BFM Podcast

Australia - Divisive Debates Come to A Boil

Tan KW
Publish date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017, 02:52 PM

Jordan Heng, Fellow, ASLI Centre for Public Policy Studies

24-Aug-17 13:06

 

The Australian High Court begins hearings today on whether elected parliamentary representatives identified as holding dual-citizenship can keep their jobs. This follows recent revelations that several members of parliament - including Cabinet ministers - held dual-citizenship when they were elected. Its causing a massive headache for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government as his Liberal Party and its coalition partners have only a thin-majority in Parliament. Together with the burkah-wearing stunt of Pauline Hanson as well as the rancour of the same-sex marriage plebiscite, we ask if politics Down Under is getting more divisive?

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