The High Court brought down its momentous ruling on the “citizenship seven” early this afternoon, which has resulted in four Senators (Larissa Waters and Scott Ludlam of the Greens, Fiona Nash of the Nationals and Malcolm Roberts of One Nation) and one member of the House of Representatives (Barnaby Joyce) losing their seats. Not disqualified are Nationals Senator Matt Canavan and Senator Nick Xenophon, the latter of whom will shortly be leaving anyway. The full judgement can be read here.
Broadly speaking, the court’s unanimous decision has been to take a black-letter, conservative approach to the meaning of the section, and accept the reasoning established by the court in the Sykes v Cleary ruling in 1992. It has rejected the dissenting opinion of Justice William Deane in Sykes v Cleary, who argued the second limb of the section 44(i), ensnaring any person who is “a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power”, should be understood to apply only where such rights have been actively acknowledged. As such, the court rejected various shades of argument that it was unreasonable to expect members should divest themselves of citizenship rights they do not realise they possess.
Since the court’s ruling is that the five members are retroactively disqualified from running at last year’s election, their positions will be filled by countbacks in the case of the four Senators, and by a by-election in the case of Barnaby Joyce and his seat of New England. There appears to be no reason at law why disqualified Senators could not recover their seats if their replacements agree to resign and their parties choose them to fill the resulting casual vacancy, provided they have resolved their citizenship issues in the interim. However, in none of the cases does it appear that this will happen.
To consider their circumstances in turn:
Barnaby Joyce
Most importantly, the government is now down a Deputy Prime Minister, after the court found nothing to complicate Barnaby Joyce’s status as a dual citizen of New Zealand acquired through his father. Joyce must re-contest his seat at a by-election in his seat of New England in northern New South Wales. It appears to have been agreed within the government that this will take place as soon as possible, on December 2. For now it will suffice to observe that Labor last held the seat in 1913, and has not come close to doing so in living memory. If a threat should loom to Joyce, it would appear more likely to come from an independent or minor party candidate. One of the former might be Tony Windsor, the independent member from the seat from 2001 to 2013, who fell 8.5% short of unseating Joyce in 2016 (UPDATE: Windsor has ruled this out). It should also be noted that Shooters Fishers and Farmers have polled strongly in three recent state by-elections, including a victory in the seat of Orange last year. It was presumably aided by the fact that One Nation is not officially registered at state level, a circumstance that does not apply at federal level. Ladbrokes is offering two betting options: $1.13 on Barnaby Joyce, and $5 on One Nation. Obviously a lot more will be said about this in weeks to come.
Fiona Nash
The court found nothing to complicate the fact that Nash is a dual British citizen through her Scottish-born father, which she had done nothing to renounce. The recount for her New South Wales seat makes life complicated for the Coalition in that it stands to elect a Liberal, Hollie Hughes, in place of a National.
Malcolm Roberts
Perhaps the least surprising aspect of the ruling was that Malcolm Roberts, who was born in India and did not properly renounce his British citizenship until six months after he was elected. The recount to replace him will elect Fraser Anning, about whom not much is known except that is a hotel owner from a farming background. Anning’s own eligibility appeared under a cloud due to bankruptcy proceedings but these were resolved early this month. Had it been otherwise, it would have been the fourth candidate on the One Nation who would have come into contention: Judy Smith, sister of Pauline Hanson. Suggestions that Roberts might find a way back to the Senate through the back door have been scotched by a media release on a party letterhead from Anning in which he is strongly critical of Roberts and others caught up in the controversy, and says he is “very much looking forward to being a Senator”. Roberts now says he plans to run at the looming Queensland state election.
Scott Ludlam
Here the situation was straightforward: Scott Ludlam was clearly a citizen of New Zealand, and hence ineligible under the first limb of Section 44(i). It appears to have been resolved that the Greens will accept the outcome of the recount process, which will deliver his Western Australian seat to the party’s number three candidate at last year’s double dissolution, 23-year-old disability advocate Jordon Steele-John.
Larissa Waters
The court also ruled that there was nothing to complicate the provision of Canadian nationality law that persons born in the country become citizens, and that her failure to renounce this citizenship rendered her ineligible. The recount will elect Andrew Bartlett, who held a Queensland Senate seat for the Australian Democrats from 1997 to 2008, and led the party in its terminal phase from 2004 to 2008.
Matt Canavan
Matt Canavan is off the hook because the court deemed he was not an Italian citizen. His difficulty related to the fact that he was included in a register of Italian residents abroad after his mother registered for citizenship and listed her children in the application form — which, among other things, entitled him to vote in Italian elections. However, Canavan never applied to become an Italian citizen, and the court was not of the view that the official status granted through this process amounted merely a “declaratory” acknowledgement of a status that existed in any case. The court has apparently opted to take a narrow view of the second limb of the sub-section, with his voting rights not deemed to make him “entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen”.
Nick Xenophon
Nick Xenophon has the status of a “British overseas citizen” through is Greek Cypriot father, by virtue of him having been born in a country that was a British colony at the time but has ceased to be so. The court ruled that this status does not amount to citizenship, or entitle him to the rights or privileges thereof, as it does not entail right of abode in the United Kingdom, nor entail a pledge of loyalty to it.
DTT, all of it. Briefly is right, you are incurable. Your post demonstrates that you are very frustrated, and might I say angry, and unhinged.
You spruiked the propaganda about the phony, debunked Clinton uranium ‘story’, right in lockstep with Russian propaganda. All while, naively, you seem unaware that this was a predictable ratcheting up of anti-Clinton propaganda by Trump/Russia once they got wind of the coming Mueller indictments.
Your post implies that you harbor communist/Russian/Putin sympathies. You defend Putin who is a murderous, corrupt, bigoted dictator. The reason Putin favored Trump is because Putin hates Clinton with a passion. This has been the conclusion of the US intelligence agencies with a high level of confidence. And, of course, he wanted to destablise US democracy and Western democracy in general (he has succeeded in this beyond his wildest dreams).
You seem incapable of accepting the fact that given the choice between Clinton and Trump (the only choice), you chose Trump. The most damning criticism of Trump you can muster in your post is that he is ‘temperamental’. Reality is that since the election, you have been proved to be devastatingly wrong. Yet you keep coming back for more and more humiliation.
swamprat
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I have no idea who C@tmomma is.
That’s very plain….but I know her. And I can assure you, she is a hearty fighter. She has endured much and given more than most.
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I suppose you do realise that the economic stuff I mentioned comes from financial papers not RT. It is fact not fiction.
For example it is fact that the Chinese and Russians are hoarding gold.
It is fact that China has offered to buy oil with yuan backed by gold.
It is fact that some other oil producers are keen to join China in trading in yuan and gold.
Now as to the financial implications of these facts you certainly can have an opinion and indeed it may well be that they will have negligible impact.
However you are doing a Malcolm Roberts to deny them as actual facts.
swamprat
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haha
i was not saying you started the American Mutiny. I was gently poiting out that self-determination started well before 1948.
Yah….but the language of self-determination with which we’re familiar gained currency in the post-war era. It’s an idea that has faded from use though I think it’s still important, together with the concepts of emancipation, equal protection and solidarity.
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Did not the Incas, Aztecs and other Americans fight (unsuccessfully) against the conquest by the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th cenrtury?
Were they not legitimately fighting for seld determination, well before 1948?
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“though I think it’s still important”
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Alleleluia!!!!!
daretotread
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I suppose you do realise that the economic stuff I mentioned comes from financial papers not RT. It is fact not fiction.
For example it is fact that the Chinese and Russians are hoarding gold.
This is a completely different subject….no surprise there.
For their sakes, I hope gold-hoarding does not catch on. It will destroy their economies.
swamprat…I’m more interested in what self-determination might mean for the first peoples of Australia and NZ in the 21st century, or what it must mean in the struggle for peace and equality for black people in the US or the UK, or how post-colonial development is proceeding in Timor L’Este.
I think of this as applying not only at a national level, but also sub-nationally and across borders; and within small communities too.
One of France 24 rolling news banners at the moment (almost all the others relate to Spain/Catelonia) –
Makes it sound like we’ve had a coup!
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One of my “obsessions” is a belief that Austrlia would blossom if it became more “Aboriginal”.
Aboriginal culture has so much to to teach us about relating to this extraordinary lcountry and the wisdom required to live in it and WITH it.
I think Aboriginal culture has much to teach us about a religion/ spirituality at home in Australia.
Middle eastern gods are not appropriate to/in this country.
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We should send them Costello to help.
swamprat
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One of my “obsessions” is a belief that Austrlia would blossom if it became more “Aboriginal”.
Aboriginal culture has so much to to teach us about relating to this extraordinary lcountry and the wisdom required to live in it and WITH it.
I think Aboriginal culture has much to teach us about a religion/ spirituality at home in Australia.
I agree.
[CTar1
One of France 24 rolling news banners at the moment (almost all the others relate to Spain/Catelonia) –
Australia: Canberra appoints emergency acting PM among citizenship crisis
Makes it sound like we’ve had a coup!]
Yes, it may be slightly presumptive. 🙂
What Charles said! With bells on!
CTar1 @ #805 Sunday, October 29th, 2017 – 12:37 am
lol. He’ll sell it almost all off to the lowest bidder. 🙂
Makes it sound like we’ve had a coup!
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They may be refering to the 1975 coup.
I remember it well.
No Charles
I am not the least bit humiliated, because frankly i do not think any posters here have sufficient grasp of reality or world events to seriously challenge what I say or comment in any way that makes me feel even slightly humiliated.
You however actually have shown a modicum of actual understanding, so I will give you a reply.
“Frustrated, and might I say angry” Yes true, and “unhinged” – not at all – I regard Briefly and Bemused and many others as essentially unhinged. Most I think are naive and obtuse. .
“You spruiked the propaganda about the phony, debunked Clinton uranium ‘story’, right in lockstep with Russian propaganda. All while, naively, you seem unaware that this was a predictable ratcheting up of anti-Clinton propaganda by Trump/Russia once they got wind of the coming Mueller indictments.”
Charles. You should probably read what I write more carefully. I actually agree that the Clinton uranium thing is a predictable ratcheting up of the story by Trump/Russia. But that is the point PREDICTABLE. My point was simply that its being released will seriously damage the “Russiagate” meme. That is obvious and could be assumed it would occur at some point. Forget Russia and Trump and assume it was any other isssue – wine women song, links to UK etc. As sure as night follows day, once you go after any sort of “xxgate”opponents will return fire.
“our post implies that you harbor communist/Russian/Putin sympathies. ”
Yes. I do not really even try to deny this. As a lefty of the Vietnam war days I accept this. I am not a Commie but i sure do have sympathy and was raised to dislike USA by my Socialist father and oddly enough by my very Scottish but conservative mothers family who disliked yanks because they were vulgar. What gets on my goat is the blind unthinking hatred of Russia that is so common amongst right wingers including right wing labor people. Note Briefly using the term imperialist about Russia which is frankly rather absurd. I have no problem with people criticising Russia or any other country provided it is not hypocritical. It is frankly laughable for people to comment on Russian expansionism or aggression without commenting on the USA Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria, Irq, Libya, Sudan Niger etc etc.
“You defend Putin who is a murderous, corrupt, bigoted dictator.”
Putin may be murderous but not proven in a court and honestly the idea he would use polonium is really very silly and looks remarkably like a set up. Now while Putin probably is corrupt, compared to those who preceded him he is a saint. I think the whole of the USA congress is corrupt as are most US allies, so spare me the hypocrisy. Bigoted. Yes I accept that one – at least as far as gays are concerned. Not sure about others. Now the dictator stuff is just wrong and you should be ashamed to push that idea. Putin was elected. There is no doubt on that one and all the polling shows he would be elected again. If you want me to treat you as a credible commentator stop spouting US propaganda.
“The reason Putin favored Trump is because Putin hates Clinton with a passion. This has been the conclusion of the US intelligence agencies with a high level of confidence.”
Yes agree
“And, of course, he wanted to destablise US democracy and Western democracy in general (he has succeeded in this beyond his wildest dreams).”
This is a embarrassing load of propaganda twaddle Charles. Everything I have read suggests Putin was quite keen to work with the USA, but got a little disturbed by having US forces on his borders. Nothing whatsoever to do with undermining “democracy” and rather more to do with dismantlu US missiles.
“You seem incapable of accepting the fact that given the choice between Clinton and Trump (the only choice), you chose Trump. ”
Yup. I accept it. If I was wrong I will say so. Deal!
“The most damning criticism of Trump you can muster in your post is that he is ‘temperamental’. ”
Well charles I am happly to add corrupt, sleazebag, weakling into the mix if you would like.
“Reality is that since the election, you have been proved to be devastatingly wrong. Yet you keep coming back for more and more humiliation.”
No Charles. I am not yet wrong, but it may well be that it made no difference. I am not humiliated.
Those of you who spout Murdockh propaganda are the ones who I regard as fools.
swamp
France24 can be a little old fashioned at times (EuroNews a bit more trendy) but I think they’ve stopped reporting 1975 breaking news at least a couple of years ago.
I want to protect Australia from your kind.
Though it is typical, goes back to the Rum Corps, that the ruiners of the country try to equate their actions with the a perverse idea of “loyalty”.
I think Australia would be a much better place if you and bemused and most of the ALP and all the LNP moved to Alabama and left those who want a grown up and independent Australia here.
There’s some really amusing posts on here tonight!
I think this sums up the opinion of many here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjaqrPpdQYc
Oh, I give up! The gerbils ate my post and it’s way past my bedtime.
Suffice to say it basically made the point that I wear out my shoe leather supporting an egalitarian Australia and the party that has spilt blood to see Workers get a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work, and swamprat thinks he can change the world from his armchair.
Good night!
DTT, that Putin hates the USA, and western liberal democracies in general and wants to deligitimise and disrupt them, is backed up conclusively by the intelligence agencies. What you said on the subject was utter nonsense.
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No Charles
Yes, incurably hacked.
Russia is certainly imperialist, and, led by its current military college, has become territorially expansionist, setting out to annex possessions lost when the Soviet Union was dissolved. Russia threatens its former client, Ukraine and fosters an insurrection there. Russia is a belligerent power, though, of course, it is not unique in this.
DTT has doubled down on being a supporter and defender of the murderous, corrupt, bigoted dictator, Vladimir Putin. Now it is clear for all on Poll Bludger to see.
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For their sakes, I hope gold-hoarding does not catch on. It will destroy their economies.
We should send them Costello to help.
🙂
Charles
DTT has doubled down on being a supporter and defender of the murderous, corrupt, bigoted dictator, Vladimir Putin. Now it is clear for all on Poll Bludger to see.
She’s quite proud to defend the kleptocrat, Colonel Putin.
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What a load of nonsense you spout.
In what way exactly in Russia Imperialist. Does it have overseas bases (I will allow you Syria) but compared to the bases of other imperialist nations – USA, UK, China (recent), France they are pretty insignificant.
Expansionist certainly but essentially only to Russian speaking areas who were not happy being included into staes that were no Russian – Crimea which has been part of Russia for 200 years and Ossetia where the Russian ethnics preferred to be in Russia rather than Georgia. I cannot get too upset by that. Some arms to the Donbass but there are US arms in the Baltic so I am not sure who is expansionist. Compared with the USA who have troops everywhere Russian expansionism is minimal.
As to the Ukraine – er um who was it that incited the coup, amazingly and immorally les than 12 months before a scheduled election. It was not Russia but your buddies USA. Hypocrisy thy name is Briefly.
And Briefly – Yep I rather like Putin though I think once Russia had emerged out of the economic doldrums and restored its country to security militarily and economically Putin would NOT be a good guy to keep around.
Now you use the term kleptocrat about Putin, Fine probably true, but what in the name of dog do you call the US bankers and ALL the US politicians who sponge money every which way. As usual you are a hypocrite.
Finally on the gold stuff I am sad Briefly. You are being an idiot. Your thinking is outmoded and stuck in Economics II 1978. I am not going to even try to argue the case for or against gold because I have no idea, but nor do you and for you to arrogantly suggest that the Chinese have blundered is really the sign of unbelievable arrogance. They must have a reason for their yuan/gold proposal. When it comes to trade and all things monetary I think I would back China over virtually everybody in Australia or the US.
Charles
Oh dear!!! Sorry i thought you were rational and objective. I shall not bother again.
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One of the first orders of the Spanish State against the Catalonian State is to disband a commission set up to inquire into police illegalities during the referendum vote.
I hate Putin and Trump. That does not mean I hate Russia or the US.
Putin is a dick to young artists and gays, and then does weird homo-erotic photos of himself wrestling wildlife. He should get out of the closet.
Chris Sheridan writes a weekly column on Al Jazerra on happenings in US politics. He’s usually a fairly entertaining read.
This week he has a section of it that starts out with –
And another section –
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/week-trump-land-171028073515150.html
QLD election looking likely. How much of an impact could federal issues have?
Trump is a genius. He invented “fake” and “priming the pump”. He also invented new definitions for “tacky”,”gaudy” and “dumb as a box of hammers”. He’s also brilliant at noticing when people aren’t fat.
I just remembered this story.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-us-election-donald-trump-st-petersburg-troll-farm-hillary-clinton-a8005276.html
I’m sure many on here would know about the fake news advertisement on social media regarding Hillary Clinton that was purchased by Russia.Experts believe the ad was viewed by between 340 million and 1 billion people. All that influence at the cost of just $100,000.
Putin is not a imperialist in the classic sense but he definitely has territorial strategic ambitions outside of the ‘rump’ that was left after the fall of the USSR.
His chosen methodology is to support the existence of medieval style subservient ‘client kings’.
Some examples are Lukashenko in Belarus, Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, Kadyrov in the Chechen Republic and Berdimuhamedow in Turkistan.
His latest is el Asad in Syria who would be ‘gone’ by now without Putin’s support. It’s a slightly different model in that it does not adjoin the other Russian client states but provides a secure place for Russia to have a large naval and air force base in the Middle East and leapfrog Turkey and to exert pressure on Iran.
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The number of sayings that existed before Trump was born that he claims he ‘invented’ is legendary.
Not long ago he laid claim to at least one of Mark Twain’s.
grimace
The primaries last election were 52% Barnaby 29% Windsor.
58.5% – 41.5% after the distribution of preferences.
Good luck with overturning Barnaby.
The swing in the recent WA election was 12.8%, and a number of swings in the high teens, so overrunning Barnyard is not without recent precedent.
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We’ve just had a local council election. The Nationals candidate got in on the first round, and is now Mayor.
The natives are not restless here.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers. It’s Sunday, so fairly slim pickings today.
Peta Credlin really piles into the Turnbull government here. Google.
/rendezview/the-turnbull-government-now-a-vortex-of-shambles/news-story/773087440318d1d256d9418fef804be8
Katharine Murphy begins this article with “f we step back from the controversy surrounding the tip-off of the police raids on the Australian Workers’ Union, this was a revealing week in federal politics. To understand why it was revealing, we need to mute the shouting and examine what is actually going on.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/28/coalitions-night-terrors-play-out-in-public-as-kill-bill-missive-backfires
Anna Patty on the spotlight shifting to the independence of the ROC.
http://www.theage.com.au/business/workplace-relations/buzzfeed-report-on-awu-raid-leak-raises-concerns-about-independence-of-roc-20171025-gz8hqj.html
The government has gone into damage control as Turnbull heads overseas.
http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2017/10/28/turnbull-israel-trip/
Bishop has said there is a “powerful argument” that US President Donald Trump’s threat to scrap the Iran nuclear deal could imperil efforts to negotiate a peaceful outcome with North Korea. You get tick for that one, Mesma!
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bishop-warns-trumps-iran-backflip-could-weaken-pressure-on-north-korea-20171027-gz9t0j.html
The High court decision leaves the Greens as well as the Liberal and National parties facing tricky internal pressures.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/27/turmoil-ahead-as-larissa-waters-and-fiona-nash-plan-for-comeback
Amy Remeikis entertainingly farewells Malcolm Roberts. She has a nice turn of phrase.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/28/malcolm-roberts-was-convinced-his-beliefs-spoke-louder-than-facts
Michaela Whitbourn tells us about Mehajer’s latest project – a monster defamation suit.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/salim-mehajer-promises-to-launch-australias-largest-defamation-case-20171027-gza2sg.html
Peter FitzSimons scratches his head over how any political party could so stuff up the issue of citizenship qualifications.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-do-supposedly-serious-political-organisations-stuff-up-something-as-basic-as-citizenship-qualifications-20171027-gz9ngr.html
Good morning Dawn Patrollers. It’s Sunday, so fairly slim pickings today.
Peta Credlin really piles into the Turnbull government here. Google.
/rendezview/the-turnbull-government-now-a-vortex-of-shambles/news-story/773087440318d1d256d9418fef804be8
Katharine Murphy begins this article with “f we step back from the controversy surrounding the tip-off of the police raids on the Australian Workers’ Union, this was a revealing week in federal politics. To understand why it was revealing, we need to mute the shouting and examine what is actually going on.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/28/coalitions-night-terrors-play-out-in-public-as-kill-bill-missive-backfires
Anna Patty on the spotlight shifting to the independence of the ROC.
http://www.theage.com.au/business/workplace-relations/buzzfeed-report-on-awu-raid-leak-raises-concerns-about-independence-of-roc-20171025-gz8hqj.html
The government has gone into damage control as Turnbull heads overseas.
http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2017/10/28/turnbull-israel-trip/
Bishop has said there is a “powerful argument” that US President Donald Trump’s threat to scrap the Iran nuclear deal could imperil efforts to negotiate a peaceful outcome with North Korea. You get tick for that one, Mesma!
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bishop-warns-trumps-iran-backflip-could-weaken-pressure-on-north-korea-20171027-gz9t0j.html
The High court decision leaves the Greens as well as the Liberal and National parties facing tricky internal pressures.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/27/turmoil-ahead-as-larissa-waters-and-fiona-nash-plan-for-comeback
Amy Remeikis entertainingly farewells Malcolm Roberts. She has a nice turn of phrase.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/28/malcolm-roberts-was-convinced-his-beliefs-spoke-louder-than-facts
Michaela Whitbourn tells us about Mehajer’s latest project – a monster defamation suit.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/salim-mehajer-promises-to-launch-australias-largest-defamation-case-20171027-gza2sg.html
Peter FitzSimons scratches his head over how any political party could so stuff up the issue of citizenship qualifications.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-do-supposedly-serious-political-organisations-stuff-up-something-as-basic-as-citizenship-qualifications-20171027-gz9ngr.html
Section 2 . . .
Papua New Guinea has deployed its notorious “paramilitary” police squad to assist with the imminent shutdown of the Manus Island detention centre, warning refugees’ safety cannot be guaranteed.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/png-sends-in-paramilitary-as-police-warn-safety-cant-be-guaranteed-in-manus-move-20171027-gz9h02.html
I know these “dark supermarkets” are springing up in China too.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/food-trends-go-from-plate-to-dark-supermarkets-20171026-gz95g2.html
The pursuit of a ‘single-payer’ healthcare system in the United States will degenerate into corporate welfare unless America takes on healthcare monopolies.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/28/big-medicine-monopoly-medicare-for-all
Week 6 of Jess Irvine’s diary of her search for a first home.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/diary-of-a-first-home-buyer-week-6-home-sweet-tax-shelter-20171027-gz9za1.html
Former excellent religious writer for Fairfax, Barney Zwartz, writes about the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-martin-luther-and-christianitys-dangerous-idea-made-the-world-we-live-in-20171025-gz7qni.html
The Uniting Church redress scheme for sexual abuse survivors is under fire.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/nsw/uniting-church-redress-scheme-for-sexual-abuse-survivors-under-fire-20171026-gz8l01.html
Eleven of the best tweets on the High Court drama.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/10/27/11-of-the-best-tweets-about-our-weird-high-court-citizenship-drama_a_23259045/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
Two of Australia’s leading arts donors have launched an attack on the federal government’s arts funding agency, accusing it of “outrageous behaviour” and lacking the skills to represent artists.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-council-accused-of-outrageous-behaviour-over-changes-to-venice-biennale-20171027-gz9t9m.html
Is the Victorian prison system heading for another disaster?
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/victorias-prison-system-is-on-track-for-another-disaster-20171025-gz821x.html
Section 3 . . . Cartoon Corner
Matt Golding sends Barnaby off to vote.
Peter Broelman sees Barnaby out of the High Court.
Ron Tandberg in Point Piper.
Off to New England with Paul Zanetti.
A couple of good ones from Matt Golding.
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Jon Kudelka quotes Turnbull.
More from Kudelka.
Alan Moir and the time Turnbull is having as PM.
Mark Knight has proposed a national anthem in honour of Barnaby.
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/462eac1a802b23a586004d64b1109375?width=1024
QLD election on 25th November
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/state-election-2017/queensland-election-2017-mp-dramas-trigger-early-poll/news-story/83dd2dc932160d4cc94e90b42bef2150
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