This is such an excellent and timely piece from @sangpillai on what Australian citizenship means post 9/11: “Post-9/11 Australia has pushed a tradition of exclusion to constitutional extremes”

#constitutionallaw #auslaw
“Ultimately, unable to reach agreement on these things, they simply left citizenship out. The Constitution says nothing direct about what it means to be Australian, when a person is entitled to Australia’s protection, or who can claim to ‘belong’ to Australia.”
“While the framers could not agree on who belonged in the Australian constitutional community, they did express a clear and united desire to be able to comprehensively exclude people who were not of ‘British race’.”
“It is unsurprising, then, that the Constitution has been described as more concerned with exclusion than with inclusion. The White Australia Policy is no more, but the aliens and immigration powers provide an ongoing foundation for various exclusionary choices…”
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10 Nov
Excellent explainer and critique of Victoria’s new Pandemic Bill from Kristen Rundle, @WPartlett (@MelbLawSchool) & @mariaosulliv (@MonashLawSchool) earlier this evening.

Main concerns of speakers 🧵:
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- Sidelining of Parliament: new model has incredibly limited role for Parliament (Premier declares pandemic and Parliament not needed to renew). Disallowance mechanisms require both houses of Parliament, rendering them of limited practical use.
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- May make sense during the acute phase of a crisis, but pandemics last years. Need to be thinking of ways to involve P'ment in supervising gov's pandemic response as it morphs into a protracted political and societal problem, consistent with our tradition of responsible gov.
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