Pro-Adani Australian resources minister quits over dual citizenship
Matt Canavan, who has strongly backed Adani’s Queensland mega-mine, is third senator in recent weeks to be caught out by dual citizenship rule
The Australian government’s greatest champion of the Carmichael coal mine has quit cabinet after finding out his mother registered him for Italian citizenship.
Matt Canavan said on Tuesday that his mother had made an application for Italian citizenship on his behalf without his knowledge in 2006. Italian authorities confirmed to him that he was indeed an Italian citizen.
Canavan has been the government’s most vociferous advocate for the Carmichael mine proposed for Queensland, which will be run by Indian company Adani.
Last week he told a panel show on ABC that the mine, which has applied for almost $1bn in federal loans and will set loose more annual carbon emissions than New York, should go ahead…
