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UPDATE 15 AUGUST 2017
Look at this potential list of dual Australian politicians (courtesy of Karen Alpert)
Barnaby Joyce is a Kiwi, New Zealand confirms https://t.co/PY5Y9Ps3Ng via @ABCNews – Australia should just refuse to recognize him as a KIWI
— Citizenship Lawyer (@ExpatriationLaw) August 14, 2017
Shades of
Larissa Waters …
Oh My God! Think of it:
My sources in Australia tell me …
This time it’s the –
Deputy Prime Minister
– and the first member of the lower house to be tainted by dual citizenship. This is significant. With the Senate they usually go to the next person on that party’s ticket from the last Senate election. With the House of Reps they have to have a by-election – and Turnbull’s government is hanging on by a single vote. So, if the High Court rules that Barnaby Joyce must vacate his seat, it could topple the government!
And I thought that Politics in Canada was dirty. And we all revel in the daily stench of the toxic partisanship in the USA. But, hey at least these two countries do NOT have constitutional provisions that (as they have been interpreted) allow other countries to interfere in who the elected representatives are! (We let them interfere in covert ways – think “From Russia With Love” ….)
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