Backbencher

For the newspaper response, I looked at the Sydney Morning Herald that was online. I looked at many articles that were on there, and there wasn't any problems for me in understanding what they were talking about. There were names in the articles that I of course did not know, which I'm sure they are in the same boat when they read our newspapers. There is a lot of information and articles about the death of Heath Ledger. The articles talk about the movies that he has made over his career, even though his career wasn't very long. This is something that is similar to the newspapers that we are used to seeing.

There was a lot of things in this paper that reminded me of newspapers here in the US. They have the same sections in the paper that we have. There is the usual news section, the sports section, and other normal sections like business, entertainment, travel, life & style, and of course the opinion section. Although they have the same sections, it seemed to me that there was more information in Entertainment section then what we would have. But otherwise it all seemed interesting and almost the same as our papers.

One interesting article was about new immigrants coming to Australia. They hold a special ceremony for those people who pass the test and are able to stay in the country. They were holding those ceremonies all over Australia. It said that over 14,000 people becoming Australians. It said that more then 3,000 of them were going to be in Victoria. It was also said that about 20% of people fail the test to allow them into the country. That number is really shocking to me. That is a lot of people who are trying to start a new life somewhere else that are not allowed to because they do not pass a test.