Skip to content
AV Australian Values 简体中文

About This Site

An independent, English-and-Chinese reference on what Australia's official values actually say, and what the citizenship test asks about them.

What this site is

Australia has a short, specific and official list of national values, set out in the Australian Values Statement and tested in the citizenship test. Those values are frequently discussed in ways that blur the official text into something more partisan than it is.

This site exists to keep the two apart. It quotes the official wording, explains what each value actually covers, notes where the underlying facts are genuinely contested, and prepares people for a test that is about the official statement rather than about anyone's politics.

The editorial line

Three commitments shape everything published here.

  1. Quote the source, not the summary. Every value is given in the wording used by the Migration Regulations 1994, and every factual claim is traceable to a named official document with a date. Where a source cannot be verified, that is said rather than filled in with a plausible number.
  2. Stay out of party politics. Political parties across the spectrum invoke Australian values, including One Nation, and invoke them differently. This site does not endorse, rank, attack or campaign for any party, and does not present one party's reading as the correct one. When a question is really about party policy rather than about the values themselves, the answer says so and points back to the official statement.
  3. Name the contested parts. Several of these values are genuinely debated in Australia — the scope of speech protections, the historical treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, what equality of opportunity has and has not delivered. Leaving those out would make the site less useful, not more balanced, so they appear in the relevant pages with the competing positions stated factually.

What this site is not

  • Not affiliated with the Australian Government, the Department of Home Affairs, any political party, or any migration agency.
  • Not a migration agency, and not providing legal or immigration advice for individual cases.
  • Not a substitute for the official resource book, Australian Citizenship: Our Common Bond, which is free from Home Affairs and is the source the test is drawn from.
  • Not a place to argue about which party is right about Australian values.

Languages

The English pages are the primary version. Chinese pages at /zh/ carry the same material, not a summary of it, and are maintained alongside the English rather than translated on request. The citizenship test itself is in English only; the Chinese pages are for understanding the material, not for taking the test.

Sources

Ask a question

The chat assistant on this site answers questions about the five values and the citizenship test from the same official sources. It does not collect contact details, does not promise a reply from a person, and does not give advice about an individual case — for that, speak to a registered migration agent or a legal practitioner.