> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # We Should Be More like Switzerland - URL: https://goodoil.news/we-should-be-more-like-switzerland/ - Published: 2026-10-15T03:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-15T02:59:59.000Z - Description: Citizenship should not be handed out in Weeties packets. - Author: Lushington Brady - Tags: AUS Politics, Immigration For too long, successive Australian governments, especially the Albanese government, have handed out Australian citizenship like McDonald’s giving away Happy Meal toys. The Albanese government have treated what ought to be a solemn undertaking with cavalier contempt, holding mass citizenship rallies (strangely, on the eve of an election) like Moonie mass weddings crossed with North Korean ‘We Love the Dear Leader’ rallies. Still, it’s hardly surprising that a shiftless government would treat Australian citizenship with such contempt, given how pathetically lax our laws are. Any foreigner can lob up and become a citizen after holding a permanent visa for just 12 months. As long as they haven’t buggered off back to whatever Third World cesspit they crawled out of for more than a full year out of the past four, they’re guaranteed a free ticket to the welfare train for life. An Indian or Chinese geriatric who’s never contributed a day’s work or a single cent to this country can latch onto the Aged Pension after just four years. One Nation are not only planning to slash immigration, especially the complete scams that are student migration and the chain-migration of the extended families of so-called ‘skilled migrants’, if elected they’ll make citizenship and welfare benefits a whole lot harder for foreign grifters to glom onto. > [Australia’s immigration system](https://www.onenation.org.au/putting-australians-first?ref=goodoil.news) is broken. One Nation is committed to fixing it with a strong, common-sense approach that prioritises Australians. Our policy includes capping annual arrivals, deporting illegals, enforcing an eight-year citizenship waiting period, reforming student visas, reinstating temporary protection visas, and withdrawing from the UN Refugee Convention. All of which is music to many Australians’ ears – but is it enough? Should Australia guard its citizenship as zealously as the Swiss? Switzerland is famously parsimonious with citizenship: globalist overlord **Klaus Schwab** has never gained Swiss citizenship, despite being born there and living there most of his life. So, what are the [requirements Switzerland places](https://lawsupport.ch/immigration/swiss-citizenship/?ref=goodoil.news) on would-be citizens? To begin with, the Swiss do not view a passport as a parting gift for anyone who happens to buy a condo in Zurich, or lobs up in Geneva claiming ‘asylum’. The timeline alone is enough to induce apoplexy in Canberra’s open-borders lobby: a mandatory 10-year legal residence requirement (though years spent between the ages of eight and 18 count double). The most recent three years, for adults, must be of continued and uninterrupted residence. No quick dashes home, or extended globe-trotting: you must plant your roots deep into Alpine soil. Then comes the small matter of actually mastering the local lingo. You cannot simply nod along and point at items in a supermarket while downloading welfare forms and ‘How Not to Rape’ pamphlets in your native tongue. Applicants must demonstrate robust linguistic proficiency in German, French, or Italian, depending on the canton. In fastidious enclaves like Zug, the standard is punishingly high: mere self-certification won’t wash with the burghers. You must pass accredited examinations proving you can converse fluently in the national tongue. Financial independence, a clean criminal ledger, and demonstrated respect for the Swiss legal order are, naturally, non-negotiable prerequisites. If you have ever leaned on state welfare or rubbed shoulders with the local constabulary for anything more serious than a parking ticket, you might as well pack your bags. But the true masterpiece of the Swiss system, the part that would give our Canberra bureaucracy an absolute collective aneurysm, is the three-tier approval process. An application must run the rigorous gauntlet at federal, cantonal, and communal levels. Rejection at any single hurdle terminates the entire enterprise. And it is the communal level, the *Gemeinde*, that truly separates the wheat from the chaff. Swiss citizenship is granted by the commune first. In many jurisdictions, this involves a rigorous local vetting process where your very neighbours and municipal officials examine whether you are genuinely embedded in local life. Do you participate in local associations? Do you know the baker? Are you recognised as a contributing member of the town? In some cantons, the communal decision is even put to a direct democratic vote of registered residents. Imagine introducing that sort of system to Sydney or Melbourne. The horror! Canberra’s administrative class would rather dissolve parliament than trust local communities to decide who gets to join the polity. Yet the Swiss understand a fundamental truth that our uniparty elites stubbornly refuse to acknowledge: a nation is not an airport lounge, and a passport is not a complimentary boarding pass handed out to any transient traveller who fills out a bureaucratic form. If we want to salvage what is left of our commonwealth, we could do worse than adopt a hefty dose of Swiss common sense. --- 💡 ****If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.**