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CITIZENSHIP 7 POEMS THE BALLAD OF BARNABY JOYCE’ Barnaby Joyce MP By S A McDonald ’Twas Barnaby from Tamworth, whom voters did affirm Would represent New England for the twenty sixteen term To keep his place in Parliament our Barnaby did defeat The independent Tony Windsor, former holder of the seat The election was a close one, with Turnbull re-elected And Barnaby as Deputy was once again selected But Barnaby’s opponent, that industrious Independent Had no idea that Barnaby was a New Zealand descendant Well Barnaby, he knew of course, his father had be proud To migrate to Australia from the Land of the Long White Cloud But what he hadn’t twigged to was that by this quirk of kinship Our Deputy Prime Minister held dual citizenship The citizenship crisis, first struck in mid July: Two Members who had not renounced and thought they must resign These first two victims both were Greens; their favourite sons and daughters The two co-deputy leaders, Mr Ludlam and Ms Waters Said Barnaby prophetically, when asked about the Greens: “The Constitution’s clear I think; it’s certain what it means “Ignorance is no excuse — the law is just the law “You can’t be a dual citizen, under section 44.” Matt Canavan, a National, and fellow Minister Then seemed to be Italian, though hardly sinister Then in August without warning, came the great catastrophe: Our Barnaby got a tip-off, that he might just be a kiwi Stephen Donaghue’s advice was sought, it seemed to be a beauty Barnaby could still perform his ministerial duty Turnbull was emphatic, the S-G’s advice was bold: “Barnaby’s qualified to sit, AND THE HIGH COURT WILL SO HOLD!” But when Barnaby stood in Parliament, and tried to use his voice He heard from the opposition bench an unseemly baa-ing noise But Barnaby our hero, he wasn’t finished yet At a hearing before Kiefel, a Full Court date was set And Barnaby in due course, was joined by several others: Fiona Nash his deputy, and Xenophon, and Roberts Barnaby engaged a team of lawyers led by Walker An advocate supposed to be the High Court’s greatest talker Written subs were filed, by which a pretty good attempt Was made to tell the High Court, that Barnaby was exempt. The argument, shortly stated? If a person never knew They had two nationalities, no split allegiance could accrue But when the hearing date arrived, our hero was shocked to see Represented at the bar table, his great adversary That’s right, old Tony Windsor had convinced the Court he’d reason To appear as contradictor, represented by Justin Gleeson Well, if ever there has been a match for Bret Walker SC It’s that former Solicitor-General’s brand of brilliant adv’cacy In time the arguments for Barnaby were skilfully encircled (Followed by a history lesson, presented by Ron Merkel) Both Donaghue and Walker, with silver tongue, replied And generally it was agreed, “This isn’t cut and dried.” “We know you want an answer, we’re afraid you’ll have to wait,” The Court declared, “We’ll be back soon, to tell you of your fate.” And so it was in just two weeks, the Court did reconvene Chief Justice Kiefel, Justice Bell, and Gag-e-ler and Keane And Nettle, Gordon, Edelman; they were unanimous Poor Barnaby disqualified: and yet magnanimous Among the silver gums, and far away from lawsuits Dressed in his Akubra hat and RM Williams boots He called a presser urgently, and Barnaby surmised: “I actually saw this coming; I’m not a bit surprised.” To everybody’s puzzlement, Tony Windsor then announced He’d not contest a by-election, and since Barnaby’d now renounced His new found nationality, he was eligible to run. “In fact,” he thought, “With Windsor out, this actually could be fun!” He knew the odds of victory towards him strongly lent: The two-party preferred margin was at 16.4 per cent! Meanwhile in the Parliament, more chaos was ensuing The President of the Senate, the very bloke who had been doing The referrals to the High Court, made an astonishing admission: He had known that he was British, but a senior politician Had advised him not to mention it, in the hope the Court would say That being a dual-citizen was actually okay. Vicious rumours circled, of Ecuadorians and Greeks And three more British citizens emerged in coming weeks John Alexander, a tennis player, who’d wondered all along Why he felt at home at Wimbledon as much as Bennelong The outspoken Jacquie Lambie, who’s family history had been written Now realised that her Network extended all the way to Britain With a mother born in Singapore was Skye Kakoschke-Moore All of these fell victim to the scourge of 44 And even as we gather here, to listen to this story A question mark still hovers above another category: Each MP with foreign ties which they had sought to sever Whose renunciation of citizenship, despite their best endeavour At the time of nomination, was sadly incomplete But back to our protagonist, and the race to fill his seat A motley field of candidates, in number seventeen Nominated for this by-election, the greatest ever seen Including if you can believe, this “name agnostic” smartie: Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow Meow for the Science Party I’ll bet my hat the voters of New England make the choice To keep this tale going: the adventures of Barnaby Joyce The by-election will be held on the second of December And so my friends, the ballad ends, because it’s still November. 26 THE BULLETIN <strong>February</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
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