"Katy Gallagher found ineligible to serve in Parliament after High Court citizenship ruling

By Elizabeth Byrne and Matthew Doran
Updated 15 minutes ago [11:40 AM, 9/5/18]

Gallagher's fate could trigger [a] string of by-elections
RELATED STORY: Gallagher claims she did all she could to dump British citizenship
Labor senator Katy Gallagher has lost her seat after the High Court ruled she did not renounce her British citizenship in time for the 2016 election..."

Whither Bill Shorten's claim that Labor had done the paperwork?

Australia shoulds not have any such thing as dual citizens. If you don't want to be aussie don't come here.

These people are dishonest or stupid, possibly both. Now we have four costly by-elections coming up. ALL Australian governments, past and present, have been grossly negligent for not scrutinising the rubbishy, dishonest or stupid nominees for elegibility for public office. The fact that the dual citizen crooks don't have to repay the money they gave illegaly ripped off us is a disgrace. There is no doubt that the Australian political class is our greatest handicap.

Runner is right. We should not allow dual citizenship. Roughly the same number of countries disallow this nonsense as those who do. We should be moving to the 'do nots' group, particularly as we are taking in a lot of their riffraff.

Yes, most definitely a condition of being granted Oz citizenship should be supplying proof of rescinding citizenship in any other country.

Another qualification should be the ability to read & fluently speak & understand English.

Speaking English fluently should also be a condition for continued residency after a period of 5 years. No English in that time should cancel any residency, leading to deportation.

As a dual citizen, I must disagree; I am a fifth generation Australian but I have dual citizenship by right of descent, the Australian Government has nothing to do with it and can do nothing about it, short of convincing the other Government involved to change its Constitution to suit an Australian whim.

What amazes me (well, not actually in most cases) is that politicians who generally have good (?) legal advice can be so stupid as to not find out, well in advance of nomination, what their status is.

If a Centrelink recipient is required to pay back money that they did not receive legally then I fail to see why politicians should be excepted.

I think the court has really overstepped the mark on this one. The constitution did not include a bureaucratic restriction on timing, but the judges imposed one anyway - even though such an imposition is neither in the interest of justice nor what the writers of the constitution intended.

Could the government overturn this decision by legislation? Or would it require a referendum?

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runner, WTF makes you think dual citizens don't want to be Aussie? Those who don't want to become Aussie would not have become citizens!