Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Attorney-General. When my former colleagues, Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters, discovered they were ineligible as dual citizens, the member for New England, or is it the member for New Zealand, Barnaby Joyce, told the local paper, the Northern Daily—as we heard earlier:

… you can't be a member of parliament and have dual citizenship—it's black and white.

He also said:

… unfortunately, ignorance is not an excuse.

Minister, why does the government believe one set of rules apply to other MPs and a completely different set of rules apply to the Liberal Party and the Nationals?