Another one bites the dust

Stuff reports:

The Greens have lost their second co-deputy leader, after Larissa Waters was caught in the same constitutional dual-citizenship muddle as Aus-NZ citizen Scott Ludlam.

The Queensland senator, who was first elected in 2011, said she recently discovered she is a Canadian dual citizen, and, under section 44 of the constitution, is therefore ineligible to stand for the Australian parliament and has been forced to resign from the senate.

To lose one Senator is careless, to lose two is ….

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