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VIDEO LINK: Barnaby Joyce dual citizenship saga: the awkward video that’s come back to haunt him
The Nationals leader was on Channel Nine’s Today show barely a fortnight ago cracking jokes about being a dual citizen. Needless to say, he’s not laughing now.
Reporter Deborah Knight said she threw the “bit of a joke question” at Mr Joyce as the saga of MPs being dual citizens was embroiling Canberra.
Greens politicians Larissa Waters and Scott Ludlam had fallen on their swords and both government minister Matt Canavan and One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts had been referred to the High Court.
“Have you gone back (and) triple, quadruple-checked your own background there,” she asked in the interview.
Mr Joyce brushed off the suggestion, saying “everyone has had the conversation with their mothers and fathers”.
“’When I was asleep, did you make me a citizen of Botswana?’” he laughed.
“I am an Australian — no problems there,” he concluded.
Two weeks on, there is a very big problem for Mr Joyce and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s majority government.
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