13 February 2020
Activist Judges Misrepresent Mabo To Create Privileged Class
The High Court’s decision on Tuesday to exempt an entire group of people based on their racial identity from the operation of national migration laws is the most radical instance of judicial activism in Australian judicial history. The High Court’s decision concerned two individuals who were not born in Australia and were not Australian citizens but who claim biological descent
11 November 2017
Fellow Citizens
The High Court’s decision last month to disqualify five federal parliamentarians for being dual citizens represents the worst excesses of judicial activism in Australia. In deciding that deputy PM Barnaby Joyce and Senators Fiona Nash, Malcolm Roberts, Scott Ludlam, and Larissa Waters were ineligible for parliament for being citizens of a foreign power, the High Court has not only confirmed
10 November 2017
Some Are More Innocent Than Others
A few days ago, Attorney-General George Brandis got a bit confused. He said that the debate about the citizenship status of politicians was becoming a “witch hunt” and “this is not Salem in the 1690s, where we go around whispering allegations about other people on the basis of no facts whatsoever”. But in Salem in the 1690s, there were no witches. In
