One Nation (NSW Division) Media Release - 18/1/2007
HILALY - MAKE CITIZENSHIP REVOKABLE AND MAKE THAT RETROSPECTIVE
Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen once said there's nothing that can't be done just by passing a law. This is absolutely true, and we need a bill through Federal Parliament making revoking of citizenship possible, and it should be made retrospective.
There is a precedent, as when Howard was Treasurer under Fraser his bottom-of-the-harbour tax legislation was made retrospective.
One Nation can't think of a better way to rid our country of people we don't want.
There are hardened criminals, potential terrorists and other undesireables here who don't fear jail, who laugh at the courts, who intimidate witnesses and police and even threaten Crown Prosecuters and are on the first plane back to their country of origin if they are let out on bail. One imposition they do fear is losing the right to live here.
Citizenship is a contract between the new citizen and the state, it's like a licence to be an Australian, In taking citizenship you give certain undertakings. It can be renounced by the citizen at the drop of a hat, but in the case of Australia not by the country that has given it. Any contract that can only be revoked by one party but not the other upon a breach is a dud contract.
Come on, John Howard, you lost no time disendorsing Pauline Hanson in 1996 when she spoke her mind. Why are you protecting Hilaly?
Statement issued January 18th, 2007 on behalf of One Nation (NSW Division) by Bob Vinnicombe Publicity Officer
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