Australia news LIVE: Crossbench rages as electoral reforms pass; Dutton calls for debate on powers to revoke citizenship

A public debate should consider the “inadequacies of the migration system” that allowed for a nurse who “hates our country” to be granted citizenship, says Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

Footage emerged on Wednesday of two NSW nurses appearing to vow not to treat, and even kill, Israeli patients. One of the nurses in the video, Rashad Nadir, fled from Afghanistan with his family as a child and recently became an Australian citizen.

Speaking to 2GB’s Ben Fordham this morning, Dutton said it should be of a “deep concern” that someone like Nadir could “get through the net” and become an Australian citizen.

“To take citizenship or strip citizenship from somebody, there are constitutional constraints, and at some stage, our country has to have a discussion, I think, about the way in which the whole migration system works,” Dutton said.

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The opposition leader said the Migration Act allows for the revocation of citizenship in the instance of a false declaration, usually around people who have committed acts of terrorism, but added: “Even that is limited”.

Dutton then referred to a 2023 high court decision that allowed a terror cell leader to stay in the country, overturning a decision he made as home affairs minister to revoke his citizenship.

“I think it’s a conversation for our country at some point, maybe sooner than later, about how we can say to these people, if you don’t share our values, if you’re here and you’re enjoying the welfare system and you’re enjoying free health and free education, then at the same time you hate our country? Well, I don’t think you’ve got a place here.”

Read more about the investigation into the nurses’ video here.