KM ANIK
24 UPDATE
28/10/2017
Country Bases "AUSTRALIA,SEDNEY"
Reported in BANGLADESH
The Australian government was thrown into turmoil yesterday after losing its one-seat majority with the nation's deputy prime minister kicked out of parliament over his dual citizenship.Barnaby Joyce was among seven politicians embroiled in a crisis after falling afoul of a previously obscure constitutional rule that bars dual citizens from sitting in parliament.The High Court ruled he was ineligible, meaning a by-election for his lower house seat of New England in New South Wales state will be held on December 2.The court move reintroduced uncertainty into a political landscape that has been turbulent in recent years, with four different prime ministers serving since 2013.
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"The decision of the court today is clearly not the outcome we were hoping for but the business of government goes on," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in Canberra after the ruling was handed down.Turnbull insisted his government still had a majority – it holds 75 of 149 seats in the lower house although one sits in the Speaker's chair – and enjoyed the support of several crossbench MPs who could guarantee confidence and supply.
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