Dual citizenship
Alternative labels
Dual allegiance
Dual nationality
Multiple nationality
Multiple citizenship
Fact sheet
Fact Check: What does the High Court think about dual nationality?
Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus claims that on the High Court's current interpretation, Nationals Senators Fiona Nash and Matt Canavan, as well as Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce would be ineligible to sit in Parliament.
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Dual citizenship and Section 44: what role of the court?
The relevance of Section 44 of the Australian Constitution has again been questioned. Despite the Prime Minister’s constitutionally inappropriate foretelling of the outcome, the High Court’s decision is far from predictable.
Report
Mate! Citizens, aliens and 'real Australians': the High Court and the case of Amos Ame
In Ame's Case the High Court said that a Papuan man who was an Australian citizen by birth was not a 'real Australian' and could be treated as an 'alien' under the Australian constitution, including for the purpose of taking his citizenship away. The case indicates that citizenship in itself does not confer full membership...