Published: November 22, 2018
Proposals require the home affairs minister only to be ‘reasonably satisfied’ convicted terrorist has another citizenship
A new regime of “exclusion orders” for people who have gone to prohibited conflict zones would effectively render suspected foreign fighters stateless, Australia’s peak lawyers’ body has warned.
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, has been forced to defend the legality of changes announced on Thursday with the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, after the Law Council of Australia said the government had “not made the case” for lowering the bar for stripping terrorists of Australian citizenship.
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