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highlyeccentricI was just thinking yesterday that Auspol had been suspiciously normal, compared to the UK and the US, for at least a week.
NEVER FEAR. Today I woke up to news of:
A: SECRET KIWI IN THE SENATE
and
B: Turnbull's plans to override the laws of mathematics.
I'm not sure what's best about item A: that Scott Ludlam has been an illegitimate senator all this time, or that he DIDN'T REALISE HE WAS A KIWI. He 'didn't realise citizenship followed you like that'. You're a SENATOR, sir.* How many immigration debates have you slept through?
Item B is pure gold and the best motivation I have ever heard for subscribing to a VPN service. Declare your allegiance to the laws of mathematics!
* Wait, no you're not. You've never actually been a Senator. You've just been... in the Senate. A secret Kiwi in the senate.
NEVER FEAR. Today I woke up to news of:
A: SECRET KIWI IN THE SENATE
and
B: Turnbull's plans to override the laws of mathematics.
I'm not sure what's best about item A: that Scott Ludlam has been an illegitimate senator all this time, or that he DIDN'T REALISE HE WAS A KIWI. He 'didn't realise citizenship followed you like that'. You're a SENATOR, sir.* How many immigration debates have you slept through?
Item B is pure gold and the best motivation I have ever heard for subscribing to a VPN service. Declare your allegiance to the laws of mathematics!
* Wait, no you're not. You've never actually been a Senator. You've just been... in the Senate. A secret Kiwi in the senate.
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Date: 2017-07-14 02:53 pm (UTC)Also, in re secret Kiwi, I laughed, but I also remembered that I dreamed last night that I somehow became an aide or staffer or something similar to US Senator Elizabeth Warren (from Massachusetts! Hearteyes!), and a couple of days into this position remembered that I was Canadian and probably not eligible for it, after which the dream took on an entire CANADIAN IMPOSTER IN THE AMERICAN SENATE dimension. Oh, brain.
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Date: 2017-07-14 05:27 pm (UTC)I think until 1990-something the citizenship oath required you to abjure all other loyalties or something, thus Abetz. I'm not sure why this doesn't apply to Ludlam - he must've naturalised before that??? But just saying that oath doesn't tell the OTHER country you've renounced. Some countries automatically cancel your citizenship if you take up another, unless you make a special application; NZ and Germany evidently aren't among them.
I think if Ludlam were in a major party he'd probably make the same claim Abetz did, that he *believed* he had renounced NZ cizitenship so there. But if he did that he'd remain a liability to his minor party.
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Date: 2017-07-14 05:51 pm (UTC)That said, the thing that really does take down Canadian politicians, at least when it comes to getting Canadians to vote for them, is ties to the US. If you've spent too long in the US and it looks like you might have liked it, good luck getting elected. Hence one of the long list of reasons I could never succeed in Canadian politics...
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Date: 2017-07-15 12:29 pm (UTC)The situation with Ludlam's Senate seat is now that the WA Greens member with the next-most number of votes, Jordon Steele-John, would theoretically take Scott's seat in the Senate. However, Jordon doesn't necessarily want to take it, which means that he would take it and immediately resign, forming a casual vacancy which the WA Greens could then fill as they saw fit (probably with an internal party ballot? not sure).