That is a very good question.

Pushing all the buttons David:
"the well endowed American-style political activist organisation GetUp!"

GetUp! is funded by its members, of whom there are over 300,000. Many small donations, as distinct from the political mainstream, prostituting itself to the big end of town. It's called grass-roots democracy David.

Scary, I know, for a monarchist, but there's really no need for the Stalinist bogey-man to be invoked.

Why wait? Because in order to have a plaintiff with an actionable claim then that person needed to be aggrieved by the close of the rolls. This means waiting until this election. GetUp simply need to find two people aggrieved and willing to have GetUp assist with their claim. There is nothing in realm of a stunt as regards to this. It was, if anything, out of procedural necessity.

After having read the HCA transcript - and even without having read it - it is reasonably clear that closing the rolls only 1 day after the issuing of the writs is hardly of much anti-fraud effect. GetUp, given they've won the case, must have proven to the HCA's satisfaction that the early close the rolls has no (or little) "prophylactic" benefit against fraud on the rolls because it's really ID checks that does that. Or even if it did, that it didn't outweigh the requirement of the Constitution that the Parliament be "chosen by the people".

I quite enjoy receiving David's emails on the monarchy but on this issue I think he's well off the mark.

Well said Geoff.

Of course it is alright for the Oz Christian lobby to put "moral" pressure on politicians and to tell porkies, half-truths and to engage in the politics of fear and mis-representation.

I wonder which law school this chap used to teach at?

It used to be once upon a time that lawyers were supposed to be able to think clearly and really examine the FACTUAL evidence--and not re-lie on either hearsay or their own delusions. I have yet to read anything by this chap that has any evidence of clear thinking, or respect for facts.

Mister Magoo has spoken therefore it must be troo

I joined GetUp! in its very early days. Their initial campaigns were apolitical.

It didn't take them long to reveal their true socialist bias.

I left them.

What is so wrong with allowing a seven day period? Why is this man so upset?

Is he suggesting the High Court is a stacked panel of socialists?

What a waste of space this is.

On yer bike Mr Flint.