Perversely, whilst Australian MPs & Senators must be Australian and not British, the Australian Head of State is required to be British and not Australian - but no-one seems prepared to acknowledge the absurdity of this brazen contradiction.
It is quite plain that when the Australian Constitution was framed - and up until the last thirty years or so - that being British and being Australian was regarded as pretty much the same thing.
However, times change and Australia has grown up - but it continues to leave the Constitution languishing in the 1890's.
Until last month, it could have been argued that because we have a British monarch as Head of State, then Britain is NOT a foreign power and therefore our politicians can be British too.
However, the High Court of Australia has now ruled that Britain IS a foreign power and it confirms the contradiction of the monarch of a foreign power being Australian Head of State.
My argument is that IF Australia regards Britain as a foreign power, then the monarch of that foreign power should not be Australian Head of State.
Australia needs to introduce a mechanism of allowing people to:
(a) legally publicly renounce all other citizenships, regardless of hereditary options which they have neither applied for nor benefited from; and
(b) sit in Parliament as dual citizens if they declare this when nominating.
Just as importantly, it needs to have an Australian as Head of State.