Australian Members - Part II - if you read the first post, you'll get what this is all about.

[boot_owl]

Hi,
Thanks for the post. I’m thinking of buying the Christie’s A2 jacket. Would you know if it has any inside pockets say to put a wallet? Also you mentioned you had 2x Christie’s jackets with a slight difference in the leather colour. Is the quality of the leather the same between the 2 Christie’s jackets?
Cheers Duchamp.

No inside pockets on mine

 

[Duchamp_MD]

No inside pockets on mine

Hi boot_owl, could you post a picture or two of your Christie’s a2 jacket for me to take a look? Cheers!

 

[boot_owl]

Hi boot_owl, could you post a picture or two of your Christie’s a2 jacket for me to take a look? Cheers!

sure. Not exactly stock configuration (I added a detachable shearling collar),but everything else is as purchased. Probably 3.5 years old now and still looks/feels geeat

 

[Duchamp_MD]

Wow, the jacket looks awesome! Looks like a custom G1, Lt Pete Maverick style ? How’s the fit? Is it slim or puffy under the arms?

 

[boot_owl]

Wow, the jacket looks awesome! Looks like a custom G1, Lt Pete Maverick style ? How’s the fit? Is it slim or puffy under the arms?

Slightly looser, but I sized up to 42 from my usual 38 to get the length I wanted

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

The great H.G.Nelson said it all “a weekend when too much sport is not enough.” No matter what your religious affiliation this weekend has it all Rugby,NRL & AFL?

 

[Tocklishchap]

The great H.G.Nelson said it all “a weekend when too much sport is not enough.” No matter what your religious affiliation this weekend has it all Rugby,NRL & AFL?

I was born in Melbourne and lived there the first six years of my life and so I can claim a legitimate interest in AFL.

Incidentally I wonder if you can have too much sport?

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Incidentally I wonder if you can have too much sport?

“Sport is the opiate of the masses”Karl Marx

 

[Tocklishchap]

“Sport is the opiate of the masses”Karl Marx

Are you sure it wasn’t Groucho?

 

[Tocklishchap]

I have been looking for an Auscam Australian Army Woolly Pully of the kind illustrated in the links below - to add to my already extensive collection of its British equivalent in various colours and iterations.
Can any Australian member of the Forum vouch for the reliability of the surplus dealer I have found online at Golbourn NSW?

auscam-woolly-pully
auscam-military-jumper

 

[Tocklishchap]

On another note, I am considering applying for an Australian passport, to which I am entitled as I was born there and lived in Australia for six years - and am still very proud of that despite living in England for most of my life. However I shall have to check the dual nationality laws. I am British/Irish at the moment, having taken Irish nationality (being part Irish) in 2016 for reasons that are probably not hard to guess at. … I certainly don’t want to give up the Irish passport because they have been like gold dust for the past five years!

 

[Journeyman]

On another note, I am considering applying for an Australian passport, to which I am entitled as I was born there and lived in Australia for six years

Are either of your parents Australian?

Australia has no problems with people holding multiple nationalities. However, from 1986 onwards, it has only awarded citizenship based on the nationality of one, or both, parents (jus sanguinis). Being born in, or spending time living in, Australia doesn't entitle a person to Australian citizenship simply by virtue of being born here (jus soli).

If you were born in Australia between 1949 and 1986 you may be fine, as you may still be able to apply for citizenship based on your birth here during that time.

 

[Tocklishchap]

Are either of your parents Australian?

Australia has no problems with people holding multiple nationalities. However, from 1986 onwards, it has only awarded citizenship based on the nationality of one, or both, parents (jus sanguinis). Being born in, or spending time living in, Australia doesn't entitle a person to Australian citizenship simply by virtue of being born here (jus soli).

If you were born in Australia between 1949 and 1986 you may be fine, as you may still be able to apply for citizenship based on your birth here during that time.

Thank you for that very clear explanation of the legalities. Neither of my parents is Australian but I was born there almost mid-point between 1949 and 1986 - namely in 1966.

While we’re on nationality laws, I acquired Irish citizenship because my father and grandfather were born in Northern Ireland, which falls within the Irish government’s criteria for Irish nationality. I have less of a direct connection with either part of Ireland than I have either with Australia or much of mainland Europe, because I have only been to Belfast and Dublin for very brief visits! Why did I take an Irish passport? The clue is in the year: 2016!

 

[ryanohare]

On another note, I am considering applying for an Australian passport, to which I am entitled as I was born there and lived in Australia for six years - and am still very proud of that despite living in England for most of my life. However I shall have to check the dual nationality laws. I am British/Irish at the moment, having taken Irish nationality (being part Irish) in 2016 for reasons that are probably not hard to guess at. … I certainly don’t want to give up the Irish passport because they have been like gold dust for the past five years!

Same boat my friend.

Born and raised in Northern Ireland, had two passports my whole life (Irish & British), and now down to just the one - Australian. I often think about going back through the process of getting an Irish one again, but haven't gotten round to it I guess.

 

[Tocklishchap]

Same boat my friend.

Born and raised in Northern Ireland, had two passports my whole life (Irish & British), and now down to just the one - Australian. I often think about going back through the process of getting an Irish one again, but haven't gotten round to it I guess.

Thank you for that Ryan. It’s actually not that difficult to get an Irish passport if you have the right documentation, which I’m sure you do. There has been more of a demand for them since the Brexit vote (which was a narrow result and N. Ireland voted decisively against).

For me the Irish passport has immediate advantages for travelling in Europe and keeping a European as well as British and Irish (and Australian) identity. It’s good to have multiple identities ?especially in a more interconnected - and more uncertain - world.


I wish I knew Ireland better and hope to travel there a bit more in future. I have a lot of remote relatives there. Northern Ireland was an afterthought for the populist-right wing Brexit lobby in England, many of whom I think would actually like to go back to a ‘hard border’. We now have a hard border with mainland Europe - which is proving a bit of a disaster now.?