Unwanted Australians: Six times they refused me the citizenship, because of my beliefs, Dennis Sykiotis

"Apparently the war of the Department of Immigration against me is escalating," Dennis Sykiotis wrote to The Australian newspaper in November, 1972, the tone of his letter part tongue-in-cheek, part provocation. "In the past my applications for Australian citizenship were promptly answered with a refusal," he told the paper. "The element of novelty this time was that I had not applied for naturalisation!"41-year-old Sykiotis had spent more than half his life in Australia after arriving from Greece, but was still stuck between two worlds. He tells his story here to Themi Kallos.

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