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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Minister Bill Shorten have responded to reports that Senator Fatima Payman could be caught up in a potential breach of section 44 of the constitution.Section 44 caused a constitutional crisis in 2018 when several MPs resigned after discovering they held or were eligible to hold dual citizenship.
According to a report in The Australian, senior Labor figures have raised that Senator Payman’s statement on the parliament’s qualification register says that she is a dual Australian-Afghan citizen, flagging a potential Section 44 breach, that could force her to resign from parliament.
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