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I guess they really want the extra twenty bucks

When I did the ETA last year the question was asking whether you had other passports as opposed to citizenship.

It is not the responsibility of an Australian citizen to overpay for a piece of document that costs less than AUD50 to produce. Perhaps you're happy to pay taxes for those super-expensive submarines but that's your choice, not mine.

Worked for me with no issues. Just a quick call to the back office at check-in to confirm my citizenship, and only a short delay in Sydney to be processed as an undocumented citizen.

I'm more than happy to be faffed around if it means that I can save AUD500 which is the cost of an overseas Australian passport application. My foreign passport only cost me AUD72.

Because the people selling you the water may not realise that you're flying to Australia, where a secondary inspection is required by the Australian government and liquids are banned? Most people transiting in Dubai can take their water onto the plane. For example, if you are flying from Australia to the UK then you can take your water onto the plane in Dubai.

Australian citizens can travel to Australia even without an Australian passport using the Undocumented Uplift mechanism.

Yes definitely go with HSBC. Not only are they used to customers who reside abroad, but the instant transfers between your own HSBC accounts world-wide makes this choice a no-brainer.

Visa application time frames for 101 is available here (take this with a pinch of salt as low-risk countries generally get approved much faster than the average): https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-processing-times/global-visa-processing-times 50% processed in 16 Months 90% processed in 34 Months

Yes, you need to pay the $265 fee even though she's already a citizen by birth. The only exception would be when she previously had an Australian passport because the rules at the time didn't require a citizenship certificate for people in this situation.

You need to wait at least 12 months after renouncing your Australian citizenship before applying for a resumption. Otherwise yes it may be possible to renounce and resume multiple times.

I converted my licence in NSW in 2021 and there was no need to hand in the overseas licence.

Most ETA applications are presumably issued automatically with no human involvement as the visa is sent almost instantaneously.

I don't think this would even meet the threshold for lying under the Migration Act. As I said you could reasonably argue that as you did not hold any other valid passport you answered no to the question (not even a question really, just a button that says "add another passport").

So suppose that you managed to obtain an "illegal" visa as a citizen because of the poorly worded question which you have answered honestly as you do not hold a valid Australian passport, what possible sanctions could there be?