🇮🇪Irish Vet's English Fails 🇦🇺Australian Computer 🎫Visa Test

An Irish vet, with two university degrees was told by a computerised test that her spoken English is not good enough for an Australian visa.

Louise Kennedy, originally from County Wicklow, applied for permanent residency after two years in Australia. She had been working as a vet in Queensland.

"It was even such a pain to take the whole day off work to do the test and then be told I can't speak English," she said.

The mandatory test involved writing, reading and speaking, with the oral section scored by voice-recognition technology.

Ms Kennedy, who is married to an Australian and expecting her first child, said the oral test involved reading a paragraph that appeared on screen and it was "very, very easy".

Ms Kennedy, said she had been offered the chance to re-do the test free of charge due to "possible interference" caused by construction work outside the centre.

UCJ, UNILORIN.