent” known to linguists. Call it “protective camouflage”.