Citizenship laws head to parliament

National security and the budget will continue to dominate parliament as it nears the winter break.

The details of new citizenship laws will be revealed next week when Immigration Minister Peter Dutton brings legislation to parliament.

Coalition MPs will be briefed on the bill on Tuesday and the minister is expected to introduce it on Wednesday.

It will allow the minister to strip the Australian citizenship of dual national terrorism suspects.

The joint intelligence committee of the parliament will launch an inquiry into the bill and take public and private submissions.

The sitting week is the last before the six-week winter break and the government plans to pass as many of its outstanding 2014 and 2015 budget measures as possible.

The coalition is guaranteed the passage of pension changes, which have been split into packages of bills which will be separately passed with the support of Labor and the Greens.

On Wednesday, the Senate will hear the first speech of NSW Labor senator Jenny McAllister, who replaced veteran upper house member John Faulkner.

The Greens will seek inquiries into the video game industry and allegations that cash was paid to people smugglers in order to get them to return to Indonesia.

Reports into forestry investment schemes, transport energy resilience, stormwater management, proposed Parliament House security upgrade works, treaties and medicinal cannabis will be tabled in the Senate on Thursday.


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