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Flat White

Barnaby, the beat-up — and the blunder

16 August 2017

8:37 PM

16 August 2017

8:37 PM

Since when have Australian-born citizens with one foreign-born parent but permanently resident here been automatically obligated to the laws of that parent’s country of birth?

Not only when they happen to be in that foreign country but while they remain permanently domiciled and working here.

Barnaby Joyce, for example, who was born in Tamworth to a second generation Australian mother but unfortunate enough to have a Kiwi father.

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