THE AUSTRALIAN ALLEGIANCE ACT

Citizenship carries obligations. Break your allegiance and you leave.

Revive Australia is proposing the Australian Allegiance Act to give legal force to the Australian citizenship pledge.

Every new citizen publicly pledges loyalty to Australia and the Australian people. They promise to share our democratic beliefs, respect our rights and liberties, and uphold and obey Australian law.

Under our proposal, that pledge will carry enforceable obligations.

If you lie when making the citizenship pledge, you will be prosecuted. If you become a citizen by conferral and later repudiate your allegiance through the conduct expressly identified in the Bill, you will be prosecuted.

Upon conviction, you will lose your Australian citizenship and you will be deported.

WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING

The Australian Allegiance Act creates two criminal offences: one for knowingly lying while making the Australian citizenship pledge, and another for an adult who became a citizen by conferral and later repudiates their allegiance to Australia through the acts or speech specified in the Bill.

Upon conviction, loss of citizenship will be mandatory and the offender will be detained and removed from Australia.

There will be no ex-citizen visa, no permanent residency, no family visa, no second citizenship application, no ministerial waiver and no pathway back. The offender will be permanently barred from obtaining an Australian visa or citizenship and permanently prohibited from returning to Australia.

Australia has been too kind and too forgiving for too long, and it has come at our own expense. People have accepted Australian citizenship, enjoyed everything this country gave them and then used their position here to spread hatred towards Australians, reject assimilation, advance foreign interests and actively undermine the nation that welcomed them.

That stops now.

HOW IT WILL WORK

1. The pledge carries legal force

A person seeking Australian citizenship publicly pledges loyalty to Australia and its people. They accept obligations as well as rights.

2. Repudiating that allegiance becomes an offence

The Bill identifies a closed list of conduct that repudiates the allegiance undertaken in the citizenship pledge.

3. The offender is prosecuted

The Australian Federal Police and Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions investigate and prosecute alleged offences. The case is decided in court.

4. Citizenship ends upon conviction

The sentencing court must order the offender to cease being an Australian citizen. The Minister cannot stop, delay or reverse that order.

5. The offender is deported

The offender is detained and removed from Australia. If their former country refuses to accept them, the Australian Government must secure a lawful third-country arrangement.

There is no possibility of them remaining in Australia and no possibility of them ever returning.

WHAT CONDUCT WILL THE BILL TARGET?

The Bill applies to citizenship obtained by conferral. It targets people who:

  • Lie when making the Australian citizenship pledge.

  • Publicly declare that they will not assimilate into Australian society.

  • Publicly reject loyalty to Australia or the Australian people.

  • Spread hatred of or contempt for White Australians because of their race or European ancestry.

  • Deny that White Australians possess a culture, history or inheritance worthy of recognition.

  • Deny that White Australians have a legitimate connection to Australia or an interest in preserving their cultural and demographic continuity.

  • Work for foreign states, foreign political organisations or foreign causes against Australian interests.

  • Engage in or encourage subversive conduct directed against Australia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, constitutional order, democratic institutions, national security, defence or independence.

These actions directly contradict the allegiance voluntarily undertaken when the person asked Australia to make them a citizen.

WHAT DOES THE BILL PROTECT?

The Bill contains a closed list of prohibited conduct. Governments, ministers, departments and courts cannot expand it by inventing new definitions of “Australian values.”

The legislation expressly protects people who:

  • Criticise governments, courts, institutions, political parties, public officials or government policies.

  • Campaign lawfully to change Australian laws or institutions.

  • Oppose multiculturalism or mass migration.

  • Support nationalism, patriotism or assimilation.

  • Defend White Australians, their equal dignity, their interests, their British and European inheritance, and their cultural or demographic continuity.

  • Practise a religion.

  • Report, quote, debate, research, teach, criticise or satirise an idea.

A future government cannot declare its own political program to be “Australian values” and use the legislation to remove its political opponents.

The definition of White Australians is permanently tied to specified classifications officially recognised by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. A future government or bureaucracy cannot quietly rewrite the definition.

CITIZENSHIP CARRIES OBLIGATIONS

Australia chooses who becomes an Australian citizen. When someone asks to join our national community and accepts the honour of citizenship, they undertake an obligation of allegiance to Australia and the Australian people.

Anyone who migrates here and seeks citizenship must understand the commitment they are making. They are expected to honour their pledge, respect the country that welcomed them and become part of the Australian national community.

Under the Australian Allegiance Act, those who repudiate that allegiance will lose their citizenship, be deported and never return.

READ THE PROPOSAL

Revive Australia has prepared:

  • A two-page overview of the Australian Allegiance Act.

  • The complete policy proposal.

  • The Australian Citizenship Amendment (Australian Allegiance) Bill 2026.

  • An explanatory memorandum setting out the operation and historical foundation of the Bill.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • The Australian Allegiance Act is proposed legislation giving legal force to the Australian citizenship pledge.

    It creates offences for knowingly making a false citizenship pledge and for subsequently repudiating allegiance to Australia through conduct expressly identified in the Bill.

  • The repudiation offence applies to adults who obtained Australian citizenship by conferral.

    It does not apply to Australians who acquired citizenship automatically by birth or descent.

  • The court must order that the offender cease being an Australian citizen.

    The offender will then be detained and deported. They will be permanently barred from obtaining an Australian visa, permanent residency or citizenship, and permanently prohibited from returning to Australia.

  • No. Citizenship loss is mandatory following conviction. The Minister cannot stop, delay, suspend or reverse the court’s order.

  • The Australian Government must secure a lawful arrangement with another country willing to receive them.

    The offender remains in detention pending removal. Statelessness does not create a right to remain in the Australian community or provide another pathway to permanent residency.

  • No. Australian citizens remain free to criticise governments, political parties, institutions, laws and public officials. They can campaign for political change, oppose multiculturalism or mass migration, support nationalism and defend Australia’s history and national identity.

    The Bill treats the citizenship pledge as a continuing legal undertaking for people who voluntarily applied for citizenship by conferral.

    A person can hold contrary views and express them elsewhere. They cannot repudiate their allegiance in Australia and demand that Australia continue recognising them as a citizen.

    They have broken the agreement upon which their citizenship was granted, and there must be consequences.

  • The Bill prevents that by establishing a closed statutory test.

    The prohibited conduct is written directly into the legislation. It cannot be expanded through regulations, departmental policies, administrative guidance or a government’s preferred definition of “Australian values.”

    The Bill also expressly protects lawful political dissent, religious belief, journalism, research, teaching, criticism and satire.

  • The citizenship pledge requires loyalty to Australia and the Australian people.

    Public hatred or contempt directed at White Australians because of their race or European ancestry repudiates that promise. So does denying that White Australians possess a culture, history or legitimate connection to the country they and their ancestors built.

    The Bill defines anti-White, anti-Australian hatred precisely so the provision cannot be diluted, redirected or expanded for unrelated political purposes.

  • The definition uses official classifications already recognised by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, including Caucasian and specified categories of European ancestry.

    Those classifications are fixed to the official 2025 and 2026 ABS publications. Later administrative changes cannot alter the statutory definition.