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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:04 am

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Post by JimC » Sat Oct 21, 2017 8:49 pm

Leunig is definitely one of the great cartoonists. He's off with the pixies, though...
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Post by tattuchu » Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:52 am

I bought a 2-lb. bag of macadamia nuts and I'm eating them by the fistfull. BY THE FISTFULL.

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Post by mistermack » Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:06 am

Thanks for Paul Hogan.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Nov 11, 2017 3:29 am

It's getting silly now.
Citizenship crisis: John Alexander resigns and triggers byelection

The Liberal MP John Alexander will resign from parliament, triggering a snap byelection, and increasing the precarious position of the Turnbull government.

After days of speculation, Alexander confirmed his intention to resign, a development which reduces the government’s numbers in the lower house to 73, minus the Speaker, because Barnaby Joyce is already contesting a byelection in New England courtesy of having been ruled ineligible by the high court.

Alexander said after checks with the British Home Office, he no longer had sufficient certainty that he was a sole Australian citizen, so he had no choice but to resign.

Alexander said on Saturday he intended to seek the support of the Liberal party to re-contest his seat of Bennelong, which he holds by a 9.8% margin. A contest in the seat could be underway before Christmas.

The New England byelection is scheduled for December 2.

“My right to remain in parliament depends on my belief that I am solely Australian,” Alexander told reporters in Sydney.

“Given what I have learned about the constitution and understanding now of the high court decision just a couple of weeks ago, I can no longer, with sufficient certainty, maintain the belief that I have held through my 66 years,” he said.

“Therefore, it is my obligation that I must resign. That’s what I will do. I think there is a great need for certainty, to clarify the situation and to do so as expeditiously as possible.”...

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Post by JimC » Sat Nov 11, 2017 3:49 am

It's really about weird laws in other countries which confer citizenship for the vaguest of family connections, coupled with the inflexible wording of an Australian constitution written when such complications did not exist.

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Post by NineBerry » Sat Nov 11, 2017 4:16 am

So, that means that any other country (e.g. North Korea) could blackmail any future Australian prime minister by threatening to grant him their citizenship.

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Post by JimC » Sat Nov 11, 2017 5:01 am

NineBerry wrote:So, that means that any other country (e.g. North Korea) could blackmail any future Australian prime minister by threatening to grant him their citizenship.
Well, it has to be in the other country's legal system, and there has to be at least a vague family connection. If a prospective politician who potentially has some form of dual citizenship takes the legal steps to formally renounce their other citizenship before being elected, then all is well. The current issue is down to the fact of most of them being totally unaware of the possibility. This was possibly the case for years, but in recent months, the discovery on a few examples plus some serious investigative journalism has resulted in an avalanche of potential cases, all of which need to be sorted out by our High Court.
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Post by pErvinalia » Sat Nov 11, 2017 8:30 am

NineBerry wrote:So, that means that any other country (e.g. North Korea) could blackmail any future Australian prime minister by threatening to grant him their citizenship.
Only if the give him or her citizenship before they are elected and (s)he doesn't renounce it before being elected.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Nov 11, 2017 10:48 am

Hardly a 'Citizenship crisis', as The Guardian put it, though.
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Post by pErvinalia » Sat Nov 11, 2017 12:39 pm

The Guardian is a far left rag. Further left than Pravda.
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Left I grant you but not always far left.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Nov 11, 2017 1:44 pm

No, your wrong Rum, The Guardian is 'Far Left' because it has some feminists contributors to it's comment and opinion pages.
pErvinalia wrote:The Guardian is a far left rag. Further left than Pravda.
The Guardian makes The Morning Star look like The Daily Mail.

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