Update on Australian Politics

So. Shit's going down again. But less explosively (?) this time. (see last post for context: https://imgur.com/gallery/5ary8)

For those who missed it (which I'm guessing is a lot) a number of Australian politicians have been kicked out of their respective Houses of parliament for having dual citizenship with other countries, which according to our Constitution is a big no-no. That number is 5, if you were wondering - 5 got kicked out, 2 were allowed to stay in.

This man here is Stephen Parry, President of the Senate. The Senate is the Upper House of Australian parliament, so basically he's in change of the Senators (if anyone's curious about how our political system works let me know and I'll make a separate post about it). Turns out Parry's father was born in Britain, and he has dual citizenship with Britain. As the President of the Senate, he's the one who referred the Senators who citizenship was in doubt to the High Court, which is a bit awkward because now he... has to refer himself?
Actually, he went ahead and resigned as both a Senator and the President of the Senate. So... that was easy.

I've actually met this guy. Frankly... he's pretty boring. Not much to say about him. I met him because a teacher at my school is a former Senator and knew Parry. Parry actually told my teacher to get a haircut - which is on record forever now in the annals of Australia government because technically he said it as part of his official duties so that's now official.

TL;DR Important person figures out he's not eligible to serve in parliament, actually resigns rather than kicking up a fuss.