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Australia’s longstanding alliance with New Zealand is on notice, and not because we’ve palmed Barnaby Joyce off to the Kiwis.
Yesterday defence industry minister Christopher Pyne and foreign minister Julie Bishop alleged the Australian Labor Party conspired with its New Zealand counterpart to expose deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce’s dual-citizenship status. Labor Senate leader Penny Wong’s chief-of-staff Marcus Ganley has been revealed as the Australian Labor Party staffer who spoke to New Zealand Labour MP Chris Hipkins about dual-citizenship laws, triggering Hipkins’ questions to New Zealand parliament on the topic.
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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper