The former senator Scott Ludlam has had some bad luck. He found out he was a New Zealander. Boom, boom.
Things have moved beyond a joke since Friday when Mr Ludlam resigned immediately after discovering he was a dual citizen of Australia and New Zealand and so, ineligible to stand for Parliament, let alone sit in it. Now the Greens’ other co-deputy, Larissa Waters, has gone the same way with the realisation that she is a dual citizen of Canada despite having left there as an 11-month-old.
“This was my error, something I should have checked when I nominated for pre-selection in 2006,” Mr Ludlam said in a s…
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