Katy Gallagher refers herself to the high court over citizenship – politics live

The dual nationality crisis has turned nasty, with the Labor and the Coalition attacking each other. Follow all the day’s action

Here is what Mark Drefus said this morning about Josh Frydenberg’s situation:

It’s a matter of the constitution of Australia. I’m simply making the point that the High Court decisions need to be applied, the Constitution needs to be observed. The High Court has said it is a matter of foreign law, foreign citizenship law. It’s a matter of the law of Hungary, the law of Poland, the law of Germany, the law of Greece, the law of Italy. And these MPs need to do what the disclosure process called for. Not simply hide behind legal advice, not say I’ve got legal advice and that’s enough.”

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Labor looks set to refer David Feeney. Here is what Tony Burke said this morning:

With respect to David Feeney, I’ll move that referral. If the documents turn up, it doesn’t make sense that he was asked ten years ago to deal with both potential Irish and potential UK and only dealt with one of them. But it’s a disclosure process. If you don’t have the documents you get referred. So I’ll move that referral personally. With respect to the other individuals, there is no step they could have taken before they nominated that they didn’t take. Absolutely no steps. In fact, in fact in Susan Lamb’s case, the UK then wrote back to her and said we’re not even convinced you had UK citizenship in the first place. So that’s the situation that they’re in. If Malcolm Turnbull’s desperate to move referrals then he has already indicated they will move them with respect to those members.

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