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He’s got to go:

The Opposition laughs in excitement as Bill Shorten tells the PM how the New Zealand government has confirmed Joyce is a citizen of NZ.

Turnbull says the High Court will find in Joyce’s favour, winning jeers from the Labor backbench.

“The Leader of the National Party, the Deputy Prime Minister, is …qualified to sit in this House, and the High Court (find so),” he says.

Manager of Opposition Business Tony Burke asks if the government will stop taking Joyce’s vote.

Not a chance.

Puss off, bro, a.

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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.