Published: January 03, 2019
Standoff between Australia and Fiji highlights Law Council’s concern that automatic stripping of citizenship risks leaving people stateless
Laws which allow the automatic stripping of an Australian’s citizenship contain a high risk that someone may be left stateless, the president of the Law Council has said, amid a growing standoff between Australia and Fiji over the Isis recruiter Neil Prakash.
Arthur Moses SC said Prakash’s case demonstrated the concerns the council had raised in 2015 when the Australian government introduced the legislation, and raised “serious questions” regarding its process.
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