Between 1920 and 1948, when an Australian-born woman married an ‘alien’ (a non-British subject), she was involuntarily stripped of her nationality and deemed to be an ‘alien’ too. Over this period, the question of married women’s nationality gained international recognition, largely due to the efforts of women’s organisations around the Commonwealth who petitioned to have women’s independent nationality restored. In Australia, dependent nationality laws received a degree of recognition in newspapers and women’s magazines. Although these publications informed women of the particulars of nationality laws and how they affected wives of ‘aliens’, they were often inaccurate. In this paper I will explore how Australian newspapers and women’s magazines discussed married women’s nationality, with a particular focus on marital denaturalisation, in the early twentieth century. In addition to discussing the inaccuracies presented in the press, I will examine the stories of individual maritally denaturalised women that were used to illustrate the injustices of the law as is stood.