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Apr 19th, 2017 at 2:00pm
 
Family First senator Lucy Gichuhi survives ALP challenge over citizenship concerns
By political reporters Matthew Doran, Henry Belot and Joanna Crothers
Updated about an hour ago

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PHOTO: Family First candidate Lucy Gichuhi. (Facebook: Lucy Gichuhi)
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The High Court has rejected Labor's push to challenge the eligibility of South Australian Family First senator Lucy Gichuhi based on concerns about her citizenship.

Key points:

High Court upholds Lucy Gichuhi's election to Senate
Labor said there were legitimate concerns over Ms Gichuhi's eligibility
Kenyan-born Gichuhi migrated to Australia in 1999, never held dual citizenship
The High Court today declared that Senator Gichuhi, who was born in Kenya, is free to replace Bob Day as a South Australian senator in the Federal Parliament.

The ruling came after she won the special recount of the vote last week.

Labor's acting shadow attorney-general Katy Gallagher had argued that there were legitimate questions about her eligibility that needed to be answered.

But today the full bench of the High Court rejected a push by lawyers for Labor's Anne McEwen, who wanted to challenge Senator Gichuhi's eligibility based on whether she still retained her Kenyan citizenship.

Justice Jeffery Nettle said Ms McEwen had ample time to arm herself with the evidence needed to challenge whether the senator had taken reasonable steps to denounce her Kenyan citizenship, as the issue had been before the court several times.

Commonwealth Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue said Kenyan law stated that a Kenyan's citizenship was automatically withdrawn once a person was over 21 and had taken up citizenship in another country.

Jeremy Kirk, acting on behalf of Ms McEwen, said he was still waiting on a report from an expert in Kenyan law as evidence to prove Senator Gichuhi held two citizenships.

"This is not about Ms Gichuhi, this is about the integrity of the Senate and the electoral system," Senator Gallagher said.

"It is incredibly important that the validity of each senator's election is beyond question.

"The last thing the country needs is a re-run of the Bob Day disaster."

Change in Kenya's citizenship law behind challenge

The Kenyan-born lawyer migrated to Australia in 1999 and said she became an Australian citizen in 2001 and never held dual citizenship.

Australia's constitution precludes anyone with dual citizenship from being in the parliament.

Kenya's High Commissioner to Australia said Senator Gichuhi automatically lost her Kenyan citizenship when she became an Australian citizen.

Who is Family First's Lucy Gichuhi?


The woman to replace Bob Day is from Kenya, and has been a volunteer lawyer with the Women's Legal Service.
But legal experts argued a challenge could still be launched against her because of a change to citizenship laws in her country of birth.

Before the hearing, Labor's national party president Mark Butler said now was the best time to work out whether she renounced her Kenyan citizenship before running.

"The legal advice we've received is that there remains a question about this matter and particularly where we've gone over the last couple of years with the question marks over Bob Day's eligibility," he said.

"We've taken the view that, particularly given that the High Court is convened, that this question needs to be answered once and for all, definitively."

It is unclear if Ms Gichuhi had to provide formal proof of having renounced her Kenyan citizenship before running for parliament.

She maintained there was no issue with her eligibility.

"I am an Australian citizen and am eligible to serve — I will continue to take advice on all of these matters as we move forward," Ms Gichuhi said in a statement last week.

Topics: federal-parliament, federal-government, government-and-politics, sa, australia

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Reply #1 - Apr 19th, 2017 at 2:12pm
 
Ummm why frame this as a racism issue.
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Reply #2 - Apr 19th, 2017 at 4:42pm
 
We don't got no Eases.. no Lebaneses, no Aborigineses, no Vietnameses...  not so sure about Kenyans...

But her stance on social security is cock-eyed - when will she lead a week with only $257 in her pocket, while seeking work in SA, and then come back to reality?

Just another silly rhetorical statement to give the slow-witted and the socially inept a buzz.....
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