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| Subject: Deluded OZschwitz Senator: Speaking English an obligation Sat Jan 25, 2014 4:58 pm | |
| As citizenship ceremonies and barbecues fire up across the country for Australia Day, a senior government MP called for migrants to speak English as their main language.
Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, parliamentary secretary for social services and from the Liberals' hard-right faction, told Fairfax Media that speaking English is not only a personal responsibility, it is ''an obligation to our country''.
Senator Fierravanti-Wells spoke no English when she went to kindergarten as a little girl in Wollongong, several years after her Italian parents migrated to Australia.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/speaking-english-an-obligation-senator-fierravanti-wells-20140125-31ffw.html#ixzz2rRxjjwx6 |
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