CANBERRA, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- A Senator of Australian Tasmania state is the latest politician to be embroiled in Australia's political citizenship saga.
Jacqui Lambie, leader of the Jacqui Lambie Network, on Thursday insisted that she does not hold a Scottish citizenship despite her father being born there.
Under Section 44 of the Australian Constitution, anyone who is a citizen of a country other than Australia is ineligible to be elected to federal parliament.
The saga has seen six parliamentarians disqualified from their positions by the High Court with as many as three others also under pressure to provide documents relating to their status.
Lambie said that she discovered in recent weeks that her father had migrated to Australia from Scotland as an infant.
"I'm happy to put on record that I'm satisfied that my parents are both Australian citizens and I have no concerns about me being a dual citizen because of where they were born or came from, in the case of my father, as an infant," she told News Limited on Wednesday night.
"His father, my grandfather, came to Australia to enlist in the Army in fact. As far as I'm concerned all their affairs are in order as are mine.
"A citizenship audit of all parliamentarians will clear the air once and for all which is why I'm supporting such a move 100 percent."
Under United Kingdom (UK) law, the offspring of a British-born father automatically assume British citizenship.
Fiona Nash, a Senator for the Nationals Party, was ruled ineligible to serve in parliament by the High Court after it was found she held a British citizenship on account of her father also being born in Scotland.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has refused to enable an audit of all 221 remaining federal politicians, instead opting for new laws that will force all parliamentarians to declare their citizenship status by Dec. 18.
Turnbull requires the support of the Opposition Australian Labor Party to pass the bill, however, and opposition leader Bill Shorten has not budged from his position that all documents should be declared by Dec. 1.
