A clear cut case of be careful what you wish for and some notable incompetence in some of the tendered advice? This was a trap set to snare a couple of green, Green Senators and caught a few equally green companion trap setters into a bargain for beggars!?

Now that this episode is more or less behind us, anyone not born here and wanting to stand for parliament is on notice! As are they with Parents or Grandparents born elsewhere!

Makes you wonder why they came here in the first place given the weather is always fine elsewhere?

And as for the weather in Dublin?

Ah to be sure, to be sure, it'd be a beautiful, fine, warm, sunny day, were it not for all that wind, rain, snow and ice!

As intended humour, more or less caps this schnozzle? It's over! Other more important, real issues beckon! Get over it!

If you can't stand the heat? Get out of the kitchen!

If you can't stand the cold? Get back in the kitchen!

Refocus and reboot!
Alan B.

“The applicants have come to assume a title more commonly associated with criminal gangs or wrongly accused terrorists”. Tough but true. Many Australians, particularly the Left and others who do not take Australia seriously – anything goes, now – and who do not respect Australian citizenship, are totally insensitive to the gravity of these clowns' transgressions. It is appalling that these people, and probably others like them yet to be revealed, got into Parliament while being so ignorant of the Australian Constitution. There are only two ways to look at them: they are stupid or they are dishonest. Those attributes might be seen jokingly (?) as a prime qualification for the job, what has happened is very, very serious. It could bring down the Government, and maybe it should. The Turnbull farce has gone on too long.

I disagree with Mr.Kampmark that Section 44 is “onerous”; it is a perfectly acceptable and desirable instrument to indicate that Australian-ism and the rights and privileges of citizenship are respected. To date, it just hasn't been enforced. On top of it, we really need to see dual-citizenship abolished. If your country of birth wasn't good enough for you, hanging onto the past is just silly sentimentalism.

It was good to see the High Court apply black letter law to this case. There has been far too much interference with Australian law, values and dignity coming from that quarter in the past. There is nothing “archaic” about Section 44; to suggest there is is anti-Australian, to say the least. Somebody called 'Adrienne Stone' is wrong in her reference to multiculturalism, which itself needs to be abolished if this country is ever again to be something to be proud of. There is nothing “terrific” (which used to mean bad, until the language frauds got to it) about representatives who are not fully committed to Australia. And dual-citizens are not fully committed, no matter what they and the Left thought police rave on about. Thankfully, our Constitution is protected from the thugs by a majority of genuine Australians.

That is the law and so be it.

It serves as a needed, timely reminder to politicians and the political parties that no-one is above the law.

How sweet. Multiculturalism fails at the door of the rulers.

I like this author. Very bright.

What is unforgivably wrong about in all this saga is that the role of the senate, inter alia,is to review bills coming out of the house of represenatives to ensure they are consistent with the requirements of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution, but this was obviously done to a very, very poor standard.

This is because if these senators who have resigned, knew the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution as well as they should have, they would have known THEY DID NOT HAVE TO RESIGN if they came from another commonwealth country such as Britian, New zealand, Canada and Ireland.

Why, because they are all COMMONWEALTH countries and the Constitution very speficially states this.

God help us if we have more of these pathetic barxyzs for Senators.

No wonder all past governments since the 1970's will die in battle before they bring in compulsory training in the Australian constitution in ALL schools in Australia.

ttbn,

" On top of it, we really need to see dual-citizenship abolished"

How do we do that when such dual citizenship is often hereditary?
Are we to change the laws of other countries?

In my own case, I hold Irish citizenship by right of descent, not because I applied for it or it was granted to me and it is most convenient when I'm in Europe as I don't need visas.