The ‘citizenship’ debate echoes with ambivalent
duality: Law says any person who - Is under any
acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or
adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or
a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of
a subject or citizen of a foreign power shall be
incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator
or a member of the House of Representatives
It means we can’t be like our forebears if we wish
to represent, a concept suggesting we’d be more
influenced by whom we also could be rather than
purely opting an Aussie view… Well - its certainly
got me beggared - I’ve never lived anywhere else
where I could’ve been swayed by deviant ideas
Except for here of course - and that is certainly a
more quirky interpretation of meanings on hand;
you’ve got to be blinkered - if you stand for & get
elected to represent - & make public penance by
renouncing any citizenship you inherited or were
awarded, with or without your consent, to earn it
As where family’s roots originated wasn’t here it’d
seem a majority of Aussies may possibly lay claim
to more than one citizenry - and migration hasn’t
ceased adding fuel to th’ flame - so we’re on the
horns of a politically idiosyncratic dilemma as
to just whom we’d need to blame
© 24 August 2017, I. D. Carswell
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