Senate debates Questions without Notice

Qualifications of Members and Senators


George Brandis

George Brandis Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General

2:06 pm

Yes, I am. In my contribution to the debate earlier during the day I did refer to the member for Braddon and the member for Longman, who have been the subject of an advice by the former Commonwealth Solicitor-General, Dr David Bennett QC. The former Commonwealth Solicitor-General arrived at the conclusion that, on the basis of their own public admissions, the member for Braddon and the member for Longman were dual citizens at the time of the 2016 election. In fact, those two members—the member for Braddon and the member for Longman—delayed by almost a year after they were preselected as the Labor Party candidate for those seats before they even initiated the process of renouncing their UK citizenship.

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