Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] dual citizens<br/>
Date: Jun 03, 2001 @ 02:23<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1671591738">Australia allows dual citizens for those from other countries coming to <br/>
Australia, but revokes the citizenship of those obtaining other <br/>
citizenships. Thus a kiwi can become an Austrlaian and hold both, but an <br/>
Austrlaian becoming a kiwi loses his Aussie passport. Daft.<br/>
Also, despite the &#39;all equal as citizens&#39; line, those who have dual <br/>
citizenship cannot run for parliamentary office. However, this only applies <br/>
to people from countries with reno8ncable citizenships. Like the UK and NZ <br/>
and Canada.<br/>
IF you come from Upper Congobongo or whereever that considers you a citizen <br/>
for ever, and you cannot renounce your foreign citizenship, you can run for <br/>
office. So in order for a Canadian to run for parliament here, he has to <br/>
renounce allegiance to QEII then swear allegiance to QEII to show that he no <br/>
longer has allegiance to QEII but only to QEII. Whereas if you are a loyal <br/>
supporter of President-for-Life General Idi Suhatro Peron or somesuch, you <br/>
don&#39;t haveto renounce your allegiance to him before running for the PRime <br/>
Ministership of Australia.<br/>
Go figure.<br/>
So in effect there are several classes of Austrlaian citizen: Austrlaians, <br/>
immigrant Austrlaians who have to renounce their (mostly Anglo-Saxon) <br/>
nationality to gain the full privaleges of citizenship, and immigrant <br/>
Austrliaans form tihrd world dictatorships who can keep two citizenships and <br/>
have full trights in both countries.<br/>
Then there&#39;s the Austrlaians who have had to give up their Aussie passports, <br/>
like Rupert Murdoch, who under American foreign ownership laws had to become <br/>
American to buy his US media holdings, and because he became American, had <br/>
to give up his Australian citizenship.<br/>
It&#39;s all weird.<br/>
<br/>
According to my research, neither Belgium nor the Netherlands allows dual <br/>
nationality, o those in Baarle are forced to choose by the age of 18, though <br/>
in both parts of the villag,e nationals of one country can vote in the <br/>
municipal elections of the other. Is this true, can the Dutch out there <br/>
confirm this? I guess with common EU nationality and passports, dual <br/>
citizenships are increasingly unnecessary as you can work and live in the <br/>
other countries freely,but can&#39;t vote there, except at municipal level. <br/>
Correct?<br/>
<br/>
BW<br/>
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