‘For us, being stateless means we don’t have any country or documentation. We feel very distressed by this… When our son was granted Australian citizenship, we were extremely happy. It was a big deal, because we have never known in our lives what it is like to be a citizen’. Muhammad and Sumaiya, stateless Rohingya parents to three childrenxxi The Stateless Legal Clinic and Churchill Fellowship In 2021 the Stateless Legal Clinic (SLC) was established at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (PMCS) as a decided legal service to educate stateless children and families about their legal rights and assist Australian born children to apply for citizenship.xxii The SLC partners with the Melbourne Law School Clinics and the Refugee Advice Casework Service. In 2023 it was expanded to assist stateless adults, through an additional partnership with Refugee Legal. Since its establishment it has been met with a high demand for assistance from stateless families and referring partner Melbourne Law School students of the SLC lodging applications organisations and is poised to develop and for citizenship on behalf of their stateless child clients, 2023 expand further in scope and capacity. Back row: L-R: Thenu Herath, Neha Sarkar, Michael Armanios, Karrison Driver, Hanna Amin. Front: Nuria Khasim. Little is understood about statelessness in Australia. As the only legal service of its Photo: Katie Robertson, 2023 kind in Australia, my Fellowship sought to visit similar international legal services, as well as expert organisations and individuals working on the issue of childhood statelessness. My aim was to understand how these more established comparative models operate and function, in order to implement broader service delivery for stateless children in Australia. I also aimed to understand how the Stateless Legal Clinic may be successful expanded to assist stateless adults, as well as children. Upon return from this 18