Apparently I am more Australian than our Deputy Prime Minister, who has automatic NZ citizenship thanks to his parentage and some very flexible NZ citizenship laws.
In breathtaking irony, he's the kind of person who thinks people like me are "the problem with racism in Australia".
The idea of the architect was that you could walk up the hill and be on top of our representatives in government, and be able to show that this is democracy.
More than ever, right now, we need the reminder that our MPs represent us - that doesn't just mean executing our will for the country, but also that they are the example of us that the world sees.