Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealand citizen.

News just breaking. Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealand citizen by descent. His father was born in Dunedin NZ in 1924. He is not resigning and will not step down as Deputy PM.

The Turnbull government which has a majority of one could be in trouble. A bi-election may be on the cards if Joyce is ruled ineligible to be in Parliament.

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Dual citizenship: It looks like we could've avoided this mess 120 years ago

A look at the history of Section 44.

The status of Australian nationality or Australian citizenship was created by the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948, which came into force on 26 January 1949.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-17/dual-citizenship-the-moment-we-could-have-avoided-this-mess/8807534

The changes to Australian citizenship laws seem to have been ongoing for over 100 years.

At Federation in 1901, ‘British subject’ was the sole civic status noted in the Australian Constitution. The Australasian Federal Convention of 1897–98 was unable to agree on a definition of the term ‘citizen’ and wanted to preserve British nationality in Australia.

An administrative concept of citizenship arose from the need to distinguish between British subjects who were permanent residents and those who were merely visitors. This was necessary for the Commonwealth to exercise its powers over immigration and deportation.

This administrative concept was formalised in the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948. In 1958 the Act was amended so that naturalisation could only be revoked if obtained by fraud. This prevented a naturalised person being stripped of citizenship and deported.

Throughout the 1960s, Australian citizens were still required to declare their nationality as British. The term ‘Australian nationality’ had no official recognition or meaning until the Act was amended in 1969 and renamed the Citizenship Act. This followed a growing sense of Australian nationalism and the declining importance for Australians of the British Empire. In 1973 the Act was renamed the Australian Citizenship Act.

It was not until 1984 that Australian citizens ceased to be British subjects.

Australian Citizenship – Parliament of Australia

Australian nationality law changes

I think we should audit them all.

I wonder how Canada handles this problem of transitioning from all being British Subjects , 

This is one of the problems of having a written constitution where Parliment is not supreme as in the UK 

For instance the UK parliment could and.has in the past vote to become a republic .

The written constitution is a document written for another time . 

Foxy I have been reading this rubbish for years and then I decided to join for while but not for long as it takes up to much time.

I've never used gravox in my life.

Roast leg of pork tonight with apple sauce and sage and onion gravy. My turn to cook.

No muslims coming for dinner.

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