Citizenship bill set to pass parliament

Coalition MPs have backed further amendments to the government's proposed laws to strip citizenship from those found guilty of terrorism.

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(AAP) Source: AAP

The federal government has agreed to a raft of changes to its proposed laws to strip dual-national terrorists of their Australian citizenship.

The coalition joint party room meeting on Tuesday agreed to all the recommendations of a bipartisan parliamentary inquiry.

The amended bill is expected to be debated this week and pass with Labor's support.

The parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security recommended the laws be applied retrospectively to convictions where sentences of 10 years or more have been handed down by a court.

It also sought the ability of the committee to review each declaration and the entire bill to be reviewable by the end of 2018.

No part of the bill will apply to conduct by a child aged under 10 years, with a limited exemption for a child aged under 14.

The government has added two amendments, placing the "foreign incursions and recruitment offence" in the list of scheduled offences and requiring "intention" as an element of the renunciation conduct.

Coalition MPs also agreed to a new tranche of anti-terrorism laws dealing with control orders and making the "advocacy of genocide" a crime punishable by up to seven years in jail.

In September, the Labor caucus agreed to the bill subject to all of the committee recommendations being included.


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