Immigration minister Peter Dutton suggests a new citizenship test for Australian arrivals. At the Daily Telegraph, Rowan Dean is happy to assist.
Any legitimate future Australian citizen should be able to complete the Dean test:
When you’re forced to take your girlfriend clothes shopping, do you:
- a) Smile patiently while she tries on the fiftieth friggin’ dress in Sportsgirl and asks you for the thousandth time if it makes her bum look big
- b) Surreptitiously check out which dress is half price in the sale before telling her it makes her look just like a supermodel
- c) Stone her to death if she dishonours you by exposing any flesh
When you first sign on at Centrelink, do you think it is best to:
- a) Ask if there’s any chance they can find you a job
- b) Inform them that you won’t be coming in anymore because you just found a job
- c) Ask for some more forms for your four wives to fill in as well
When you meet a Jewish person, is it your natural and instinctive response to immediately want to:
- a) Say g’day
- b) Crack a joke about bacon
- c) Stab them
A stubbie is:
- a) A mouth-watering, small brown bottle of icy cold beer
- b) A ridiculous tight-fitting pair of male shorts popular in the 70s
- c) What’s left of the infidel’s arm once you’ve lopped off his hand
Thongs are:
- a) Summer footwear
- b) A sheila’s undies
- c) Strips of leather ideal for lashing sodomisers, apostates, adulteresses, chicks who say they’ve been raped, young girls who refuse to marry the ninety-year old goat-herder up the hill
Which sentence best describes the way you should use the word ‘mate’:
- a) You little ripper, mate
- b) You got be kidding me mate
- c) Hold up this black flag in the window and don’t move mate
Fill in the two missing words. There is no other —- than —-
- a) yoghurt, Yalla
- b) cheese, Bodalla
- c) make up your own
To prove your Australian worthiness, take the full quiz.

