I was going by my experience with my children but that was US/Canada. They were born in US, but Canada automatically grants Canadian citizenship at birth. I did paperwork to get them a certificate saying so, but they were citizens without that paperwork. It looks like that is not necessarily the case in Australia thougn, where they'd have to apply.
It does seem questionable that she would allow them to go to Australia for 6 months without her and without the plan of them coming back if I read that right. Why didn't he go to Australia and she stay with the kids? It makes me think that maybe he was the more involved and responsible parent and has just as much right (or more) to the kids as she does. Without knowing his side of the case, I'd hate to assume that her side is the right side to be on just because she is the mom and on the Canadian side.
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