CATCHWORDS
Re Gallagher
Constitutional law (Cth) – Parliamentary elections – Senate – Questions referred to Court of Disputed Returns by Senate – Where senator was foreign citizen at date of nomination for election – Where renunciation of foreign citizenship registered after return as duly elected senator – Whether senator disqualified by reason of s 44(i) of Constitution because of foreign citizenship – Whether foreign law irremediably prevented participation in representative government.
Words and phrases – "a subject or a citizen … of a foreign power", "constitutional imperative", "incapable of being chosen", "irremediably prevent".
Constitution, s 44(i).
