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About this Guide:

This guide introduces readers to Commonwealth government records on citizenship held by the National Archives of Australia and provides valuable advice to the researcher interested in this topic. The guide covers important themes related to citizenship in Australia, including British and Australian nationality and citizenship categories, naturalisation, the treatment of aliens, assimilation, racial limitations on citizenship, the civic status of women, and civic rights and duties generally.

About the author

David Dutton works in the Historical Documents Project Section of the Deparnnent of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He holds a Pill) in history from the University of Melbourne. His doctoral research concerned the boundaries of Australian citizenship between Federation and the advent of multiculturalism, and the processes by which non-citizens traversed those boundaries. He is author of several journal articles on the significance of race and allegiance in citizenship policies.