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in Federal Parliament if he or she has allegiance to a foreign power, dual citizenship or the rights of citizenship of a foreign power. Indeed, the final report of the 1988 Constitutional Commission said:
We recommend that sections 44(1) and others be omitted and not replaced.
The Commission well understands the problem. In May last year I was on national television to answer the question of whether or not I was born in Rhodesia. At that time, on the Today program, with George Negus, I brought up the matter of dual citizenship. We spoke for some minutes on the matter and then I went across to the ABC, where I repeated my various accusations on the AM radio program. I said that this would make Watergate pale in comparison. There has been a senior level cover-up in all major areas in parliament in Australia, and so too has there been in the media.
As I have made that statement, members might wonder why I was on the media making my accusations. Well, the truth of the matter was that it was live Australia-wide television and radio. I personally have no doubt whatsoever that had it not been live my statements would never have gone across Australia. I think the proof of this is that immediately after I appeared on the radio and the television Australia-wide there was nothing of relevance printed in the media or issued on the electronic media as well. This is something that should be handled before 2 March and not later. We do not want a situation where there have to be by-elections all over the country.
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Collaery) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Executive Deputies
MR WOOD (5.00): Mr Speaker, before the Assembly resumes in two or three weeks' time, I think an unhappy event will have occurred - that is, that my friends and colleagues who are grassroots members of this Assembly will move from where we have been able to communicate on the first floor up to the fifth floor. I say this sadly because we have had a pleasant relationship over the past year. I do not wish to indulge in political point scoring, but I think that it will be an unhappy occurrence because it will be a measure that will further divide the groups in this Assembly. I do not look forward to that. It is not quite
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