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
DisqualificationAny 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.
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:-
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.
