http://www.smh.com.au/news/9812/02/text/pageone8.html The Sydney Morning Herald 2 Dec 1998 Hill could lose seat in court challenge - experts Date: 02/12/98 By GREG ROBERTS One Nation's sole Federal MP, Queensland senator-elect Mrs Heather Hill, is likely to be forced out of Parliament by a High Court challenge launched yesterday, even though she is understood to have quietly renounced her British citizenship, constitutional experts believe. They also say the challenge may force both Houses of Parliament to consider passing resolutions clarifying the status of MPs with dual citizenship. A petition by a Chinese-born Brisbane businessman, Mr Henry Sue, lodged in the High Court in Sydney, seeks Mrs Hill's disqualification under section 44 of the Constitution, which says citizens of a foreign power are "incapable of being chosen or of sitting" in Parliament. The Jewish community signalled it would throw its financial weight behind the challenge, but One Nation's Mr David Oldfield reacted angrily, saying Australia would be "better off" without the Asian-Australians who launched it. A similar challenge was lodged in Brisbane by a former One Nation candidate, Mr Terry Sharples, but Mr Sharples admitted he did not have the funds to finance it. ************************************************************************* This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List As vilified, slandered and attacked by One Nation mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
