Aussie wrote on Apr 4
th, 2019 at 12:59pm:
Karnal wrote on Apr 4
th, 2019 at 11:28am:
[quote author=Aussie link=1554279378/7#7 date=1554281798][quote author=Gnads link=1554279378/3#3 date=1554280350]Anning is not banned as yet
and I don't believe any petition should be used to make that sort of decision.
He cannot be 'banned' or removed except via an election, the one in May. That 'censure' thing was just political posturing.....appropriate I hasten to say....but otherwise of zero impact.
Quote:Actually, I think he can, Aussie. The senate isn't representative. It's a House of Lords, presided over by the parties, not the Queen. Senators serve at the whim of the parties (or independents) with the most votes.
Hence, the ALP was able to sack Sam Dastyari for not towing the party line.
They threw him out of the ALP. They did not throw him out of the Senate.
Quote:Fair enough too.
Your old party, the Palmer United Party, would have been perfectly within their rights to sack Jaqui Lambie when she quit the party. The reason they didn't, I believe, is Palmer didn't have the votes in his party, which by their own rules, required a vote by the majority of parliamentarians.
In PUP, Palmer was God, and did what he liked. There was no structure of any substance. It was all smoke and mirrors.
Quote:So yes, I believe One Nation could indeed sack Fraser Anning and appoint one of their own. I'm not sure why they haven't, but it probably has something to do with the rules of the current senate and members being sworn in for a particular term.
They have booted him out or caused his being no longer a Member of PHON. He then became a Member of KAP. They booted him out...of the Party...but he remains a Senator notwithstanding all of that.
Actually, Sam Dastyari quit.
Yes. I have conceded that error. But...my comments otherwise are accurate.
But I'm curious. How do parties replace senators when they quit or die, but not replace them when they leave the party they were elected to serve?
I.e, Fraser Anning?
He did not quit, or lose, his position as Senator after losing Party Membership.