Another one bites the dust. Matt Canavan's resignation last
Tuesday from his cabinet position as Minister for Resources and
Northern Australia brings the tally up to three senators who,
because of their dual-citizenship, have been found ineligible, or
potentially ineligible, under section 44 of the Constitution.
Question marks also hang over a fourth senator, One Nation's
Malcolm Roberts, who was born in India and has a Welsh father.
Roberts insists he sought to renounce his British citizenship prior
to nominating but he did not receive written confirmation of this
from British authorities until six months after he was elected.
How did it come to this? Ordinary Australians around the country
are scratching their heads wondering how the people they have
elected to make laws, can't even abide by our most important
set of laws in the Constitution.
