More MPs could be at risk as dual citizenship crisis threatens to widen
Fears are growing that the dual citizenship crisis could take down other MPs, threatening the government's majority.
Mark Kenny is the national affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
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