Nick Xenophon Team senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore has resigned from parliament after being advised she is a British citizen via her mother.
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Changing the Constitution is the only way to draw a line under this chaos.
Hollie Hughes was the next candidate on the Coalition joint ticket for the 2016 election and was set to get the position on the recount.
Labor is running high-profile former New South Wales premier Kristina Keneally in the December 16 Bennelong byelection.
The government has agreed to Labor’s December 1 deadline and tougher conditions in a deal on MPs citizenship disclosure.
Newspoll has delivered a sweeping new setback to Malcolm Turnbull, with a big cut in his ‘better prime minister’ rating and Labor increasing its two-party lead to a massive 55-45%.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
Malcolm Turnbull has told Rebekha Sharkie, the Nick Xenophon Team’s sole member in the House of Representatives, that her eligibility may have to be determined by the High Court.
The bottom line is that voters want the citizenship matter fixed quickly.
Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten are inching toward an agreement on the form of a citizenship declaration that each MP would have to make within weeks.
The Turnbull government is trying to limit the damage from the citizenship crisis with a plan to have all MPs make declarations about their circumstances.
Labor has been on a unity ticket with the Coalition in opposing an audit, but as the crisis continues to unfold it has moved to a position that falls short of bringing in an outside auditor.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
The sudden exit from parliament of Senate President Stephen Parry has turned into a toxic blame game, in a further sign of a government crumbling into chaos.
Stephen Parry’s departure is feeding into the current tensions between the Nationals and the Liberals.
The government has been thrown into a fresh crisis, with Senate President Stephen Parry announcing he may be a British citizen.
Parry, a senator from Tasmania, is the first Liberal to be caught in the dual citizenship debacle.
Laws passed by MPs while under a citizenship cloud are unlikely to be contested; decisions made by ministers after doubts about their dual citizenship was announced are more complicated matters.
A northern New South Wales bookmaker has got it about right on the New England byelection. “Barnaby will be a shorter price than Winx,” he told a National. “And the only one who could beat Barnaby is Winx…
The opposition says at least 20 executive decisions and 47 ministerial announcements made by Barnaby Joyce could be open to challenge.
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