On Sunday 8 May 2016the Prime Minister announced there would be a federal election on 2 July that year.
Writs were issued on 16 May and the rolls closed 23 May 2016.
At 12 noon on Thursday 9 June 2016 close of
nominations for both House of Representatives and Senate candidates occurred.
Early voting commenced on 14 June and Election Day ended at 6pm on 2 July 2016.
According to One Nation Senator Malcolm Ieuan Roberts as reported in The Age on 27 July 2017; he wrote to the British
authorities on May 1 last year to ask them whether he was a British citizen,
given he was born to a Welsh father in India.
However, this tweet by Chief Political Correspondent, Sydney Morning Herald & The Age, James Massola, throws Malcolm Roberts assertion that he was not a British citizen at the time of nomination into doubt.
It appears that U.K. authorities and Mr. Roberts may possibly have different views of when he ceased to be a British citizen.
I strongly suspect that the High Court of Australia would be inclined to accept the word of the U.K. Government over that of Malcolm Roberts if this difference is confirmed.
He says he got no
response so he wrote a further email on June 6 - three days before nominations
closed - saying that if he was a citizen he fully renounced. He subsequently
nominated as a candidate and won a Queensland Senate seat.
However, this tweet by Chief Political Correspondent, Sydney Morning Herald & The Age, James Massola, throws Malcolm Roberts assertion that he was not a British citizen at the time of nomination into doubt.
It appears that U.K. authorities and Mr. Roberts may possibly have different views of when he ceased to be a British citizen.
I strongly suspect that the High Court of Australia would be inclined to accept the word of the U.K. Government over that of Malcolm Roberts if this difference is confirmed.
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