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Citizenship As Shared Responsibility

5 items · 3 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 6 May 2026

The Internal Affairs Minister Brooke Van Velden discusses the new citizenship test for migrants, which includes 20 multi-choice questions on democratic rights, laws, and responsibilities, emphasizing that it is designed to ensure migrants understand New Zealand's core values and,

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  • Well, the questions are essentially about our shared responsibilities and privileges of obtaining New Zealand citizenship or, you know, to break it down. obeying New Zealand laws, behaving as a responsible New Zealander and not acting against the interests of New Zealand as well as the privileges of you know getting passports, being able to stand for elections and the rights to live and return to New Zealand. So the questions are, I can't go into detail on the specific questions but I can give you a flavour of them about you know freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, whether or not men and women have have equal rights, whether or not there's protections from discrimination, who can report abuse or violence towards partners, whether or not we have free elections. But they're all good things that ultimately everybody in New Zealand should be proud of and every new migrant to our country should also be proud to uphold. So there's nothing radical in here but I think it's time that in our beautiful little country we actually start being proud of the fundamental basic. Human rights and democratic freedoms that make us so great.
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beehive Government / N-A

a privilege of inclusion and contribution

Citizenship office smashing timeliness targets
11 May
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