Canavan’s troubles deepen

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He’s got to go:

Labor has called on the Turnbull government to “come clean” about who else might be at risk of having dual citizenship amid reports that Nationals senator Matt Canavan has been listed on the Registry of Italians Residing Abroad, meaning Italian voting forms were automatically sent to him at his mother’s address for the past 10 years.

Senator Canavan resigned from his cabinet position of minister for resources and Northern Australia on Tuesday, after revealing his mother had signed him up for Italian citizenship in 2006.

Now he’s lying about it too.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.