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The alleged Islamic State ‘terrorist’ was deprived of her citizenship under a now-abandoned automatic process, without any Australian official evaluating her case.
Jack Letts: no longer a British citizen.
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Why do people readily accept potentially unjust decisions by their government?
An undated photo of Shamima Begum before she went to join Islamic State in 2015.
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What the law says about stripping people of their British citizenship.
Liberia’s President George Weah has ruffled feathers by proposing changes to citizenship laws.
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Liberian President George Weah believes the current citizenship regulations in the country are unnecessarily “racist” and restrictive.
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Problems with section 44 of the Constitution have absorbed a great deal of time, money and energy over the past year – it’s time all politicians worked towards genuine reform.
It has been widely assumed that any dual citizenship problems are confined to the federal parliament. But that may need a rethink.
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While all the attention has been on section 44 of the Australian Consitution, some state constitutions may require closer scrutiny as well.
Might there be yet another way in which parliamentarians can unwittingly fall foul of dual citizenship laws?
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Just when we thought the dual citizenship debacle was coming to an end, there may be another sting in our Constitution’s tail.
Smith said he would take the issue to the party’s state council on Saturday.
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Liberal backbench senator Dean Smith will challenge on Saturday his party’s decision not to field a candidate in the byelection for the federal seat of Perth.
The dual citizenship saga that has rocked the parliament in recent months is unlikely to end any time soon.
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A report into the dual citizenship saga provides a number of practical recommendations to improve compliance with section 44 of the Constitution, but also confirms there is no easy fix.
According to the committee more than half of all Australians would have to reorder some aspect of their affairs if they wanted to nominate for parliament.
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Ahead, the choice is between a patch-up or a proper solution. The patch up is inevitable in the short term but is a cop-out as a long-term answer.
Rebekha Sharkie’s seat of Mayo is the most likely to change hands at the byelection, after she resigned in the light of the dual citizenship saga.
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While Labor is likely to win all four of the upcoming byelections in seats it holds, Rebekha Sharkie faces a tougher fight in the South Australian seat of Mayo.
Gallagher was ineligible to sit because she had not completed the renunciation of her dual British citizenship when she nominated for the 2016 election.
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The decision has reignited the citizenship crisis and transformed the political landscape.
Senator Katy Gallagher knew she was a British citizen at the last election, but maintains she took “all reasonable steps” to renounce it.
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Today’s High Court decision on whether Labor Senator Katy Gallagher is eligible to hold her seat will have significant implications for the whole parliament.
New senators Tim Storer and Steve Martin boosted the prospects for the government’s tax cuts for big business.
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If the government clinches the tax cut legislation it will be a major victory – with its own irony.
It may opens doors but follows wherever you go.
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Congress changed the tax system to benefit companies with overseas operations but failed to help Americans actually living abroad, who still face punitive taxation.
Steve Martin has been sworn in to take Jacqui Lambie’s place as a Tasmanian senator.
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The reallocation is short and long Senate terms for Tasmania distorts the 2016 election result.
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Nicholas Klomp and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
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.
The High Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that Steve Martin was eligible to sit in the Senate.
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The High Court has ruled that Steve Martin is eligible to enter the Senate to replace the disqualified Jacqui Lambie.
Members of the Australasian Federation Conference, 1890.
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The now-infamous section 44 of the Australian Constitution was a last-minute change by the authors, drafted in private and accepted out of weariness.