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.
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.
Bob Brown was arrested under an anti-protest law after refusing to obey police directions to leave a forestry coup at Lapoinya State Forest.
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The proposed loan of Commonwealth money to Adani is on shaky constitutional ground, potentially paving the way for High Court challenge which could change the dynamics of federal-state funding.
Violent service delivery riot near Soweto, Johannesburg.Millions of poor South Africans live in shacks.
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The National Question cannot be resolved solely through South Africa’s constitution. There’s potential for a far more radical transformative project than traditional liberalism.
We don’t yet know why the High Court decided the way it did in upholding the validity of the postal vote.
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To find the government’s postal plebiscite on same-sex marriage valid, the High Court had to work through several quite technical constitutional and legal arguments.
Opposition Kenyan leader Raila Odinga speaks out after the election was declared invalid.
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By failing to provide details on what invalidated Kenya’s election, the country’s Supreme Court has created an impossible timeline for organising re-elections within 60 days.
More than 16 million people are eligible to vote in the voluntary survey.
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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.
It is inconsistent with Australia’s religious diversity for federal parliament to have official prayers based on one particular religious denomination.
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The deputy leader of the Nationals, Fiona Nash, has been found to have dual British nationality.
The decision reveals the striking breadth of the government’s power to deal with asylum seekers and refugees in ways that directly contravene international law.
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The Australian government had and has the power to do things necessary to establish and maintain its immigration detention facility on Manus Island, despite detention violating PNG law.
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is one of five MPs caught out in the ban in dual citizens holding seats.
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The High Court ruling over the five MPs’ legitimacy to hold seats may hang on whether they took reasonable steps to renounce their non-Australian citizenships.
Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba, leads a campaign to clean up the city streets.
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