The High Court’s decision last month to disqualify five federal parliamentarians for being dual citizens represents the worst excesses of judicial activism in Australia.
In deciding that deputy PM Barnaby Joyce and Senators Fiona Nash, Malcolm Roberts, Scott Ludlam, and Larissa Waters were ineligible for parliament for being citizens of a foreign power, the High Court has not only confirmed the absurd precedent established by the activist court under Chief Justice Anthony Mason in the 1990s, but has once again repudiated sound constitutional philosophy as well as the founding fathers of our Federation.
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