Australia's Dual-Citizenship
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Running Head: DUAL CITIZENSHIP SCANDAL IN AUSTRALIADUAL CITIZENSHIP SCANDAL IN AUSTRALIAName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note:
1DUAL CITIZENSHIP SCANDAL IN AUSTRALIAIntroductionBarnaby Joyce, Australia's “Deputy Prime Minister”, is confronting the possibility ofbeing removed from his position and office after the “New Zealand government” reported that hewas a resident of the two nations (McGuirk 2017). For what reason does it make a difference if agovernment official has double citizenship? The Australian Constitution forbids it. The report,ordered on Jan. 1, 1901, incorporates a segment sketching out who can and who can't sit in theSenate, the upper place of the Australian Parliament (Lewis 2017). Pattern of reporting in various mediaArticle 44.1 of the Australian constitution states that “any person who is underacknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or acitizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power shall beincapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House ofRepresentatives.”In the newspapers the incident was widely reported in two different perspectives, onewhere the politicians were supported for holding dual citizenship, and one where the act wascondemned (Lewis 2017). A double citizenship disaster is cutting down some of Australia's mostcapable natives. In the course of recent months, one Australian parliamentarian after another hasbeen pronounced ineligible for office in view of double citizenship.Named the "world's silliest constitutional crisis" by one neighborhood spectator, theraising adventure strikes a particularly strange note today, in a nation where one of every fourAustralians was conceived abroad. In such a nation such laws must be obsolete (Abc.net.au2017). This was the view majorly in the social media circulating around. Social media mostly
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