ONLY A REFERENDUM CAN END CITIZENSHIP MESS

I BELIEVE that the present impasse concerning the eligibility of MHRs and senators to sit in our Parliament can only be resolved by an alteration to our Constitution and, unfortunately, a referendum.

This view is arrived at after con- sidering that, as in the recent case of Hungary and Josh Frydenberg, a country can make retrospective laws to confer citizenship upon people even without their knowledge.

I propose that the question to be asked at the referendum should be [or similar]: “That all [people nominating to sit in the Parliament shall be Australian citizens, either by birth or by naturalisation”.