Just on Barnaby;

In my view these senators should be excluded. The law is clear, and if you can't be trusted to get something so simple correct, surely you have failed the competency test for being a senator.
Posted by GrahamY, Thursday, 20 July 2017 8:51:41 PM

I think that this is due to an overdeveloped sense of entitlement, and the belief that their cause is so just that anyone that disagrees with them is heartless or bigoted, that any law that obstructs them must be wrong and removed, and the irony that they were happy to have these same laws applied to others eludes them.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Friday, 21 July 2017 7:39:05 AM

The high court in the past has made allowances for someone that has made a genuine effort to renounce citizenship but has failed. Neither of these 2 idiots made any effort whatsoever, and ignorance has never been accepted as a valid excuse.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Saturday, 22 July 2017 11:45:44 AM

Steele, reading what you have posted as to what other have said, I can only assume the conservative duo of Graham and Shadow will be along shortly to join the chorus singing the latest smash hit,'Goodbye Barney'!

"You (Paul 1405) always got the good oil on OLO and well in advance. You should be thankful.

What from your incoherent babble leoj, I don't think so. Will you be representing the extreme right of the One Nation Party at the next election? Your mob seem to have enough of their own problems, no need to focus on the Greens.

Oh for Gawd sake Paul1405 take a Bex and have a nice lie down.

What if the EU Commission decided that anyone with an EU citizen
parent or grandparent was an EU citizen our parliament would close
and could not reassemble because the constitution could not be amended !

Call me stupid or something but don't we as a nation have more to worry about than this nonsense! I understand it's a clear breach of the constitution, but surely don't we need to look into the real intent of that sitting member to determine whether or not there's some sort of constitutional mischief involved? Whether it's the Greens, Labour or the LNP, if at the time that particular member or senator, honestly believed they were legitimate Aussie citizens, surely that's sufficient? Running to the High Court every time we have such a scandal, is in my view, a waste of time.

The thing that I find the most amusing about this whole saga is that conservatives, who almost unwaveringly prefer a strictly formalist approach from the judiciary, are now hoping and praying for one heck of a lot of judicial activism from the High Court.

Priceless!

Why hasn't Barnaby Joyce gone by now? The arch hypocrite, Turnbull, couldn't contain his crowing about the dumb Greens, but he is quiet about the very dumb Joyce and his own senator, whose life is organised by his mummy.

There is no democracy in Australia. There are different rules for different people, and Prime Ministers are elected (actually chosen by the party, not the people) dictators, apparently answerable to the unelected, activist High Court, not the people of Australia.

What is the point of having a Constitution if it is not abided by?