Immigration dictation test

\<!\[CDATA\[When Australia was all new and fresh, when the frontiers were wide and open, and the big island was gilt by unpolluted waters, when it was advancing fairly, everything wasn’t exactly fair.

Prospective immigrants were given a short paragraph of English text to transcribe, thus proving they could write in English. Problem is, if they managed that well, they were sometimes given another, in a different language.

It’s great starting a new country, isn’t it? You can change the rules all the time and no one notices, you can exclude whomever you like, without worrying about anyone getting on your back about it. Ahh, those were the days. Now you’ve gotta be all sneaky… Manly tanks to Cath, my personal historian, for this link. ]>