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Former Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr says America will find it hard to contain the rise of China as the dominant power in the region

"The Dispute About the South China Sea Is Also a Dispute About History and America's Role"

Posted Thu 2 Nov 2017, 10:54pm
Updated Thu 2 Nov 2017, 10:54pm

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/former-foreign-affairs-minister-bob-carr-says/9113960

It's an 11 min. video of insightful comment. Guarantee there is content to tickle the fancy of anyone anywhere across the political spectrum.

The article below is one re the citizenship problems in the Australian parliament mentioned at the end of that video. The
United States birther issue was a virulent right-wing conservative beat-up. The Australian dual citizenship problem is real.

President of Australia's Senate becomes the latest MP caught up in dual citizenship row

Photo: Stephen Parry, who was born in Tasmania, may hold British citizenship through his father Credit: Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP

Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney
31 October 2017 • 9:44am

An Australian MP has revealed he may be a British citizen and has asked the Home Office to confirm his status, prompting concerns he could be the latest dual citizen to be forced out of parliament following a dramatic high court ruling which found five MPs were ineligible.

Stephen Parry, the president of the senate, or upper house, said the court ruling last week led him to check on whether he holds British citizenship via his British father. He said he wrote to the Home Office on Monday to “seek clarity” over his status.

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The announcement follows a unanimous high court decision last week which threw Australian politics into turmoil and led to the disqualification of Barnaby Joyce, the deputy prime minister, who holds New Zealand citizenship.

The court’s decision followed a bizarre saga in Australian politics, in which a growing list of MPs were revealed to be dual citizens and potentially ineligible as MPs.

Section 44 of Australia’s constitution expressly bans MPs from being “a subject or citizen of a foreign power”.

Aside from Mr Joyce, four other MPs have been disqualified including two British citizens: Fiona Nash, a Nationals MP and government minister, and Malcolm Roberts, from the far-right One Nation party. Two Greens MPs were also disqualified: Scott Ludlam, a New Zealander, and Larissa Waters, a Canadian.
.. more .. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/31/new-australian-mp-caught-dual-citizenship-row/