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	5) Lack of national sovereignty – most Australians do not believe that the sovereignty of our nation resides in the Crown – our national sovereignty resides within the Australian people.		5) Lack of national sovereignty – most Australians do not believe that the sovereignty of our nation resides in the Crown – our national sovereignty resides within the Australian people.
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 As Henry Lawson wrote: “For the South must look to the South for strength in the storm that is to come.”(1)
 == COLONY OR NATION? ==
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 AUSTRALIAN LAWS:
 SUBJECT TO BRITAIN
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 Later, under the following Labor Government, the Prime Minister, John Curtain, and the Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt, arranged for “Royal instruments” to confer upon the Governor-General the power to declare “a state of war with Japan, Finland, Hungary and Romania” (the proclamation of which was to be countersigned by the Australian Prime Minister). So, Australia declared war upon Japan by itself, but only – in effect – following Royal (i.e. British Government) permission to do so.(120)
 == IMMIGRATION AND RACE ==
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 THE COCOS ISLANDS AFFAIR
 In the 1950s the Cocos Islands were transferred from British rule to Australian rule. This almost didn’t happen, because “Australian officials drew particular exception to British demands that Cocos Islanders be given sympathetic consideration for settling in this country”. A compromise was drawn up, by giving the Islanders sympathetic consideration “to enter” (not to “settle in”) Australia. Once again, the British were attempting to interfere with the White Australia Policy.(138)
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 Legally, “there was no such thing as Australian citizenship before 26 January 1949”. Prior to this, all Australians were British Subjects, and Australia was regarded as part of the British Empire.(148)
 It was the Labor Government of Ben Chifley which made the change, via the Nationality and Citizenship Act, which came into force on Australia Day 1949 (26 January 1949) and created the new category of Australian citizen. The Act also enabled the creation of the Australian passport (prior to this, Australians travelled by using “British” passports), but this new passport creation was revoked by the incoming Menzies Government – so that Australians then continued to travel overseas until 1973 with the words “British Passport” emblazoned on the front of their passports”.(149)

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