Revealed: taxpayers foot $11.6 million bill for Parliament's citizenship fiasco

By Fergus Hunter
Updated December 19 2017 - 3:23pm, first published 3:12pm
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and candidate for New England Barnaby Joyce at a polling booth at the McCarthy Catholic College in Tamworth during the New England by-election on Saturday 2 December 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and candidate for New England Barnaby Joyce at a polling booth at the McCarthy Catholic College in Tamworth during the New England by-election on Saturday 2 December 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and candidate for New England Barnaby Joyce at a polling booth at the McCarthy Catholic College in Tamworth during the New England by-election on Saturday 2 December 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and candidate for New England Barnaby Joyce at a polling booth at the McCarthy Catholic College in Tamworth during the New England by-election on Saturday 2 December 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

The cost of Parliament's dual citizenship imbroglio has been laid bare in the Turnbull government's mid-year budget update.

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