Peter Dutton revoked Neil Prakash’s Australian citizenship without consulting Fiji

Officials from minister’s department reveal he relied solely on Australian advice over case of Isis recruiter

The Australian government did not consult the Fijian government or any experts on Fijian law before determining that the Islamic State recruiter Neil Prakash had ceased to be an Australian citizen because he was Fijian.

At a committee hearing on Wednesday, home affairs department officials revealed that the minister, Peter Dutton, relied solely on the government’s own advice, despite what the shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, described as clear evidence on the public record that Prakash was not Fijian.

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