Politics

Citizenship and Australian Politics

Posted on: Tue 15 Aug 2017

In the latest episode of a worsening citizenship saga, it has been confirmed Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has New Zealand citizenship inherited through his father, who was born in New Zealand.

Dr Zareh Ghazarian is a politics lecturer at Monash University, and he joined Ian and Jennie on Breakfast to discuss the issue of citizenship and Australian politics.

 

Produced by Tom Rohde

Photo by Flickr

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