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Barnaby Joyce Research Paper

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On October 26th Barnaby Joyce, Australia’s prime minister, lost his seat for “allegedly” being a New Zealander. Later it was confirmed that he was. Joyce states that he “had no reason to believe he was a citizen of any other country”. This took place in Sydney, Australia. The problem with this situation is that “in section 44 of the country’s constitution” it says that you cannot be a citizen of any other country but Australia in order to be part of the country’s government. This affects many people including the citizens of Australia and their constitution. The constitution could be changed in order for this controversy to be ended. Also because this is 2017 and in Australia “a quarter of Australia's population was born overseas”. If the constitution

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