Australia seems like it is having a purge of non citizens from Parliament where quite a few members of Federal Parliament have dual citizenship and have neglected to declare themselves as Australian.
Our son Martin encountered this problem in 2011 when he was in Melbourne working for a Coles Supermarket. The management suspended him when he could not prove his Australian citizenship. Martin Was born in Wewak, New Guinea in 1972. The northern half of Papua New Guinea, was deemed to be a U.N. Trust Territory and at the time of leaving PNG we were required to declare Martin to be an Australian citizen.
At the time of Martin’s suspension, my late wife Joan was deceased and I could not remember if we did indeed declare him to be an Australian. After some months of dealings with the bureaucracy in Canberra, we finally received notice that Martin was indeed Australian. Too bad Coles couldn’t keep his job safe.
Most of the politicians caught up in the dual citizen debacle were either born in Australia to parents from overseas or arrived in Australia at a very young age. Martin was nearly declared an alien with the possibility of being deported to his home country, Papua New Guinea.
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