A second report recommending changes to proposed citizenship laws could be released as early as next week.
Parliament's intelligence committee on Friday released its report into a government bill to allow dual nationals involved in terrorism to be stripped of their Australian citizenship.
But the government also commissioned veteran Liberal MP Philip Ruddock and Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells to talk to the community about broader issues of citizenship and the specific issue of how the anti-terror laws would apply to someone with an "entitlement".
Mr Ruddock told AAP on Friday now that the intelligence committee had reported he and Senator Fierravanti-Wells could report "in the next week or so" on the issues they had been asked to look at.
He said a key question was whether terrorists with an unclaimed entitlement to citizenship, because a parent was born overseas, could be stripped of their citizenship without rendering them stateless.
"If we were to recommend, as we have been asked to consider, that deprivation apply to those who hold another entitlement as distinct from another citizenship ... it would involve potential further amendments," Mr Ruddock said.
Australia has signed up to two conventions committing it to uphold the right to nationality and reduce statelessness.
Mr Ruddock said he believed federal cabinet would agree to the intelligence committee's recommendations, given that they had bipartisan support.
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