Federal politics right now resembles a shapeless game of under-6 soccer.

The ball is a rolling crisis lurching back and forth, chased around by a pack of hapless politicians, with a Government team captain unwilling or unable to lead.

It's not surprising the own goals keep mounting up.

The citizenship saga is edging towards a full-blown constitutional crisis.

There are very real questions now about whether the Government legitimately has the numbers to govern in the House of Representatives.

Seven senators have now been disqualified from a pool of 76 in the Upper House.

Yet, Barnaby Joyce is the only MP out of 150 in the House of Representatives to have lost his seat.

Those numbers don't seem to add up.

There are more MPs in the Lower House who, based on previous benchmarks, should be referred to the High Court.

It's not hard to guess why the Government and Labor are resisting the prospect of an audit.

It's self-interest, plain and simple.

After spending $122 million on the same-sex marriage postal survey, the Government's claim that an audit would be too complex and too costly is laughable.

The Government is leaving it up to journalists to try and uncover the truth about people's citizenship, yet some of its own MPs refuse to provide documentation to prove they are ridgy-didge.

Labor's position is equally absurd.

Attacking the Government for its problems, while insisting all Labor MPs are fine, yet refusing to show any documentation — except in the case of the leader, who apparently has a higher benchmark.

'Australians are not concerned about it'

The Treasurer today suggested the media should just look away.

"It's one of the reasons why Australians are turning down the sound on Canberra and it's not just on politicians, it's on the media as well," he told journalists in Melbourne.

"This issue is not something that Australians are concerned about."

Believe me, we would love to cover good Government. It's been a while.

But when an elected member of Parliament, the president of the Senate no less, is told by a Cabinet member to keep concerns that he might have been unlawfully elected secret, it's a story. And it stinks.

Who could blame voters for seeking out alternatives in One Nation or Nick Xenophon.

The Greens and are the only party whose hands are clean here.

Its senators set aside their self-interest and quit as soon as their dual citizenship became apparent.

Now, they rightly call for an independent investigation of all sitting members.

The Prime Minister, as usual, is trying to ride this crisis out, without making any decisions that might upset the apple cart.

That means he, along with the rest of his team, will be left chasing the ball and down the field, hoping it doesn't end up in their goal, yet again.