CANBERRA, Australia — All Australian senators have three weeks to prove they were not foreign nationals when elected under an agreement the major political parties reached Monday to resolve a deepening citizenship crisis that could upend the government. Australia is rare if not unique in the world in banning dual nationals from sitting in Parliament. Turnbull’s conservative Liberal Party and the centre-left opposition Labor Party agreed to set a Dec. 1 deadline for senators to provide documented evidence that they are solely Australian citizens. The citizenship crisis has been blamed for Turnbull’s popularity falling in an opinion poll published in The Australian newspaper on Monday. The High Court last month disqualified Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce because he had inherited the citizenship of his New Zealand father.

Source: National Post November 12, 2017 22:52 UTC