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Flat White

What shall we do about Section 44?

19 July 2017

1:00 PM

19 July 2017

1:00 PM

Did you hear the one about Senator Richard Di Natale approaching the Deep Thought super-computer and asking what’s the answer to the ultimate question of life, universe and everything – and Deep Thought saying “Forty-four. Section 44.”?

No? That’s because I just put on my dad cap and came up with it (for the non-con law nerds, Section 44 of the Constitution states, among other things, that a person who “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...

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