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I imagine it's probably a bit tricky to extradite a sitting member of the federal Parliament...

digitalengineer 14y ago
Extradite, waterboard, soletary confinement, sleep deprivation... The only positive thing is it would set a nice precedent for corrupt Parliament members.
- mr_eel 14y ago
  I appreciate the humour, but he's running for Senate, not Parliament :)
  - rmccue 14y ago
    Parliament 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 ago
      The 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 ago
  Sorry… it's HN, it brings out the finest pedantry in me.
  - chris_wot 14y ago
    Don'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 ago
Several 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 ago
  I 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 ago
A 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 ago
  Australia 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.

Extradite, waterboard, soletary confinement, sleep deprivation... The only positive thing is it would set a nice precedent for corrupt Parliament members.

mr_eel 14y ago
I appreciate the humour, but he's running for Senate, not Parliament :)
- rmccue 14y ago
  Parliament 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 ago
    The 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 ago
Sorry… it's HN, it brings out the finest pedantry in me.
- chris_wot 14y ago
  Don'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 ago

Several 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 ago
I 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 ago

A 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 ago
Australia 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.