The Australian government is currently facing an unprecedented constitutional crisis which has embroiled and ensnared MP’s from both sides of the political spectrum. The issue of ‘dual nationality’ as defined by s44 of the Constitution has placed a focus squarely on the eligibility of members of Parliament to sit as rightful representatives. It is a focus that an already floundering government paralysed by its own internal ideological tussles can ill afford, and yet it is now knocking almost daily at the doors of Parliament. It has left several MP’s shambling and red-faced and it has confounded and perplexed many others. It is an issue that even the newly erected fence around Parliament house cannot keep out, and it will not go away until the government appropriately addresses it. But is there a deeper message that our politicians need to be taking away from all of this? At its heart, the dual citizenship crisis points strongly to our nation’s founding roots – to the inalienable