Dual Citizenship Crisis - s 44(i)

[Jezza]

Senator and Deputy Leader of the Greens, Scott Ludlam, has resigned from Parliament after breaching section 44(i) of the Constitution where he failed to renounce his dual citizenship, which disqualifies anyone serving in office who:

"Is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-14/s ... ip/8708606

Official statement from Ludlam:

https://twitter.com/SenatorLudlam/statu ... 9610405893

[Tannin]

What a terrible loss for Australian democracy. Ludlam has been an outstanding Senator, head and shoulders above most of his kind and his voice of sanity and reason will be sadly missed.

Examle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90K0p-1CCQk

Note that he arrived in Australia as a very young child and had no idea that he was technically also a New Zealand citizen until last week. Note also that he immediately notified the appropriate authorities. (Compare with that dishonest clown Abbott who is still refusing to own up or provide evidence of his citizenship.)

[Wokko]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RoOwSKI7M

[stui magpie]

We was born in NZ and it never occurred to him that might make him a NZ citizen?

Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

[think positive]

Probably not the only one who takes up Australian citizenship and just assumes it takes the place of the old one.

[Wokko]

People were onto him 2 years ago, surely he knew it himself.

https://np.reddit.com/r/australia/comme ... w_zealand/



https://www.change.org/p/scott-ludlam-s ... ally#share

[Jezza]

(Compare with that dishonest clown Abbott who is still refusing to own up or provide evidence of his citizenship.)

Yeah nah

[Member 7167]

Great loss. They should have found a way to renounce his NZ citizenship and sign a stat dec declaring that he will no longer use the words choice, ahh or bro.

[Tannin]

Yer right Jezza. This is why he has asked the Brits to place a blanket black ban on all Freedom of Information queries related to the matter. Abbott: dishonest, sneaky clown.

[Tannin]

He was three years old, Stui. How much do you remember from when you were three. And - unlike Abbott - he has been upfront and honest and outed himself.

[stui magpie]

He was three years old, Stui. How much do you remember from when you were three. And - unlike Abbott - he has been upfront and honest and outed himself.

I actually remember stuff but that's irrelevant. As an adult, you surely know where you were born even if you don't remember it. FFS, it would be on his Birth Certificate.

I don't get the need to bring Abbott into it, no one cares. Did Gillard renounce her UK citizenship? No one cares.

[David]

[pietillidie]

That's a crying shame if the guy was sane and decent. Silly error, but still a shame.

[sixpoints]

Any Acknowledgement of Allegiance, Obiedience or Adherence to a foreign power disqualifies you from Parliament.....but our Head of State is a foreigner!
How can this bloke lose his job, but the Queen of England doesn't?

Also to be consistent, our National Flag should immediately be changed! How can that flag represent us, when it acknowledges allegiance to a foreign power?

[HAL]

A lot of hard work.