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He said introducing a law like Australia s was not something the government considered. [Australia] passed their law in 2016. It s not something that the [New Zealand] government then thought that they should also do and this government doesn t think it should do either. And I think it potentially sets up a very ugly, brutal race between countries to strip citizenship of people they just don t want. That is not in keeping, I think, with our international obligations and our obligations as a country that wants to be a good nation-state citizen.
Middle East scholar and economist Karam Shaar was also against bringing in laws to revoke citizenships, saying international governments had a responsibility in the current situation in Syria.