All they have to do is renounce their other citizenship. It doesn't stop anybody.
The problem in this case is that most of the MPs and Senators involved did not know they had dual citizenship.
Scott Ludlam (Greens) moved to Australia from New Zealand as an infant. Became an Australian citizen in his teens and assumed this extinguished his New Zealand citizenship. He should have known better in my view - the fact he was born overseas should have made him aware the possibility existed he had dual citizenship. He has been ruled ineligible. Larissa Waters (Greens) moved to Australia from Canada as an infant. Canadian citizenship law changed a week after she was born. She was under the mistaken impression that older Canadian laws required her to register as a Canadian citizen in order to claim that citizenship. That was a mistaken assumption but a somewhat understandable one. She has been ruled ineligible.
Matthew Canavan (Liberal). Born in Australia, an Australian citizen since birth. There is some possibility he may have accidentally and unknowingly acquired Italian citizenship when his mother applied for and was granted such citizenship on her own behalf considerably after he had reached adulthood. He made no effort to apply for citizenship himself. The High Court has cleared him on the basis that it is unclear whether he acquired Italian citizenship, but even if he did, as he was an adult, his own knowledge and consent was required and was not present.
Nicholas Xenophon (Xenophon Team - basically an independent). Xenophon was born in Australia and has been an Australian citizen from birth. His father emigrated to Australia from Cyprus when Cyprus was still a British colony (it became independent shortly after Xenophon was born). Xenophon formally renounced any claim he had to Greek or Cypriot citizenship before he ran for Parliament but had no idea his father had retained and passed onto him, an unusual form of British Citizenship called British Overseas Citizenship. He has been cleared by the High Court because they have ruled British Overseas Citizenship is not actually a form of citizenship that bestows any real rights and so creates no conflict.
Barnaby Joyce (National - until yesterday, the Deputy Prime Minister). Born in Australia he has been an Australian Citizen since birth. His father was New Zealand born but emigrated to Australia before the concept of New Zealand citizenship even existed in law. His father was never aware he held any form of New Zealand citizenship, and Joyce was therefore unaware any possibility that he held such citizenship by descent applied. He has been disqualified.
Fiona Nash (National). Australian born, an Australian citizen since birth. Daughter of an immigrant from Scotland, she acquired British citizenship by descent. She probably should have been aware of this possibility. She has been disqualified.
Malcolm Roberts (One Nation). Born in India to a British father, the possibility he had Indian citizenship was originally raised. He didn't but he had acquired British citizenship by descent from his father. Malcolm Roberts knew he was a British citizen, but apparently believed - wrongly - that he lost this citizenship automatically when he was naturalised as an Australian citizen. His case was the weakest and he has been disqualified.
The OZ lesbian MP leftist Penny Wong apparently started this fiasco.
Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce will renounce his New Zealand Citizenship and will stand for re-election. Prediction is that he will w9in in a land slide.
The latest News is that even two Wongs won’t make a White.
All they have to do is renounce their other citizenship. It doesn’t stop anybody.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Muslims do not renounce their original native citizenship
because it separates them from their Umma.