Cormann waters down cabinet claims
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Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has dismissed claims that draft laws to strip terror suspects of their citizenship are being deliberately kept from cabinet.
Senator Cormann says it's appropriate that reworked legislation be approved by cabinet's national security committee rather than the full cabinet, amid claims it's an attempt to deny opponents a say on the proposal.
"These are matters that cabinet delegates to the NSC," he told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.
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