ttbn, you seem to have a rather archaic notion of loyalty What exactly do you think it means?

PhilipS,

"While they can be commanded from another country they do not have the ability to be 100% Australian citizens"

Not in all cases, if in any.
I hold dual citizenship, and the country of that other citizenship stipulates that when in my birth country, Australia, that they claim no jurisdiction nor can I appeal to them for any assistance within said birth country.

I'm really disappointed with Labor on this issue. A few weeks ago they did a lot of bragging about how their party thoroughly checks the citizenship of all their candidates. But now they're opposing an audit of the citizenship of all MPs, even though that has the potential to bring down the government!

WTF have they got to hide?

If the underlying issue is divided loyalty, it may be more useful to check where financial interests lie. Someone with substantial overseas holdings can probably get residency easily regardless, and someone with significant transfers through tax havens has no significant loyalty to anything at all.

Rusty.

Spray for the day;

I note some of our more conservative posters have gone very quite on this since the heady days, not long ago, when it only involved a couple of "Greenies". At that time they were baying for blood, demanding the odious pair be sacrificed at the 'Alter of the Constitution' in the name of decency. What a bunch of hypocrites!

When it comes to hypocrisy leoj is a past master. Started a thread called "The Remarkable Mr Ludlum". Some quotes from the "Remarkable Mr Leoj"

<<it is made plain in simple words in the Candidates Handbook and in application forms. It will be interesting who steps forward to shield and excuse, or even criticise the rules. Or to dump on the publicly spirited whistleblower, who should get an Australian Honour for acting to protect the Constitution and democracy.>>
Posted by leoj, Sunday, 16 July 2017 5:58:08 PM

<<I believe that the credibility of the federal Parliament will again suffer. Even more so if Ludlum isn't immediately refunded his contributions to Parliamentary superannuation and instead is allowed to retain and claim those 'Golden Handshake' benefits.>>
Posted by leoj, Monday, 17 July 2017 11:59:14 AM

<<Ludlum had a jolly good ride>> Posted by leoj, Monday, 17 July 2017 5:06:53 PM

Now, what do we now get from this forum hypocrite, He has done a 180 on the subject;

<< Why waste more of the Parliament's time? The Greens clowns just want to stir now that their ride on SSM is nigh over.>>

Posted by leoj, Thursday, 2 November 2017 10:12:41 AM

My first comment on the subject;

<<Politics is a rough and tumble affair, Scott has been shown no quarter by his political opponents, nor should he expect it. He will just have to cop it on the chin.>>
Posted by Paul1405, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 5:41:38 AM

cont

cont

The forever wrong Shadow Minister is another. a lot to say about the "Greenies", Has nothing to say about the Liberal fool Stephen Parry who was hiding his citizenship under a rock until things fot too hot! And Shadow are you still crowing that Barnyard Barney has nothing to worry about?

The there is the Remarkable Mr Turnball's

"Obviously Senator Ludlam's oversight is a pretty remarkable one when you think about it - he's been in the Senate for so long," Mr Turnbull said.

in the light of that does Turnball's want that goose Barnyard Barney back as his Deputy Dog?

Not all Conservatives have been so hypocritical on this. The only genuine exception has been ttbn, who has been most consistent with his opinions. I don't always agree with you forum buddy, but thumbs up on this one.