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Re: Australia Day??

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Originally Posted by JAJ (Post 4274824)

Very well said. Also remember that if the certificate is ever lost, there now should be a permanent record on DIMA's systems which would make it a lot easier to replace in those circumstances.

JAJ what u doin up at this hour.......get tae yer bed lol

Re: Australia Day??

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Originally Posted by worzel (Post 4273769)

Yep.

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/975i.pdf

Even more amazing - I still remember being shocked in the Immigration museum in Melbourne to read that Aboriginals were classed as animals rather than people until the late 60's.

And there hasn't been Scottish citizenship since 1707! Not a lot of people know that either. :D (Welsh?) 26 out of 32 counties of Ireland only got their own citizenship in 1922, the other 6 stayed where they were! See a common denominator here? (Graffiti I saw in Ireland which will puzzle you if you look at it arithmetically - 26+ 6 = 1)

OzTennis :)

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Originally Posted by OzTennis (Post 4275091)

And there hasn't been Scottish citizenship since 1707! Not a lot of people know that either

There was no citizenship statute in place at the time, other than the (English) Sophia Naturalisation Act of 1705. At the time citizenship was nothing more than a common law concept of "allegiance to the monarch". And the Scottish and English monarchies had been held by the same Sovereign since 1603.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...ationality_law

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26 out of 32 counties of Ireland only got their own citizenship in 1922, the other 6 stayed where they were!

At the time, a common British nationality was maintained. The Irish only introduced a local citizenship statute in 1935 and this was not recognised by the United Kingdom until 1949.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...lic_of_Ireland

Re: Australia Day??

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Originally Posted by Rosie Cheeks (Post 4273748)

Did you know, interesting fact coming up here, that Australian citizenship only came into being in 1949? That is less than 60 years, I was amazed, don't know why, but I was! I am assuming that all in Australia were British subjects prior to this?
Does anybody know if this is accurate?

That's correct. Prior to the late 1940s, there was a common British nationality for all Commonwealth countries. In general, a British subject had that status across the Commonwealth, although in some cases, persons naturalised in a particular Dominion were British subjects in that Dominion only. And the laws on British nationality introduced in Australia and Canada in the 1920s were very similar to the British law, but not identical.

The UK and the Dominions, plus Southern Rhodesia (technically a colony), introduced local nationality laws on the following dates:

Irish Free State : 10 April 1935
Canada: 1 January 1947
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) : 15 November 1948
United Kingdom & Colonies : 1 January 1949
New Zealand : 1 January 1949
South Africa : 2 September 1949
Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) : 1 January 1950
India : 26 January 1950
Pakistan (including Bangladesh at the time) : 13 April 1951

Newfoundland never introduced a nationality law, as it joined Canada on 1 April 1949.

Re: Australia Day??

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Originally Posted by steandleigh (Post 4273995)

They (Aboriginals) were actually classed as "flora and fauna", not 'animals'. Not that it makes it any the better....:rolleyes:

Correct. That Aboriginals should be able to qualify for citizenship (in the land of their birth!) and the right to vote was decided in 1968 by a public referendum on the matter. Even then the OZ govt it would seem, was too blind or gutless to just legislate the change on their own. A couple of years later and the "White Australia" policy (immigration) was ended.