History and Governance
1) In what year was the first Northern Territorian elected
to the Australian Parliament?
Answer 1922
2)In what year did all people living in the Northern
Territory lose their representation in the Australian Parliament because South
Australia decided to give us away to the Commonwealth?
Answer 1911
3) Why is Chapter Five of the Australian Constitution
totally irrelevant to everyone living in the Northern
Territory?
Answer Because it is about the rights of the States
4) Who appoints the Administrator of the Northern Territory?
Answer The Governor General
5) Which Australian State decided when it was still a colony to change its name?
Answer Tasmania
6) How many
senators do the States have?
Answer 12
7) What do
Northern Territorians celebrate on 1 July?
Answer
Self Governance
8) Who was
the 13th Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer Stanley
Bruce
9) Gregory
Blaxland, Angus McMillan and Augustus Gregory all did what for Australia?
Answer
Explored or Australian Explorers
10) In what
year did Douglas Mawson’s party reach the South Magnetic Pole?
Answer
1908
2007
Reflection
1) For how
many years did Clare Martin hold the position of Chief Minister before she
resigned on 26 November 2007?
Answer 6
2) How many
sitting Prime Ministers have lost their seat in an election?
Answer 2
3) True or
False – Australia signed the Kyoto Agreement on Climate Change in 2007.
Answer
True
4) How many
Prime Ministers have there been before Kevin Rudd?
Answer 25,
he is the 26th
5) What is
the name of the Katherine Born sports person who, in 2007 scored the highest
Australian ranking ever in the Tour de France?
Answer Cadel
Evans, came 2nd
6) Sisters
Natalie and Laura von Bertouch are members of which 2007 World Championship
Team?
Answer
Australian Netball Team
7) Who was
the 2007 NT Australian of the Year?
Answer Ramajit
Mamarika
8) 2007 NT
Senior Australian of the Year Pat Anderson and Rex Wild were the Authors of
what report?
Answer Ampe
Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle Little
Children are Sacred. – Report of the Northern Territory Board of
Inquiry into the protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse
9) In 2007 Australia
suffered an outbreak of equine influenza. In what year were the first cases of
equine influenza in Australia reported?
Answer
2007
10) True or
False – From 1 October 2007 everyone who applies for Australian Citizenship
must take the Citizenship Test.
Answer
False
The following persons are not required to sit a test:
- those who lodged their citizenship application
before 1 October 2007, or
- those aged under 18, or
- those aged 60 and over, or
- those who suffer from a substantial impairment
or loss of hearing, speech or sight, or
- those who suffer from a permanent physical or
mental incapacity which means you are not capable of understanding the
nature of your application, or
- those who were born to a former Australian
citizen, or
- those who were born in Papua before 16
September 1975 to an Australian citizen born in Australia as currently
defined, or
- persons who are stateless and were born in
Australia.
