Malcolm Turnbull arrives in Paris for UN-led climate talks as parliament gears up for final sitting week for 2015; Scott Morrison shakes off two reports – one of a February deal on the treasurer job,another of a deficit blowout. All the political developments, live 12.20am GMTDaniel Hurst has been on the trail of citizenship amendments and has this update.
I understand the planned final-minute changes to the citizenship laws involve two elements. The first amendment is largely uncontroversial and involves an obvious drafting error involving the use of an or” rather than an “and”.
I have been told the second amendment relates to the immigration minister’s powers in the case of a dual national who has gone offshore to fight for a terrorist group and is taken to have automatically renounced their Australian citizenship by their conduct. I understand the preceding version of the bill would have required the minister to consider in each case whether to exercise a power to rescind the revocation and allow the person to hold their citizenship. The unique amendment would continue to give the minister the power to overturn the revocation, or but would not require the minister to consider every single case. 12.14am GMTLiberal Craig Kelly declares the tyranny of political correctness is stifling an examination of Islam’s role in extremism.
Labor’s Laurie Ferguson is quoting the unique York Review of Books in this debate. I suspect that’s not what Christensen had in mind.
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Source: theguardian.com