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Politics & Government Dual citizenship - should you have to declare it?
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Where did you hear that?
Oh yeah, always important to leave on the passport you came in on.
Plugger35
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Nice sentiment John Lennon but that would just end up with desirable places like Australia, US, UK and Europe being swamped with people from third world countries, not to mention terrorists hell-bent on wreaking havoc and destroying us western capitalist pigs.
Have you heard of the Bali Bombings? It's no coincidence that the majority of people killed with those bombs were Australian and it happened around the same time Australia joined the US in fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thanks to our involvement in those wars Australia and Australians are now seen by terrorists as a target along with the other major participants like the UK, hence the London bombings in 2005. Obviously America is still no.1 on their hitlist but we're probably no.2 or no.3 now, NZ probably isn't even on their radar.
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Yup - I'm, sure millions of starving africans who can't even afford food will be qeuing for the first class ticket direct from Nairobi to Sydney.
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Hate to pop your patriotic bubble but Australia is a nothing on the world stage.
Plugger35
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Plenty of dirt poor boat people still manage to make it here.
Apart from the US or UK which other Western country would be a bigger terrorist target than us?
We're still way behind the US as a terrorist target but we're one of their biggest allies which terrorists are aware of, as I said the Bali Bombings wasn't a coincidence and there have been other terrorist threats here in recent years that have been foiled by ASIO and the AFP.
France and Germany
Plugger35
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Yeah they'd be the other two main terrorist targets being Western Allies but I'm not sure they'd be bigger targets than us now.
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Germany and France are B+ players. A- when the rest of the EU gives them the all clear.
Australia is a solid C-.
Europe includes the UK.
Australia is a solid C-.
Europe includes the UK.
It was more just unfortunate geography. A party island for Aussies in a highly populated Muslim country with a decent dose of instability. Australia would be a fair way down on the target list. Even developed Asian nations such as South Korea and Japan would be bigger targets.
Plugger35
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Maybe politically it does but geographically the UK is separate to mainland Europe and they still use their own currency rather than Euros, most Poms consider themselves separate to Europe too.
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Geographically it's part of it. A lot of poms are vain.
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You've been misled.
People pay thousands upon thousands of dollars to people smugglers to get on those boats to Australia.
These are not 'poor' people.
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I never realized that these things weren't on record in the first place???
If you've got nothing to hide, there shouldn't be any problems declaring dual/multi citizenship.
Handy to know this though, my soon to arrive daughter will be a dual citizen.
If you've got nothing to hide, there shouldn't be any problems declaring dual/multi citizenship.
Handy to know this though, my soon to arrive daughter will be a dual citizen.
Plugger35
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Thousands of dollars thats probably taken them about 10 years to save from hard labour, prostitution, selling organs etc. There wouldn't be too many rich boat people rolling in money, if they're prepared to risk their lives in some shitty boat then things can't be too great for them where they come from.
I never knew this. I have dual citizenship. If I cannot take office, then I don't see why I should have to vote either.
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Well you could simply pull an Eric Abetz and keep the matter secret for sixteen years.
http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php/article/mercury-abetz-challenge-withdrawn
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i would love for that. unfortunately the world has become so divided over the years it's really not possible. maybe in some utopian future but it would be many centuries away and unlikely to actually ever be conceivable.
but you are right, we are old citizens of the world. there is a great line in the muse song map of the problematique Why can't we see
That when we bleed we bleed the same and although that song seems more of a personal song than a political song i always wish you could send that line to some of the ****ed up politicians and nutters in this world who just seem intent on bringing it down.
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The politicians are just puppets, my friend.
Interchangeable, replaceable, and controllable.
If you spend enough time reading and observing you will work out who the real cretins are.
And you'll also work out that they want you focusing your anger towards the politicians.
should be no duel citizenships there's no reason for it.
all it is, is dodgy tax break rubbish.
all it is, is dodgy tax break rubbish.
