A stomach turning sight as stegosaurus looms out of Labor's vast cesspool of corruption.
The ALP created this whole citizen crisis, working behind the scenes to get their ship in order before setting up the initial outrage. It is an attempt to push over the Coalition and put Labor nodding dolls in power.
Problem is Juliar, us the public remember that what ever you say is more likely to be a lie than true. We also remember that you only have interest in your Union movement and it’s political arm the ALP. You may well have once been PM but you are what you always been.
There will be NO carbon tax under a "govt" I lead.
Now when will someone throw a sandwich at Bull S. ?Gillard says citizenship questions about Labor MPs are a ‘waste of time’AAP 5:36PM November 3, 2017
Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard going topsy turvey.
Former prime minister Julia Gillard says Labor has been doing thorough background checks of candidates for over two decades.Welsh-born Ms Gillard issued a brief statement on Friday accusing some reporters of “wasting their time” asking her about her UK citizenship, amid a debate over the eligibility of current MPs.
“I renounced my British citizenship in order to stand for election to the Senate in 1996,” she said.
“I was unsuccessful in that election. I was then elected to the seat of Lalor in 1998.
“What my personal experience shows is that more than two decades ago the Australian Labor Party was giving accurate advice to candidates on issues regarding eligibility to stand for federal parliament.”
It comes after the Perth lawyer who triggered the dual citizenship crisis by exposing then Greens senator Scott Ludlam’s New Zealand citizenship revealed Ms Gillard and Tony Abbott were actually the original targets of his investigation
John Cameron, who has a keen interest in constitutional law, said he began digging in 2011 but wasn’t able to gain traction until several years later. He started with then Prime Minister Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott.
“When I started I was after Gillard and Abbott but I wasn’t having much joy getting the evidence; or I wasn’t getting much joy in the high court accepting the evidence that I had from the British border authority,” he said. Instead Mr Cameron turned to his home country of New Zealand for information and the “low lying fruit” that was Senator Ludlam.
“So it was easier to go after Scott Ludlam as one of the low lying fruit because it was accessible through New Zealand,” he said.
Labor has backflipped on the citizenship issue this afternoon, throwing its support behind forcing all MPs to “disclose” to the parliament that they are not dual citizens after previously opposing a parliamentary audit.
Earlier, Malcolm Turnbull launched a passionate defence of cabinet minister Josh Frydenberg, calling it “absurd” to claim he inherited Hungarian citizenship from his mother who was stateless when she fled the country “which would have pushed them into the gas chambers.”
The prime minister accused those pushing for a citizenship audit of MPs as engaging in “witch hunts”, also taking aim at critics of the energy minister who have questioned his citizenship.
“Has this witch-hunt become so absurd that people are seriously claiming that Josh Frydenberg is the citizen of a country which has stripped his mother and her family of their citizenship and would have pushed them into the gas chambers had it not been that the war was ended before they had time to do so?” Mr Turnbull asked reporters in Perth on Friday.
He said politicians should not be tried by “innuendo and smear”, but rather any parliamentarian was able to stand up, offer evidence and move to refer one of their colleagues to the High Court, the only body with the power to disqualify MPs.
Two of Mr Frydenberg’s ministerial colleagues Barnaby Joyce and Fiona Nash were disqualified from parliament by the High Court over their dual citizenship-by-descent last Friday.
The Australian reported on Friday that Hungary has rules that can confer citizenship by descent.
Attorney-General George Brandis said rather than an audit, he expected a parliamentary committee would come up with proposals to either change section 44 of the constitution through a referendum or find a legislative means of sorting out the problem.
He said the Labor and Liberal parties had exhaustive processes for candidates to declare and prove their eligibility.
Conservative Liberal MP Kevin Andrews is among those pushing for an audit, insisting it was time to lance the “festering sore”.
“This has now become a festering sore for the government. We can’t talk about anything else. We need to get this resolved,” Mr Andrews told ABC TV.
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield revealed on Thursday now-resigned Senate President Stephen Parry had confessed to him in August about possibly being a dual UK-Australian citizen, but did not take action until this week. Mr Turnbull said he was not aware of the conversation, but it had been Mr Parry’s responsibility to comply with the constitution.
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