I'm bored... can you tell?

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I have a friend. I do, and she lives in Australia, has done for many years. She has been there so long, in fact, that all three of her children were born there and have lived there their whole lives. Her eldest is almost 16.

They are planning a family trip back to New Zealand - well, they are trying to. She is having problems getting passports for them - just because they were born in Oz and have lived there whole lives there, they aren't actually Australians. I think that might serve them well in the long run, cos this next bit of stupidity makes you wonder if there are any sentient life forms running our Western Island.

Originally, when they travelled, they did it on their parents' passports. Nothing unusual in that. But their parents' passports have expired and the girls need their own anyway, and suddenly they are "stateless". They aren't Australian, because their parents are Kiwis; they aren't Kiwis because they were born in Australia... and until one country or the other will give them nationality, no one will give them a passport.

What a weird and twisted illogic there is to it all... I just hope they have long arms; it's a hell of a swim, even for an Aussie.

What are they thinking?

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