According to The Australian:
Labor MP Justine Keay has conceded she did not receive confirmation her British citizenship had been renounced and registered until after the July election, as she becomes the latest MP to clarify her citizenship status following several bungles.
Questions had been raised over Ms Keay, a Tasmanian who gained British citizenship through her father, after she declined to provide the relevant paperwork proving she had renounced her dual citizenship.
The first-term MP had also refused to say what confirmation if any she received from the British government.
A person who is a dual national at time of nominating or on the day they are elected is deemed ineligible to sit in parliament under section 44 of the Constitution.
Under increasing scrutiny, Ms Keay today outlined the “reasonable steps” she took to renounce her citizenship before nominations closed to run for parliament on June 9 last year. However she has not released documents backing up her version of events.
While defending the processes she went through, Ms Keay acknowledged on 89.3 LAFM radio she did not receive confirmation of her non-citizenship by the UK government until July 8, a month after nominations closed and a week after the July 2 election.
She said her renunciation was registered on July 11.
The revelation has sparked fresh speculation within government ranks she may be ineligible to be in parliament but University of New South Wales constitutional law expert George Williams said it appeared Ms Keay had done “everything she could have possibly done” to renounce her dual nationality before the election.
“It sounds quite meticulous. It wasn’t left to the last minute and of course people can’t do things before preselection or they know they’re running for office,” he said.
“It does sound like an example where a person was a dual citizen at the wrong time but has done would was expected of them to revoke that status. It sounds reasonable to me.”
I understand that both Malcolm Roberts and Justine Keay tried to renounce their British citizenship before the election. However they were still elected as dual citizens. Is that allowed? Or will the High Court need to clarify this?