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LAW COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA: Warns against handing Home Affairs Minister power to render Australians stateless
Representatives from the Law Council warned the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, that the proposed changes may be inconsistent with our international obligations.
Under the proposed legislation as it is drafted, the Minister can strip anyone convicted of terrorism-related offences of their Australian citizenship regardless of the severity of the conviction. The proposed legislation stipulates the Minister need only be ‘satisfied’ that the person would have another citizenship – a much lower and vaguer threshold.
Current laws allow individuals to lose citizenship if they are convicted of a terrorism-related offence with a prison sentence of at least six years, and have citizenship of another country.
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Friday, 01 February 2019Ok, I have another question, does anyone actually listen when "stakeholders" warn?
I suspect that when these changes are floated and there is a "consultation" that the consultations are not being done in good faith. The impression that i have is that "consultations" are in fact not consultations but DOHA telling us what they are going to do and nothing that we say is going to change their mind about where the legislation is going.
It is all such a wicked waste of time and money.
Assuming that the Govt is serious about Prasad...why not just let him deal with his matter is Turkey, forget about any foreshadowed "extradition" to convict him of some traversal of the
Australian law...this is all about hairy chested responses to " we have to do something"...it is pathetic really.
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You can have all the power in the world but it must be exercised lawfully.
The failure to get Fiji to sign off on the Prasad case renders Mr Prasad stateless.
I wonder what constitutional head of power the Commonwealth is using?