a strict and narrow view

Comrades,

So, the High Court, unsurprisingly for mine, has taken a strict and narrow view of s.44 of the Constitution, and punted five of the Citizenship Seven.
It says what it means:
s44 (i.) "Is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power."
You simply cannot be a "subject or a citizen … of a foreign power" and sit in the Australian Parliament.
The Court agreed that the framers of Constitution back in the 1890's were playing the race card, yet again, and were determined to keep bloody foreigners out of the Corridors of Power.
Nothing's changed.
That's it - by unanimous decision of the full bench.
To put it in simple and easily understood terms it is the Court saying "Righto then, off the fuck you go."
Never mind this nonsense about how can you know if you a dual citizen if you don't know.
It's incumbent on anyone standing as a candidate to find out.
Senators Canavan and Xenophon got off on technicalities - Xenophon has already decided to piss off back to South Australia where he belongs - the wowser state can gladly have Nick the Greek back, he can even be Premier if he likes and ban the pokies and close all the pubs for all I care.
Canavan survived only because the court agreed with the submission of the amicus curiae that under "the best reading of Italian law", Canavan is not and was not Italian.
Calls for a referendum to amend s.44 are a waste of time and money - there are two chances of a poll of that sort succeeding - none and Buckley's.
The people of Australia - immigrants included - are inherently racist, and just won't have it.
Yr either Strayan, or yr not.
Never mind that the country will be running without a Deputy Prime Minister in the last week of Parliamentary sittings, while B.Joyce in on the hustings in New England.
What does a deputy Prime Minister do anyway when the Prime Minister is in the country?
Absolutely nothing.
And Trundle must be delighted to take on the responsibilities of being Agriculture Minister, he'll be able to devote a lot of time and energy to the portfolio while being a Prime Minister who is flat out like a lizard drinking extinguishing spot fires everywhere.
Labor - with the Liberal/Country Party coalition now having no guaranteed majority on the floor - have sensibly decided not to move a no confidence motion, because there is little or no point.
Barnaby will breeze back into the House of Reps in the by-election, Windsor or no Windsor.
The sensible move now is to audit every last politician to find out if they have any known or unknown allegiances to any foreign powers, and if they don't pass the test, they're out.
Simple.
End of story.
It's the law.