Hi,
Thanks for posting. I hadn't really considered this issue until reading your post.I hope it clears out as many Liberal, Labor and National politicians as possible. Renewal is always a good thing, particularly in politics which is easily corrupted or held captive by special interest.

Imagine if 20-30 well known politicians had to resign due to dual citizenship issues. It would allow for quite a shake up in the political system. Of course party machines would attempt to replace with favoured "machine" favourites. But how many of them have the same issue? It would see the designated order really re-arranged and that kind of chaos can lead to all sorts of upsets and spills right down to the local level. As I say it could have quite an amazing effect on the otherwise ossified state of 2 party politics.

This issue SHOULD be the ideal conversation starter about an Australian Republic. Part of the problem here is the legal grey areas to do with Commonwealth, the crown and Australia's sovereign status. Note it didn't take the U.K. long to lock Australians out of preferential visa programs or entry conditions once they joined the EU...

Again, how that didn't kickstart a conversation about Republic I don't know. On second thoughts yes I do know PM Howard was a Royalist sycophant and his colleague Abbott I recall was termed the vertical corgi by PM Keating...They effectively suppressed any Republican agendas.

PM Turnbull ran the Republican movement back in the late nineties but has been completely mute on the issue. I find this surprising and curious...