Dear seppos,

Australia proposes a cultural exchange whereby we will happily invite your progressive well adjusted not-stupid people in exchange for your accepting our fuckwits on a 1 for 1 basis.

Sadly there are way more of you than us, so if we send you our most fucked 10%, that's only 3m of you.

However, Gina Rinehart, Rupert Murdoch, and Clive Palmer are each worth 1m in exchange if you can seduce them to renounce their Australian citizenship.

When the opportunity to move to Oz with a pathway to citizenship came up, I had to jump at it. I don’t want to raise a sprog in that environment. Ngl, I was in a privileged place to facilitate moving in the first place, but it wasn’t enough to stay in hopes of a better future there. Fully planning to renounce after gaining citizenship.

Not sure I understand the point here. Banks in Europe ask about the citizenship and you're free to say No and there will be no issue opening an account. Assuming you have another passport, which everyone renouncing their citizenship must have anyway to not end up stateless.

The tax obligation can be ignored as well, I know plenty Americans abroad who haven't filed in years but continue to vote from abroad. If needed you can make up with the IRS, but once the citizenship is gone, it's gone.

The only reasonable explanation I see is the guy working a government job where the US passport could be considered a security concern. But this small minority should not lead to queues.

Hundreds of them!