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Are you a dual citizen? You might have lost your Australian rights without knowing

Australian adults who got a second passport prior to 2002 automatically forfeited their Australian citizenship. (ABC News: Jarrod Fankhauser)

Many people living, voting and paying tax in Australia may have technically been stripped of their citizenship and not even realise it.

It's because of the now-repealed section 17 of the 1948 Citizenship Act.

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