Lamb put to the slaughter with Albanese sacrificing Labor MP
Bill Shorten says MPs just need to read the Constitution if they don’t want to get in trouble over section 44. The Labor leader in Melbourne, November 6:
Shorten: As for constitutional change, Labor’s view is it’s not the Constitution that needs to change, it’s the members of parliament who don’t respect the Constitution.
Journalist: So, would Susan Lamb or Justine Keay pass these tests?
Shorten: Yes.
Susan Lamb is definitely not cooked, Labor says. Shorten speaking in Maryborough, November 9 last year:
I have got total confidence that when we have universal disclosure of all MPs that both Justine Keay and Susan Lamb have satisfied the necessary tests, full stop.
She’s not even turning the least bit brown. Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek in Sydney, Sunday:
I am not in a position to answer detailed questions about the steps that Labor MPs took to find documents of the type that you are detailing — what I can say certainly is that our legal advice, on all of our MPs, says that they took every reasonable step to renounce citizenship before they became members of parliament.
So here’s Anthony Albanese with a flamethrower to finally roast Lamb. The Labor frontbencher when asked if Lamb is a UK citizen on the ABC’s RN Breakfast, yesterday:
I don’t know …
Time to eat up, High Court judges. Ean Higgins in The Australian, yesterday:
Sydney University professor of constitutional law Anne Twomey reviewed the citizenship documents Ms Lamb submitted to parliament. Professor Twomey concluded that because Ms Lamb declared she held British citizenship on the form she submitted to the British Home Office seeking to renounce it, and the Home Office did not accept the application, she remained a dual national.
Albanese disagrees with targeting Liberal MPs over their citizenship. The opposition frontbencher on Sky News, December 11:
With regard to other people, I’m not going to get into and I haven’t — you might note since the beginning of this debate — I haven’t gone into pointing fingers at people and their backgrounds.
Albanese doesn’t like Shorten’s “Employ Australians First” advertisement. The Labor lion speaking in Canberra, May 8:
Albanese: Well I think the ad is a shocker. And it should never have been produced and it should never be shown.
Reporter: Is it embarrassing for the Labor Party?
Albanese: It’s a shocker of an ad. It is not the sort of ad that I want my party to be promoting.
Reporter: What’s wrong with it? What in particular?
Albanese: I think anyone who sees it will know exactly what’s wrong with it.
Albanese backs the government’s budget on the Nine Network’s Today, May 18:
Budget 2017 was an overwhelming victory for the Australian Labor Party.
Albanese is a huge pain in Shorten’s backside. And a big threat. Graham Richardson in The Weekend Australian, December 30:
Shorten has been too concerned. Albo is a very effective frontbencher who is always out doing the hard yards on radio and television.