Elections National Politics An Australian senator resigned after revealing she holds dual Canadian citizenship. By News Desk Posted on July 19, 2017 1 min read 0 0 1,255 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on Tumblr Larissa Waters, the co-deputy leader of the Greens party resigned since Australia’s constitution bars dual citizens from eligibility for election. She had the Canadian citizenship since birth. In a statement she said, “I left Canada as a baby, born to Australian parents studying and working briefly in Canada before they returned home,” she wrote. “I have lived my life thinking that as a baby I was naturalised to be Australian and only Australian, and my parents told me that I had until age 21 to actively seek Canadian citizenship.” However, she discovered that due to a decades-old law, she had been a dual citizen from birth, and a law changed a week after she was born required her to actively renounce her Canadian citizenship.
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