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Queensland election 2015: Ferny Grove could be headed to by-election While Queensland still waits on an answer about who will be leading its government for the next term, political eyes have turned to Ferny Grove, where voters could be headed back to the polls sooner than they thought. The Electoral Commission Queensland spent all Tuesday morning dealing with media enquiries after The Courier Mail reported the Palmer United candidate in the north-west seat was an alleged undischarged bankrupt. Under the Parliament of Queensland legislation, a person found to be an undischarged bankrupt is unable to stand for office. The LNP is expected to win 42 seats and Labor 44 including Ferny Grove. If the seat was to fall to the LNP, however, it would be in an improved bargaining position with cross-bench MPs and could even form a government.

interesting times folks..

the Media will be whipping themselves into a frenzied orgy baying for blood...

how's this for an outcome...

a minority Government in QLD with Pauline Hanson holding the Balance of power???

dear lord...  :o

;D

PUP don't screen their candidates too well evidently.

The Govt should sue PUP for the cost of the Byelection.

Will Labor have the testicular fortitude?  :D

Swagman wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 10:18am:

PUP don't screen their candidates too well evidently.

Nor do the Liberal Party.

Section 44 of the Australian Constitution is clear when it says:

44. Any person who -

(i.) Is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power: or ...

... shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives.


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Swagman wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 10:18am:

PUP don't screen their candidates too well evidently. The Govt should sue PUP for the cost of the Byelection. Will Labor have the testicular fortitude?  :D

Are you kidding? The Labor leader hasn't got the balls!!!

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 10:22am:

Section 44 of the Australian Constitution is clear when it says: 44. Any person who - (i.) Is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power

Interesting....... so all the Leftist politicians that sell their bums to the UN and the Climate Church should be turfed out huh?  :D

Don't all politicians swear allegiance, obedience, or adherence to Queen Bess?  :D

We are an anarchy and we didn't know it?  ;D

Swagman wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 12:58pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 4th, 2015 at 10:22am: Section 44 of the Australian Constitution is clear when it says: 44. Any person who - (i.) Is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power Don't all politicians swear allegiance, obedience, or adherence to Queen Bess?

Queen Elizabeth is the Queen of Australia.

"The Queen's relationship to Australia is unique. In all her duties, she speaks and acts as Queen of Australia, and not as Queen of the United Kingdom."

http://www.royal.gov.uk/monarchandcommonwealth/australia/australia.aspx

A byelection in Ferny Grove is unlikely. The ineligible candidate would be excluded from the count and the remaining preferences would be allocated as normal.

Legal precedent - Sykes v Cleary (paragraph 31):

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a primary vote for an unqualified candidate does not destroy the voter’s indication of his or her subsequent preferences… Although an indication of a voter’s preference for an unqualified candidate is a nullity and the indication of preference for that candidate cannot be treated as effective, the ballot paper is not informal. It was held (in re Wood) that “the vote is valid except to the extent that the want of qualification makes the particular indication of preference a nullity” and that there is no reason for disregarding the other indications of the voter’s preference