Susan Lamb on Wednesday said she had been advised she did not have a legal right to access her parents’ marriage certificate.
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Embattled Labor MP Susan Lamb has hit back at government pressure for her to quit parliament over her dual citizenship.
Bridget McKenzie beat several other candidates in the race for the Nationals’ deputy leadership.
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This is the second consecutive time the Nationals have chosen a female senator as deputy leader.
Can decisions made by former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce while he was invalidly in parliament be challenged?
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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.
George Brandis said the government was looking very carefully at the question of the validity of the former ministers’ decisions.
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The opposition says at least 20 executive decisions and 47 ministerial announcements made by Barnaby Joyce could be open to challenge.
The High Court has ruled Scott Ludlam, Larissa Waters, Fiona Nash, Barnaby Joyce and Malcolm Roberts ineligible to have stood for parliament at the 2016 election.
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The question will now be whether Section 44 of the Constitution needs reform to enable dual citizens who may have a lot to offer to become MPs.
The High Court declared Barnaby Joyce ineligible to sit in parliament.
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The High Court was unanimous on its decision in all the cases, with the eligibility of five MPs rejected and two upheld.
All eyes will be on the High Court as it decides the dual citizenship cases of (from left), Malcolm Roberts, Scott Ludlam, Larissa Waters, Barnaby Joyce, Fiona Nash, Matt Canavan and Nick Xenophon.
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For Malcolm Turnbull, on a wafer-thin majority and struggling in the polls, the outcome of the seven High Court cases is of vital importance.
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The University of Canberra’s Michelle Grattan and Michael de Percy discuss the week in politics.
Malcolm Roberts is one of several MPs currently before the High Court.
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The High Court has set hearing dates of October 10, 11 and 12 for MPs’ dual citizenship cases.
The government tells High Court it would be willing to pay costs of those before the court
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The government has asked the High Court to hear the dual citizenship cases of several current and former MPs on September 13-14.
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Michelle Grattan and Deep Saini discuss the week in politics.
With the eligibility of the Nationals’ leadership under question, Malcolm Turnbull has had a nightmarish week.
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Malcolm Turnbull is an optimist, or so he always tells us, and he’ll be looking at how things could all work out for the best in the best of worlds.
Fiona Nash made a statement to the Senate just before it rose on Thursday night for a fornight’s break.
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The deputy leader of the Nationals, Fiona Nash, has been found to have dual British nationality.
Bill Shorten, launching Labor’s childcare policy, inadvertently set off a debate about the major party leaders’ respective feminist credentials.
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Talk of ‘women’s issues’, such as childcare, both accepts they are less important than other issues and assumes they have no universal value.
Rural Health Minister Fiona Nash (right), sitting next to singer Katie Noonan (left) on Q&A.
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When asked about importing cannabis oil to treat child epilepsy, rural health minister Fiona Nash told Q&A that the TGA can allow importation of products not registered in Australia. Is that right?
Food labelling has been a central plank of the food regulatory system since it first emerged in the mid-1800s.
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Coalition MP Ewen Jones has spoken out against reinstating the health star rating website controversially closed down by the assistant health minister. Jones says the government shouldn’t interfere with…
Assistant Minister for Health Fiona Nash’s chief of staff has had to resign because of conflicts of interest.
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Furore over links between Assistant Minister for Health Fiona Nash’s office and industry continues today with revelations that her former chief of staff is connected to the alcohol, as well as the food…