House debates
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Questions without Notice
Qualifications of Members
2:46 pm
Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source
My question is to the Prime Minister. In the last answer given by the Deputy Prime Minister, he confirmed that, up until the weekend, he was in violation of the Australian Constitution as a member of parliament. He confirmed that he had renounced a foreign citizenship, which you are ineligible to nominate for parliament if you hold. Why is he still a member of your cabinet? Why is he still voting in this parliament, when, by his own admission, it's against the Constitution?
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