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Home affairs minister Peter Dutton may be ineligible to sit in parliament due to his stake in two childcare centres that receive Commonwealth funding.

Ten Daily reported on Monday that the Dutton family trust’s interest in two Brisbane childcare centres may put him in breach of Section 44(v) of the Constitution, which disqualifies any person with “any direct or indirect pecuniary interest with the Public Service of the Commonwealth” from holding public office. University of Sydney constitutional professor Anne Twomey said “there are at least questions to be answered” about Dutton’s pecuniary interests …

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