Put aside the rubber band and icy pole stick jokes. Australia is going into space. Soon. well, soon-ish. Weather permitting.
In typical Australian fashion, the government has decided a space agency sounds like it might be a good idea and have immediately announced a committee to see if it really is a good idea and after that committee reports, the government will review it immediately or in the fullness of time, whichever comes first and move straight to establishing a working party to announce the formation of a commission to get cracking on creating a new committee to conduct a feasibility study. When that’s done, the sky’s the limit or it might be if a bunch of government consultants decide it is.
“This is really a way to bring the whole issue to a head,” Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos says in a statement announcing the review.
At this pace we should have a space agency around the time Burkina Faso sends its first manned mission to Pluto.
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If it is automatically assumed you have allegiance to another country even if you unknowingly have dual citizenship even with a fellow commonwealth country and cannot stand in Parliament then if you are a royalist or anything other than a supporter of an Australian republic you should not be able to stand for parliament.
You didn’t think that through did you.
Think..? You’re too kind Mack. The lad does his best work with the cut and paste. Not a sensible or coherent thought in its head. Hence the dismayed disposition.
I presume that both Ludlam and Waters can now renounce their troublesome nationalities and run again at the next election? Or does the tribunal give them and extended holiday?
I’d imagine that there might be a few other MPs and senators checking their bona fides now as well. Watch this space?
As I said to Bella last night TV it was obvious what would be happening. No conspiracy just stupidity from all sides.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/mps-rush-to-confirm-trueblue-credentials-after-greens-fiasco/news-story/7cbc31082031575758ac61c97a8a617b
It just seens bizarre that a party does not thoroughly vet its prospective candidate’ s eligibility. One would think that’s Step 1 on the journey.
I would think that checking their criminal history would come first!
On bona fides, i’m wondering if holding dual citizenship prevents you, legally, from holding the position of state premier; in which case it may be a good idea to do an enquiry into the affairs of a certain Joh Bjelke and see whether we can get some peanuts back from his estate.
Not in Queensland.
That’s for you to know and me to find out Milton, hurumph. In Qld you know, hurumph, we are doingthings that the Southern States could only marvel at, you know, what? I don’t know about that.
Kiwi or Danish? Or all?
Apparently not at State level. Mike Rann in SA was apparently a Kiwi the whole time.