Your afternoon Briefing

Good afternoon, readers. After a historic week, the news cycle has come full circle and returned to the dual-citizenship fiasco.

Good afternoon, readers. After a historic week, the news cycle has come full circle and returned to the dual-citizenship fiasco.

John Alexander cleared for tilt at Bennelong

Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop (left) and former member for Bennelong John Alexander visit Eastwood Mall in Sydney, Wednesday, November 15, 2017. Bennelong, held by the Liberals with a margin of more than nine per cent, is up for grabs after John Alexander was forced to resign over dual citizenship concerns. (AAP Image/Peter Rae) No Archiving

Liberal candidate John Alexander has successfully renounced any British citizenship he may have held, freeing him to run in the Bennelong by-election which was triggered when he resigned due to concerns he was a dual-citizen. In other Bennelong news, Cory Bernardi is threatening to set loose an Australian Conservatives candidate in the Sydney electorate which voted No in the same-sex marriage postal survey.

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Former Prime Minister Paul Keating speaking at the Sohn Hearts and Minds investment conference, which brings together leading investors from Australia and around the world to share their best investment ideas to raise money for medical research. (Jane Dempster/The Australian)

Keating blasts Turnbull’s “barren” foreign policy

Former PM Paul Keating has slammed the Turnbull government’s foreign policy as “barren” as he warns China is hellbent on achieving economic parity with the USA by 2021.

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“I was very crook.”

Bob Hawke nearly died in 2015. In Trent Dalton’s latest piece for tomorrow’s The Weekend Australian Magazine, the most statistically popular Australian prime minister who ever lived reveals his brush with death.

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Australia’s property hot spots

Do you know where the hottest property market in Australia is? Hint: It’s not Sydney or Melbourne.

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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai speaks to the Associated Press after giving a press conference at his home in Harare, Zimbabwe Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. Tsvangirai said President Robert Mugabe must resign and called for a negotiated, inclusive transitional mechanism as well as comprehensive reforms before elections. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Battered hero’s last tilt at power

Former trade union leader Morgan Tsvangirai has paid a heavy price for daring to take on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. Now, in what is likely his last tilt at power, the Movement for Democratic Change leader looks set to strike a deal with a man known as the Crocodile.