George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator McKim, that is why I said to you that you really ought to acquaint yourself with the provisions of the bill before you criticise it, because that is the very thing the bill does not do—the very thing the bill does not do. It creates an architecture which was constructed on the advice of very senior counsel in which in two sets of circumstances a person with dual citizenship may lose their citizenship. The first category of case is where the person by their conduct renounces their citizenship. That does not depend on a ministerial determination. The second category is where a person is convicted by a court of a serious terrorist crime. In those circumstances the minister, on the basis of the court's decision, may decide to revoke that person's citizenship. In neither case is there a ministerial determination independent of the courts. (Time expired)