Sudmalis has been under pressure to confirm her eligibility for parliament, given her mother, Valerie Pybus, was a British immigrant. Last week Sudmalis issued a statement saying the British Home Office had confirmed that she had never held British citizenship, but she has declined to release any documents. An incoming passenger card from 25 July 1966 – found in the National Archives – shows Sudmalis listed her nationality as “British” when she returned to Australia as a 10-year-old after travelling overseas. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Incoming passenger card for Liberal MP Anne Sudmalis, then Ann Hardinge, listing her citizenship as British-Australian in 1966. When it asks her to list her nationality, and says “if British, specify country of citizenship,” Sudmalis or her father, or someone else, has written: “British.

Source: The Guardian August 21, 2017 10:11 UTC