Opinion

What the indigenous ancestry case means for citizenship

By Peter Kurti
Updated February 24 2020 - 12:42pm, first published February 23 2020 - 7:00pm
MASSIVE: The High Court decision created a new category of "non-citizen non-alien" who enjoys special protections.
MASSIVE: The High Court decision created a new category of "non-citizen non-alien" who enjoys special protections.

Two men born overseas, who were never Australian citizens and had no intention of ever becoming so - and who had committed violent crimes - went to the High Court claiming the government had no authority to expel them under the Migration Act 1958 because neither of them were aliens within the meaning of Section 51 (xix) of the Constitution.

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