Th’ Aussie Way

Finally today the High Court had its say on our 

dual citizen Parliamentarians - with exceptions 

for Nick Xenophon and Matthew Canavan, the 

rest are gone, their election ruled invalid; thus 

we say ta-ta to now ex-Deputy Prime Minister 

Barnaby Joyce, & Fiona Nash, Larissa Waters, 

Malcolm Roberts plus Scott Ludlam. And, tho 

their total Parliamentary service came to Forty 

years, we’re not seeing any ritual harakiri yet - 

maybe that should be left to the ‘bureaucrats’ 

who were apparently unaware that in 1897 th’ 

original Section 44 was debated & agreed - & 

yet changed in 1898 for no apparent reason - 

and all this before Federation on 1 Jan 1901 

So for 116 years we’ve been stumbling along 

in a misconceived belief we were governed in 

a fair and reasonable manner by people we’d 

elected because they were ‘the right stuff’ - & 

making a fuss wasn’t th’ Aussie way - maybe 

we’ll have to revisit & revise that toute suite 

© 27 October 2017, I. D, Carswell

Nick Xenophon and Matthew Canavan's cases were spared the Court's ruling. Nick Xenophon already 
indicated he's resigning to seek election in the South Australian State elections...