And to keep Oz politics going, we are still having fallout from our dual citizenship debacle.
Summary - rules say you can’t be in federal parliament if you are a citizen of another country.
We have something like 25+% of our population born in another country, roughly half the population has one or both parents born in another country.
So not surprisingly many people have dual citizenship “via descent”, from countries such as New Zealand, England, Italy.
Turns out a number of our politicians had dual citizenship and didn’t know, they have now been kicked out.
A few more have now been found that knew, applied to renounce their citizenship but the paperwork didn’t happen in time. These people might get kicked out.
It’s a mess. We need by-elections for some positions, including one for my local seat. If these go against the govt they could lose power!
It’s a complete mess, has made the politicians look stupid and lowered peoples already low respect for them.
Also not something the govt needed at a time when it’s got a small hold on power and performing badly.
So I get to vote in a few weeks. The guy who got kicked out looks like recontesting (now he is actually eligible) and up against him will be an American born women who was a former premier of the state, Kristina Keneally. Oh just went to google her and got to “kris” and her name was top, ahead of Kristen Stewart and Bell.
She still has a very noticible American accent, she came her after college. And yes she is a citizen and has renounced her US citizenship.