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Don't Australia have extradition treaty agreements with the U.S.?
by kmfrk 14y ago
Don't Australia have extradition treaty agreements with the U.S.?
- jeza 14y agoMight be harder to extradite a senator?
- kmfrk 14y agoDefinitely harder, but I just wonder if I'd feel comfortable with this as my only plan to avoid prosecution.
- gavinballard 14y agoI imagine it's probably a bit tricky to extradite a sitting member of the federal Parliament...
- digitalengineer 14y agoExtradite, waterboard, soletary confinement, sleep deprivation... The only positive thing is it would set a nice precedent for corrupt Parliament members.
- mr_eel 14y agoI appreciate the humour, but he's running for Senate, not Parliament :)
- rmccue 14y agoParliament includes both Houses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Australia (Sorry to be pedantic. ;) )
- chris_wot 14y agoThe House of Representatives is what I think is being thought of :-) Sorry to pile on, but as an aside, in the Senate it's all red, and in the House of Representatives it's Royal Red. In Australia, exit signs are green - everywhere except in the senate, which apparently amended legislation to my the sign red. Given their preference for red, however, one wonders why there are so many of The Greens in the Senate.
- mr_eel 14y agoSorry… it's HN, it brings out the finest pedantry in me.
- chris_wot 14y agoDon't apologise, there's always someone ready to correct you when the mood strikes! Speaking of taking undue care, I always ensure I double check the word "pedantry" when typing it into a text box via an iPad, lest the "n" turn into an "s".
- rmc 14y agoSeveral IRA terrorists have been elected to the UK parliament whole in prison. Doesn't mean they were out of prison, they still had to stay in prison
- mmcnickle 14y agoI believe only one, Bobby Sands, was elected to Parliament. The government quickly introduced the Representation of the People Act (1981)[1], to prevent prisoners serving terms longer than a year from being nominated/elected in the future. [1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1981
- kmfrk 14y agoA suspected criminal is a suspected criminal; I don't know what the tradition is in Oz, but wouldn't they vote (present a majority) to nullify any diplomatic immunity? I know about cases in parliamentary democracies where someone's immunity has been nullified - assuming they have it in Australia - but only in domestic disputes, not international.
- jacques_chester 14y agoAustralia does not have immunity for Parliamentarians. Immunity is mostly a feature of countries with fully separated powers. In fused Parliamentary systems it makes less sense to worry about the infringements of the Executive upon the Legislative, because the Executive is subsidiary to the Legislative.
- lucian1900 14y agoExtraditing a senator for whatever reason would be much more obviously political discrimination.
- vacri 14y agoIt's not a problem because there's no way he'd get in. Even people sympathetic to him as a person would think he'd be incredibly ineffectual - a literally absent senator. And yes, we have extradition treaties with the US - a few years ago, we dutifully handed over a hacker who had never set foot in US soil, because his activities were harming US profits somewhere. EDIT: It reminds me of a Mad Magazine gag: One of the good things about being a senator is that you get to use the title The Honourable right up until they throw you in jail for all the things you did.