The federal opposition is pushing ahead with plans to challenge Lidia Thorpe’s eligibility to sit in Parliament, despite a leading constitutional lawyer claiming the firebrand Senator’s misspoken oath of allegiance was not grounds for disqualification.
The Coalition is pushing ahead with plans to challenge Lidia Thorpe 's eligibility to sit in Parliament, despite a leading constitutional scholar stating the firebrand Indigenous Senator's claim she only pledged allegiance to Queen Elizabeth's"hairs" was not grounds for disqualification.
“What we see now is a circumstance that creates a doubt over her eligibility and validity to have taken up her seat in the Senate, and that obviously requires some careful analysis and consideration.” “So it's an internal parliamentary matter. If the Senate decided that she had not validly made an oath, then it could exclude her from sitting… But that would be a matter for the House."
Sydney University law professor Anne Twomey said that despite her misspoken oath, Senator Thorpe had still signed a written oath and the High Court was unlikely to take up the issue. “But it doesn't come with any practical consequence in terms of their ability to continue to sit in that chamber, whether there is any suspension to that ability, whether there are other impacts that have been considered in recent times for other conduct issues for parliamentarians around salary or those types of factors as well.”
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