belly,
I notice in your last post You further bring party politics into the issue. Please read my opening post and you will see ther is no mention or suggestion of politics.

I am asking if there are any advantages to Australia in allowing dual citizenshp.

I further note you say 'your team' meaning I belong to a political party. I do not and am quite cynical about all our political parties and our politicians.

Dual citizenship is one of those things that doesn't benefit a society only individuals who like sitting on the fence for obvious reasons. I say, either you're a citizen of a country & your allegiance is to that country. One thing I would like to see is a straight forward reversal to your former citizenship should you not be happy in the new country. Having two passports is too much of a loop hole.

Banjo I stand by that last line and my every comment here.
I take a far different view than you on this issue.
Find no Merritt in it at all, maybe I am wrong.
Just maybe you are.
Those planes flew under both governments and if the question was put it is my view very few indeed would say do not send them.
Show me,highlight,how such an action is not linked to politics.
IF your thread was not a criticism of the decision to bring them home who are you upset with?
Individual, are those thoughts help also for the English who hold both?
I can not find a reason to support an idea that is against every practice of the western world.
We all however have the right to our thoughts, even if they appear to be bizarre.

Belly,
I guess you are right. Duel citizenship is a political decission made by government and supported by the opposition. Like the 'baby bonus' it was put on by one mob to gain a few votes and not removed by the other mob, for fear of losing a few votes.

So the issue of dual citizenship and the baby bonus is simply vote catching. There is no consideration as to whether either is good for Australia. Both are a costly exercise that benefits a few individuals and no advantages for the rest of the population.

Just because both major parties agree on a policy or action, does not make it right. They are supposedly elected to represent the people which they seem to ignor between elections.

No wonder one is cynical. It is obvious why no one has posted any advantage that dual citizenship brings to Aus, there is none.

Why all this undue cruelty?

I have dual citizenship.

I am Australian now, but I retain my old citizenship so that I can visit my elderly parents overseas at any time when they need me and be able to take care of them for extended periods if necessary with no visa limitations.

What have I done to you, Banjo, that you want to punish me so?

I welcome your dual citizen ship, and say sorry for Banjo, he is probably a very nice bloke, I am sure he is.
We live in the spider Webb of our own making, politics has became a game of one up man ship.
Politicians have become more aware than ever, maybe by falling at the feat of Americas Republicans, truth is not needed to stirr trouble.
Many, too many of us are only to pleased to fire at any chance a round or two at supporters of that other mob, I sin here too.
Baseless and finding no real support, that is my view of this thread.
Right now parliamentary question time is in progress.
If this question was put, should Australia allowed dual passports.
I am willing to bet not one hand, unless it was the family first senator, lost and unaware of his surroundings, voted no.
We are however free to say thankfully, what we want here I do not want my country to become xenophobic.