Morning mail: Joyce blow leaves Coalition on thin ice Tuesday: The news that Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealand citizen has thrown the government into a fresh crisis. Plus: a girl has died after a car was driven into a pizzeria east of Paris Barnaby Joyce in parliament on Monday. Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian Eleanor Ainge Roy @EleanorAingeRoy Good morning, this is Eleanor Ainge Roy bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Tuesday 15 August. Top stories Constitutional law experts say the future of Barnaby Joyce is highly uncertain after it was revealed yesterday the deputy prime minister is a New Zealand citizen, making him potentially ineligible to be an MP. Malcolm Turnbull has confidently declared the high court will rule in Joyce's favour, a view percieved as "somewhat optimistic" by some experts. "On the face of it, [Joyce] is disqualified," said George Williams from the University of New South Wales. Joyce said he intended to fulfil his normal duties as deputy prime minister, because the government's legal advice indicated he would not be disqualified by the court. If Joyce is found to be ineligible to sit it would trigger a byelection in his seat of New England, and with its wafer-thin majority that's the last thing the government needs, says Katharine Murphy. A 13-year-old girl has been killed and at least five people injured after a car ploughed into the outdoor terrace of a pizza restaurant in France. Police said the BMW was "deliberately" used to attack the restaurant in a shopping centre at Sept-Sorts, in the Seine-et-Marne region east of Paris. An official with the national gendarme service said the driver was arrested soon after the incident. A judicial official said the Paris prosecutor's office, which oversees French terrorism investigations, was not involved in the case because there was no proof of terrorism at this stage. Days after Charlottesville was besieged by racist vigilantes Donald Trump has finally condemned their violence. Trump faced widespread criticism over his initial feeble response to the white nationalists. Trump bowed to overwhelming pressure on Monday and directly called out the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists who wreaked havoc on Charlottesville, leaving one woman dead and 19 injured. "Racism is evil," the US president said at the White House. "And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs." Australian coal-fired power stations produce levels of toxic air pollution that would be illegal in the US, Europe and China, and regularly exceed even the lax limits imposed on them with few or no consequences, according to an investigation by Environmental Justice Australia. The report also reveals evidence that operators of coal power plants in Australia have been gaming the systems that monitor the deadly pollution. Former Greens federal leader Bob Brown has labelled the party's New South Wales senator Lee Rhiannon a "team wrecker" who falsely styles herself on leftwing heroes such as Jeremy Corbyn. "Lee Rhiannon is as much Jeremy Corbyn as I am Santa Claus," Brown said in leading a chorus of current and former Greens criticising Rhiannon on the ABC's Four Corners. Rhiannon in turn attacked Brown for igniting tensions in the party "with public attacks". Sport Rafael Nadal will replace Andy Murray as world No1 next week after Roger Federer was forced to withdraw from the Cincinnati Open with a back problem. Only Federer could have prevented the Spaniard from returning to the summit for the first time since July 2014, with Murray guaranteed to be toppled as he continues his recuperation from a hip problem. Australian jockey Michelle Payne remains too ill to contemplate a quick return to the saddle in the UK, and has ruled herself out of riding Kaspersky in the Hungerford Stakes at Newbury on Saturday. The jockey also missed last Saturday's Shergar Cup at Ascot, but friend Jane Chapple-Hyam says there "wouldn't have been so much drama" about Payne's absence if she was a bloke. Thinking time Atypical Season 1, Netflix. Photograph: Adam Rose/Netflix/Eddy Chen/Netflix New Netflix comedy Atypical delves into the complex world of autism, the latest offering in an explosion of television and film productions featuring autistic characters. The series avoids certain cliches yet still falls victim to some false notes, writes Leslie Felperin, who is the mother of a boy on the autistim spectrum. As a mother, Felperin finds the series "deeply well-meant and probably incredibly illuminating for those who don't know much about the condition". But as a film critic, her praise is markedly cooler. Research shows the fastest and easiest way to address inequality is for people to join unions, Greg Jericho writes. The latest GDP figures show the share of national income going to employees is at 50-year lows – union membership is the one factor that workers currently have in their control to demand a fairer share of the national economic pie, he argues. The terror in Charlottesville reveals an emboldened far right that can no longer be ignored, writes Guardian Australia columnist Jason Wilson, who watched the violent events at close quarters. Despite small numbers, it became clear over the weekend that the white nationlist groups had the rudiments of an organised, effective street-fighting force, emboldened by Donald Trump's willingness to turn a blind eye. Their ability to unite disparate groups asand stage carefully crafted, menacing spectacles are intended to summon up memories of Nazi Germany and the Ku Klux Klan, he writes. What's he done now? Despite some unusually graceful language condemning racism in Virginia, Trump has retained his blunt Twitter style, lashing out at Merck & Co chief executive Kenneth Frazier, who resigned from Trump's American Manufacturing Council yesterday, saying he was taking a stand against intolerance and extremism. "Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council,he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!" Trump tweeted, loudly. Media roundup Predictable New Zealand jokes are everywhere in the wake of the Barnaby Joyce saga. "PM under long white cloud" declares the Australian, "Joyce, bro?" says The Age. "Coalition on the brink" writes the Sydney Morning Herald, "Not sweet as, bro" at the West Australian and – perhaps the best this morning – "Why so sheepish, Barnaby?" at the Advertiser. The Courier Mail goes down the same path with "Ewe have got to be joking!" The Age has an interesting report on the secret expulsions of thousands of high-school students in Victoria, with the state's ombudsman revealing that as many as 6,800 students are pushed out of Victorian state schools every year in "informal expulsions".The ABC reports that US officials have returned to Manus Island to interview refugees about resettlement in the US. . Coming up The Coalition and Labour party rooms both meet today, with Canberra in a ferment over the latest dual citizenship revelations affecting Barnaby Joyce. The former high court justice Michael Kirby will speak on human rights violations in North Korea at the Australian Institute of International Affairs in Brisbane. Kirby chaired a UN inquiry in 2014 that found abuses in North Korea rivalled those of the Nazis. Support the Guardian It might take a minute to catch up on the news, but good journalism takes time and money. If you already support Guardian Australia, your generosity is invaluable. 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