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(i) Can a person obtain Australian citizenship without first obtaining State citizenship (Quasi
States being Territories included)? If so, then by which constitutional valid manner?
(ii) Does the Commonwealth have constitutional powers to define citizenship? If so;
(a) under which provision? And
(b) in regard of aliens and immigrants; or
(c) in regard to any person within (b), as well as and including those born within Australia?
(iii) Does the Commonwealth have constitutional powers to declare and/or grant citizenship? If so,
(d) under which provision? And
(e) in regard of aliens and immigrants; or
(f) in regard to any person within (b), as well as and including those born within Australia?
(iv) Does the Commonwealth have the constitutional powers to determine the rights of a resident in a
State to obtain citizenship of such State? If so, by which constitutional powers?
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This, as I held that not a single lawyer/judge was validly appointed as Australian citizenship
cannot be constitutionally a nationality. If judges are not validly appointed then well there is no
court to hear and determine matters.
I am aware of the High Court of Australia Sue v Hill judgment but as this was to some extent
outside the judicial powers of the High Court of Australia anyone can disregard this.
Re Wakim; Ex parte McNally; Re Wakim; Ex parte Darvall; Re Brown; Ex parte Amann; Spi [1999] HCA 27
(17 June 1999)
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For constitutional purposes, they are a nullity. No doctrine of res judicata or issue estoppel can prevail
against the Constitution. Mr Gould is entitled to disregard the orders made in Gould v Brown. No doubt, as
Latham CJ said of invalid legislation, "he will feel safer if he has a decision of a court in his favour".
That is because those relying on the earlier decision may seek to enforce it against Mr Gould.
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As such one can ignore the beyond judicial powers ruling of the High Court of Australia
regarding this citizenship issue, etc.
The Framers of the Constitution made clear:
Hansard 2-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
QUOTE
Mr. SYMON ( South Australia ).-
In the preamble honorable members will find that what we desire to do is to unite in one indissoluble Federal
Commonwealth -that is the political Union-"under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland , and under the Constitution hereby established." Honorable members will therefore see that the
application of the word Commonwealth is to the political Union which is sought to be established. It is not
intended there to have any relation whatever to the name of the country or nation which we are going to create
under that Union . The second part of the preamble goes on to say that it is expedient to make provision for
the admission of other colonies into the Commonwealth. That is, for admission into this political Union,
which is not a republic, which is not to be called a dominion, kingdom, or empire, but is to be a Union
by the name of "Commonwealth," and I do not propose to interfere with that in the slightest degree.
END QUOTE
And
HANSARD 2-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
QUOTE
Mr. BARTON.-I did not say that. I say that our real status is as subjects, and that we are all alike
subjects of the British Crown.
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And
Hansard 17-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates QUOTE Sir EDWARD BRADDON.-
When we consider how vast the importance is that every word of the Constitution should be correct,
that every clause should fit into every other clause; when we consider the great amount of time,
trouble, and expense it would take to make any alteration, and that, if we have not made our
intentions clear, we shall undoubtedly have laid the foundation of lawsuits of a most extensive nature,
which will harass the people of United Australia and create dissatisfaction with our work, it must be
evident that too much care has not been exercised. END QUOTE
.
Hansard 8-2-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
QUOTE
Mr. OCONNOR (New South Wales).-The honorable and learned member (Mr. Isaacs) is I think correct
in the history of this clause that he has given, and this is [start page 672] one of those instances which should
make us very careful of following too slavishly the provisions of the United States Constitution, or any other
Constitution. No doubt in putting together the draft of this Bill, those who were responsible for doing so used
the material they found in every Constitution before it, and probably they felt that they would be incurring a
great deal of responsibility in leaving out provisions which might be in the least degree applicable. But it is
for us to consider, looking at the history and reasons for these provisions in the Constitution of the United
States, whether they are in any way applicable; and I quite agree with my honorable and learned friend (Mr.
Carruthers) that we should be very careful of every word that we put in this Constitution, and that we should
have no word in it which we do not see some reason for. Because there can be no question that in time to
come, when this Constitution has to be interpreted, every word will be weighed and an interpretation given to
it; and by the use now of what I may describe as idle words which we have no use for, we may be giving a
Hansard 17-3-1898 Constitution convention Debates (Official Record of the Debates of the National
Australasian Convention)
QUOTE Mr. BARTON.-
Providing, as this Constitution does, for a free people to elect a free Parliament-giving that people
through their Parliament the power of the purse-laying at their mercy from day to day the existence
of any Ministry which dares by corruption, or drifts through ignorance into, the commission of any
act which is unfavorable to the people having this security, it must in its very essence be a free
Constitution. Whatever any one may say to the contrary that is secured in the very way in which the
freedom of the British Constitution is secured. It is secured by vesting in the people, through their
representatives, the power of the purse, and I venture [start page 2477] to say there is no other way of
securing absolute freedom to a people than that, unless you make a different kind of Executive than
that which we contemplate, and then overload your Constitution with legislative provisions to protect
the citizen from interference. Under this Constitution he is saved from every kind of interference.
Under this Constitution he has his voice not only in the, daily government of the country, but in the
daily determination of the question of whom is the Government to consist. There is the guarantee of
freedom in this Constitution. There is the guarantee which none of us have sought to remove, but
every one has sought to strengthen. How we or our work can be accused of not providing for the
popular liberty is something which I hope the critics will now venture to explain, and I think I have
made their work difficult for them. Having provided in that way for a free Constitution, we have
provided for an Executive which is charged with the duty of maintaining the provisions of that
Constitution; and, therefore, it can only act as the agents of the people. We have provided for a
Judiciary, which will determine questions arising under this Constitution, and with all other
questions which should be dealt with by a Federal Judiciary and it will also be a High Court of
Appeal for all courts in the states that choose to resort to it. In doing these things, have we not provided,
first, that our Constitution shall be free: next, that its government shall be by the will of the people, which is
the just result of their freedom: thirdly, that the Constitution shall not, nor shall any of its provisions, be
twisted or perverted, inasmuch as a court appointed by their own Executive, but acting
independently, is to decide what is a perversion of its provisions? We can have every faith in the
constitution of that tribunal. It is appointed as the arbiter of the Constitution. It is appointed not to be
above the Constitution, for no citizen is above it, but under it; but it is appointed for the purpose of
saying that those who are the instruments of the Constitution-the Government and the Parliament of
the day-shall not become the masters of those whom, as to the Constitution, they are bound to serve.
What I mean is this: That if you, after making a Constitution of this kind, enable any Government or
any Parliament to twist or infringe its provisions, then by slow degrees you may have that
Constitution-if not altered in terms-so whittled away in operation that the guarantees of freedom
which it gives your people will not be maintained; and so, in the highest sense, the court you are
creating here, which is to be the final interpreter of that Constitution, will be such a tribunal as will
preserve the popular liberty in all these regards, and will prevent, under any pretext of constitutional
action, the Commonwealth from dominating the states, or the states from usurping the sphere of the
Commonwealth. Having provided for all these things, I think this Convention has done well.
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It therefore was beyond the judicial powers of the High Court of Australia to make any ruling
violating the true meaning and application of the constitution. In my view it was nothing less
than TREASON by the High Court of Australia to pretend otherwise then what is
constitutionally applicable.
QUOTE 19-11-2002 correspondence to Victorian Attorney-General
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Attorney General 19-11-2002
Victoria
Fax 9651 0577 AND TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
URGENT
Sir/Madam
Since 27-9-2002 I sought clarification about what, if any State citizenship I have
as to be able to obtain Australian citizenship, yet, in the recent 18 November 2002 response it
was stated;
As explained in my previous letter, citizenship is a matter for the Commonwealth,
not the States. You indicated that you were naturalized in 1994. As result of that, you
are an Australian citizen.
This utter ridiculous response was provided by RUVANI WICKS, Assistant Director, Civil
Branch of the Department of Justice.
END QUOTE 19-11-2002 correspondence to Victorian Attorney-General
United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542, 554, 23 L. Ed. 588 (1876),
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/89309/united-states-v-cruikshank/?
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In Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wall. 178, we decided that the Constitution of the United
States has not conferred the right of suffrage upon any one, and that the United States
have no voters of their own creation in the States.
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Section 41 of the Constitution only provides the right to vote if one is an adult (depending what
age the Commonwealth ascribes to a person being an adult) but it cannot have its own electoral
roll. This, as the Commonwealth cannot give any person the right to vote who doesnt hold the
right to vote in a State (Territories are a quasi-state). As the Framers of the Constitution made
clear that the Commonwealth would have to rely upon State electoral rolls for federal elections.
When a person has the right to walk along highways as a pedestrian no one in his right mind
would then claim that the Government can force any person to walk say 1 kilometre along a
highway. What the Parliament however can do is to legislate that if a person is a pedestrian then
the person has to obey appropriate road rules and other legal provisions. Likewise so with voting.
A person cannot be forced to vote but if the person does exercise that right then the person can be
compelled to follow the rules and regulations as to the voting process.
Mr. GORDON.-There will be more than one sentry. In the case of a federal law, every member of a
state Parliament will be a sentry, and, every constituent of a state Parliament will be a sentry.
As regards a law passed by a state, every man in the Federal Parliament will be a sentry, and the whole
constituency behind the Federal Parliament will be a sentry.
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":.. The starting point for a principled interpretation of the Constitution is the search for the intention of its
makers" Gaudron J (Wakim, HCA27\99)
Re Wakim; Ex parte McNally; Re Wakim; Ex parte Darvall; Re Brown; Ex parte Amann; Spi [1999] HCA
27 (17 June 1999)
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Constitutional interpretation
The starting point for a principled interpretation of the Constitution is the search for the intention of its
makers[51]. That does not mean a search for their subjective beliefs, hopes or expectations. Constitutional
interpretation is not a search for the mental states of those who made, or for that matter approved or
enacted, the Constitution. The intention of its makers can only be deduced from the words that they used in
the historical context in which they used them[52]. In a paper on constitutional interpretation, presented at
Fordham University in 1996, Professor Ronald Dworkin argued, correctly in my opinion[53]:
"We must begin, in my view, by asking what - on the best evidence available - the authors of the text
in question intended to say. That is an exercise in what I have called constructive interpretation[54]. It
does not mean peeking inside the skulls of people dead for centuries. It means trying to make the best
sense we can of an historical event - someone, or a social group with particular responsibilities,
speaking or writing in a particular way on a particular occasion."
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The term citizenship in constitutional context refers to the location a person resides. As such,
take Julian Assange residing in an embassy of a foreign power, cannot then take up a seat in the
Parliament even if elected. He could validly stand for election as s44 was not intended to
disqualify him from being elected, provided that before he takes up the seat he disposes of such
citizenship of residing elsewhere. For all purposes and intend he is still as a British subject
entitled to be a Member of Parliament if he no longer is a citizen of a foreign power.
Moment, didnt the High court of Australia in wood and in Heather Hill cases (Sue v Hill) rule
that being a British subject disqualifies a person from holding a seat in the federal parliament?
Well the High Court of Australia may have done so but in my view this was without jurisdiction
and so cannot be applied.
One may then ask what about the Australian Citizenship Act 1948?
Hansard 9-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
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Mr. DEAKIN (Victoria).-The position of my honorable and learned friend (Mr. [start page 2092] Higgins)
may be perfectly correct. It may be that without any special provision the practice of the High Court, when
declaring an Act ultra vires, would be that such a declaration applied only to the part which trespassed
beyond the limits of the Constitution. If that were so, it would be a general principle applicable to the
interpretation of the whole of the Constitution.
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.
Hansard 1-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
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Mr. GORDON.-Well, I think not. I am sure that if the honorable member applies his mind to the subject he
will see it is not abstruse. If a statute of either the Federal or the states Parliament be taken into court
the court is bound to give an interpretation according to the strict hyper-refinements of the law. It may
be a good law passed by "the sovereign will of the people," although that latter phrase is a common one which
I do not care much about. The court may say-"It is a good law, but as it technically infringes on the
Constitution we will have to wipe it out." As I have said, the proposal I support retains some remnant of
parliamentary sovereignty, leaving it to the will of Parliament on either side to attack each other's laws.
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Can it be suggested, however high the Federal High Court may be in regard to attainments, that under any
circumstances the Judges of that court would have the experience, the training, and the knowledge of the men
composing the Court of the Privy Council? Would it be possible to separate the members of the Federal
High Court from local influences? Unintentionally, men are influenced by their surrounding
conditions. It does not follow because a man is to-day in public life as Attorney-General, and to-
morrow is sitting on the bench wearing the ermine, that he can dissociate himself or separate himself
from local surroundings and be unbiased or uninfluenced by those considerations. Take a case of
importance arising here. I admit that our Judges have great learning and extensive knowledge, and I admit the
great power and the great strength of our Supreme Courts throughout the various colonies, but I say that they
can have no experience equal to the men who occupy positions on the bench of the Privy Council. We are
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told, however, that the members of the Privy Council do not understand our law, that they do not know our
conditions, and that they are unacquainted with local influences. Well, I have always considered that a very
trifling matter in fact, I have thought it was a very desirable thing that they did not understand our local
conditions, because our laws are not to be interpreted in regard to local conditions, but according to the intent
contained within every word in them, apart from local conditions. I have heard men express their
astonishment that the Judges of our own Supreme Court have not taken into consideration the Hansard
debates when they were giving judgment. I feel quite sure that when an appeal goes to the Privy Council all
these considerations are completely wiped out. The members [start page 2290] of the Board of the Privy
Council do not consider our local conditions, but interpret our Acts in the words in which they are printed. I
have already referred to the two chief objections to appeals to the Privy Council; first, the expense, and,
secondly, the delay. I have endeavoured to show that the expense is not so enormous as it is represented to be.
If honorable members will look at the return in relation to appeals to the Privy Council from decisions of the
Supreme Court in Queensland every layman, at all events, will be struck by the fact that the expenses of one
appeal were only 29 in Queensland, and 219 in the Privy Council-that means the taxed costs of the appeal.
It has nothing to do with the local costs; it means the preparation of the transcript and the final cost in
London. The difference between the cost of appeals to the proposed High Court and the cost of appeals to the
Privy Council is well but rather under stated, by Sir Lambert Dobson, in a document which is quoted at page
969 of the report of the debates of this Convention at Adelaide; and I think that we are very much indebted to
Sir Edward Braddon for quoting that information in the speech which he delivered on that occasion. In many
cases counsel's fees at the present time are higher here than I have ever known them before, and I say this
with a knowledge extending over 30 years of practical experience.
Mr. BARTON.-Counsel's fees are a great deal lower with us than they were a few years ago.
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Obviously as I view it, the High court of Australia sittings as a Court of disputed Returns for the
politicians in the Sue v Hill case may have grabbed the opportunity to hand down a judgment
declaring the Commonwealth of Australia to be an independent nation so it could so to say
prevent the Privy Council ever overruling its judgments. But in my view there was no judicial
powers to do so in an ordinary sitting.
If the constitution doesnt allow the Commonwealth of Australia to be turned into some republic
then the High Court of Australia cannot then achieve by backdoor manner what cannot be
achieved in a direct legal manner. Section 128 referendum of 1999 for a republic was ill-
conceived as it was beyond referendum powers to amend any of the other parts of the
constitution that are beyond the 128 sections.
Hansard 31-3-1891 Constitution Convention Debates QUOTE Sir SAMUEL GRIFFITH:
There must be some method, and we suggest that as a reasonable one. With respect to amendments of
the constitution, it is proposed that a law to amend the constitution must be passed by an absolute
majority of both the senate and the house of representatives; that, if that is done, the proposed
amendment must be submitted for the opinion of the people of the states to be expressed in conventions
elected for the purpose, and that then if the amendment is approved by a majority of the conventions
in the states it shall become law, subject of course to the Queen's power of disallowance. Otherwise the
constitution might be amended, and by a few words the commonwealth turned into a republic, which is
no part of the scheme proposed by this bill.
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As such, our true nationality is that of being British subjects and no one can be ousted from this.