Originally Posted by
Christopher
To the OP: if Malaysian law does not allow you to hold a Malaysian passport because it doesn't consider you a Malaysian citizen since you are an Australian citizen (and I say "if" because although that is my understanding of the Malaysian position I don't know that for certain, but if it is true), then you will be holding a Malaysian passport that is technically invalid, so my advice would be to be very careful...
Malaysia's indigenous people -- just like the indigenous people in many other former British colonies in Africa and Asia -- insisted at the time of independence or soon after independence on rather strong prohibitions against holding more than one citizenship in order to try to break the ties between the (former) colonists and the land they (or their parents/grandparents) colonized.