Sunday, October 4, 2020

Morrison's New Zealand citizenship

 The Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison is a dual citizen and in parliament illegally.


S44 of the Australian constitution says

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - SECT 44 Disqualification

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - SECT 44

Disqualification

                   Any person who:

                      (i)  is under any acknowledgment 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 a citizen of a foreign power; or 

 

 

Mr Morrison's Mother Marion Elsie (nee) Smith was born in Surrey Hills NSW on 14/1/1943 to a New Zealand father  Lesley John Smith.  He was born at Ashburton Canterbury NZ on 10/8/1917.


In 1948 the British Nationality and NZ Citizenship Act came into being and section 16 of that act says:-  

 


 Start off with 16 1(a) - that declares Lesley John Smith to be  New Zealand citizen.

 

16 2 says if a person was a British subject prior to the law being enacted and their father qualifies as a New Zealander under 1 (a) or (b), they become a New Zealand citizen.

16 5 says a male person who becomes a New Zealand citizen by virtue of  16.2 shall become a New Zealand citizen by descent.


Marion Elsie Smith became a New Zealand citizen in her own right thanks to 16.2 of the act and wasn't a citizen by descent because she was female and not male as specified in 16.5.

Now to play some clicky games on the interweb.

Check if you are a citizen click here 

 


 Click no because you werent born in NZ, click no for Western Samoa, next page asks if a parent was a citizen


Click yes because Marion Elsie Smith was a New Zealand citizen

The next question is what sort of citizenship did your parent have?  By birth or grant.



You are a New Zealand citizen by descent

You can register your citizenship and order a passport at the same time.

 

Mr Morrison says he hasn't registered his citizenship but that is only official paperwork.  He is a New Zealand citizen.  He needs to register to get a passport.
 
 

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The reason I wrote this was because of Margaret Simons writing a story in the Guardian.  That was back in October 2019.


I wrote a petition to parliament EN1145. It was closed for signatures on Christmas Day 2019.  It says:-

Mr Morrison's mother Marion was born in Australia to a New Zealand citizen. The British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act section 16 says children born of fathers born in New Zealand are citizens of that country. The law specifies male children are citizens by descent, female children were not mentioned meaning they are citizens other than by descent and able to pass New Zealand citizenship to their children. This Makes Mr Morrison a New Zealand citizen by descent. The house can't determine if Mr Morrison has or hasn't breached the constitution, that is up to the High Court. Even the Commonwealth Solicitor has been proven wrong about S44 on so many occasions.

We therefore ask the House to refer Mr Morrison to the High Court to determine if he is a New Zealand citizen and in breach of our constitution.
 
 
Mr Porter the Attorney General replied  on 3/3/20 saying basically that we the voter cant lodge petitions asking about S44 compliance and that the referral to the Court of Disputed Returns must come from the Privileges & Members Interests Committee. Mr Gorman, the Deputy Chair of that committee said in an email to me that the committee does not have the legislation to refer anyone to any court.
 
A further letter from the Attorney Generals Department, not Christian Porter, said:- 
 

 The important bit seems to say that parliament determines the legal status of MPs, not the High Court.

In relation to your comment regarding the role of electors bringing a challenge to the 

 eligibility of parliamentarians, the High Court has held that in a proceeding for a penalty

under the Common Informers (Parliamentary Disqualifications) Act 1975 it is not able to  

determine whether someone is incapable of sitting as a member of the House of  

Representatives or senator due to s 44 of the Constitution (Alley v Gillespie (2018) 

 264 CLR 328). Any question of s 44 incapability is to be determined by the House of  

Representatives or Senate itself under s 47 of the Constitution, unless either house resolves  

to refer the matter to the Court of Disputed Returns under the 

 Commonwealth Electoral  Act 1918.

 

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My local MP is Andrew Wallace, an LNP member of parliament. He used to be a 

barrister before entering  parliament and now seems to be a barista. I have written to my 

local MP on several occasions asking him to follow House rules and put Mr Morrison

into the High Court to determine his eligibility to sit in parliament. He blocks me on all 

 social media and refuses to answer my emails. I have written to him, Mr Smith the Speaker

and the Queensland Bar Association  to see if his determination to protect Mr Morrison

from the law is against the Bar Association rules and the Rules of the House of Parliament.

 

 

 

 



Tuesday, February 25, 2020

EN1331 stopsubsidies for the coal industry


EN1331 signatures close 25/3/20. You can sign here - https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1331




  • Reason: The country is suffering great angst about coal. Is it good, is it bad, should we mine it or should we leave it in the ground. One of the biggest problems facing this country is the amount of government money, aka tax dollars, flowing to the coal mining companies in the forms of subsidies, interest free loans, grants etc. Subsidies to the coal industry are made by the federal government and state governments but with the likes of COAG a coordinated approach could be made to free the coal industry to allow it to operate with no governmental financial constraints. Some authorities put the amount of money given to the coal industries as being in the vicinity of twenty nine billion dollars. Stopping those subsidies to the coal industry would allow the industry to operate in a free market which I believe is one of the basic ideological tenets of our government. The money saved would be ideal for expenditure in our regions or in financing the ABC properly.
  • Request: We therefore ask the House to coordinate with the states stopping all subsidies, loans and grants to coal companies to allow them to operate in a free market.















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EN1348 drug & alcohol testing for MPs

EN1348  signatures until 25 March 2020 and you can sign here :- https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1348




  • Reason: Social Services Minister Anne Ruston is considering bringing in drug testing for Newstart recipients. Newstart recipients get tax payer dollar while they look for work. Members of parliament get tax payer dollar working for the community. There should be no real difference between what happens to Newstart recipients and to our elected representatives. Most major corporations throughout the world have some form of drug testing and alcohol testing for their highly paid staff. Generally for the larger companies compulsory testing starts with a salary of $80,000 per annum. Our members of parliament get paid from about $200,000 per annum.and up.
  • Request: We therefore ask the House to institute drug and alcohol testing for members of parliament. Daily while in Canberra and randomly when not in Canberra. 

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

EN1133 ban internal combustion engines

  • Reason: The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that Britain will ban all new internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035. Britain allows the sale of cheap electric vehicles made in Europe, China, India, the USA, we dont. Our electric vehicles seem to be limited to the elitist versions, the most expensive versions so that those in control of the country can keep the quiet Australians from having a quiet car that doesn't use petrol. This may be to the major political parties getting major donations form the fossil fuel industries. If we ban the internal combustion engine we no longer have manufacturing industries that would be affected. the service industries could easily switch to electric vehicles.
  • Request: We therefore ask the House to allow the sale of cheap electric vehicle from all corners of the world and to ban the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2025.
Your petition was considered by the Standing Committee on Petitions at a recent meeting, and was found to meet the petition requirements. It is now available for signature online.
Signatures open: 12/02/2020
Signatures close: 11/03/2020


Post your signatures are here:-



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Dummy Spitting

Way back when at the now defunct Arafura Bowls club in Darwin the New Years Eve party would have a dummy spitting competition for all of the members who spat the dummy and left the club.

We on the committee would line up with a dummy for each member to see how far the dummy could actually be spat.  All good fun and a middle finger for the dummy spitters.

Parliament in Australia has done a massive dummy spit thanks to Llew O'Brien.

It required a petition so here it is.  The Petition hasn't been approved by the petitions committee yet, I am unsure if Llew quit the job as chair of the committee before he became deputy Speaker in the House.

  • Reason: This week saw a ridiculous situation where a Queenslander, elected to parliament as a member of the LNP in Queensland spat the dummy and quit sitting with the Nationals in their party room. It makes a sham of what we do in Queensland. We either vote for the LNP or not. It shouldn't then be up to the whim of the MP to decide if they will be a National or a Liberal in parliament. Our dummy spitter decided he wouldn't be either National or Liberal, surely he must go to the Liberals if he was elected as an LNP MP or renounce his membership of the LNP and be just an independent? Relying on the whim of an individual to decide who they will represent in Parliament rather than on the vote of the electorate is not democracy. MPs are elected as LNP members and must represent the LNP in parliament.
  • Request: We therefore ask the House to order the members of the LNP to be listed as a separate party within Parliament. 



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Sunday, January 5, 2020

Communication with MPs EN1252

Some of our MPs don't like talking with their constituents and this goes all the way to replying to emails and social media questions and answers.


 So a petition has been put to parliament, up to Llew O'Brien to approve it for signatures, whenever they bother going back to work.


Terms:
  • Reason: Some members of parliament block voters on social media. Some mark emails as spam. Some just don't bother answering emails. Parliament House information sheet 15 says "communication skills are important in all aspects of a Member’s work, but are particularly so in working with constituents" My local MP Andrew Wallace said of Twitter " I find twitter to be an electronic version of the “Canberra bubble” and for the life of me do not understand why people use it." Another Sunshine Coast MP Ted O'Brien hasn't used Twitter since March 2016 and even the Chair of the Petitions Committee hasn't used Twitter since September 2019. A lot of the Petitions Committee aren't even members on Twitter. Nearly 5 million Australians use Twitter for regular communication and quite often political discourse. Hiding from voters in the Canberra BublĂ© is not the way democracy is supposed to work. You MPs are there for we the voter not you donors.
  • Request: We therefore ask the House to instruct Members to begin communicating with voters by answering emails, stop blocking social media and email accounts, answering Twitter and Facebook questions posted by voters. 

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EN1255 where are they

Our politicians go missing regularly.  And we don't know where they are.


So petition EN1255 has been lodged, hopefully they will accept the petition and start listing where the work shy bludgers are at any given moment.


Terms:
  • Reason: A national fire emergency has been happening since at least August 2019 and is continuing into January 2020. Parliament has sat for just 20 days in that time. The emergency has been labelled the Hawaiian Holiday fires because our Prime Minster took off for a holiday and apparently no one knew where he was. My own local MP Andrew Wallace has done the same, emails to his office are answered with a message saying he is missing from 20/12/19 until 13/1/20. Mr Dutton the minister responsible for Home Affairs which is responsible for Emergency Management seems to have gone missing and we don't know where he are. We voters need to know where our Members of Parliament are so we can find them to ask for help if needed or to ask for information if wanted.
  • Request: We therefore ask the House to arrange for a web page to be created and updated regularly showing where our elected representatives are. This must show their current location live and any future projected locations. 


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