Morrison government to make it easier to strip citizenship from people convicted of terrorism

Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton to lower the bar to remove Australian citizenship from a dual citizen convicted of a terror offence

The Morrison government has announced it will lower the bar to strip dual Australian citizens with terrorism convictions of their citizenship and impose new restrictions preventing the return of foreign fighters.

Scott Morrison and the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, announced the measures in Sydney on Thursday, ratcheting up pressure on Labor to pass encryption cracking laws in the next fortnight.

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