Letter to the editor: A legal explainer for senators' foreign citizenship high court case

Mel Leigh Dee
Updated October 11 2017 - 1:11pm, first published October 6 2017 - 4:00pm
Legal take on senators’ citizenship stoush | Letter
Legal take on senators’ citizenship stoush | Letter

Next week a full court of the High Court sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns will hear argument over three days on whether the foreign citizenship provisions of s.44(i) of the constitution rendered invalid the elections of seven individuals—Matt Canavan, Scott Ludlam, Larissa Waters, Malcolm Roberts, Nick Xenophon and Fiona Nash (who were declared elected to the Senate) and Barnaby Joyce (who was declared elected to the house of representatives).

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Mel Leigh Dee

Mel Leigh Dee

Journalist

Mel is a journalist at the Guardian News and is based in Macksville.

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