{"id":1614,"date":"2019-02-19T07:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T07:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2019-02-19T07:36:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T07:36:04","slug":"dreyfus-fails-australia-and-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/dreyfus-fails-australia-and-australians\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreyfus fails Australia and Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having weakened Australia\u2019s tough border protection measures, Labor today walked away from another important matter of national security \u2013 in so doing it has ended bipartisanship on national security matters.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<em>Australian Citizenship Amendment (Strengthening the Citizenship Loss Provisions) 2018 Bill<\/em>\u00a0seeks to strengthen powers to deal with dual-national terrorists whose sole aim is to harm Australia and Australians.<br \/>\nThese are people who have betrayed their allegiance to Australia. Who have committed barbaric atrocities fighting for ISIS, sworn allegiance to ISIS and plotted to harm innocent Australians.<br \/>\nWe should be able to strip such people of their Australian citizenship.<br \/>\nYet Labor\u2019s Mark Dreyfus seeks any reason to oppose such measures and puts forward bizarre arguments supporting the legal rights of known terrorists to remain in our community and maintain their Australian citizenship.<br \/>\nThe legislation before the Parliament was drafted by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel with advice provided by the Chief General Counsel of the Australian Government Solicitor.<br \/>\nYet Mr Dreyfus prefers to rely on his Labor lawyer mates to find any reason to delay, stymie or reject the Government\u2019s proposed amendments to enable us to deal with terrorists who have no right to remain Australians.<br \/>\nThis is not a single instance, Mr Dreyfus is a serial offender.<br \/>\nHe sought and continues to seek to water down laws to enable law and intelligence agencies access to digital communications. He is stalling the\u00a0<em>Identity Matching Services Bill<\/em>\u00a0which aims to implement a COAG agreement to protect Australians from identity fraud and he defends Labor\u2019s opposition to mandatory mini mum sentences for firearms offences.<br \/>\nInfamous ISIS terrorist Neil Prakash forfeited his Australians citizenship, yet Mr Dreyfus argues he has not and remains an Australian.<br \/>\nUnder this Government 12 terrorists have lost their Australian citizenship.<br \/>\nDuring the last Labor period of Government \u2013 no one \u2013 not one- person lost their citizenship for any reason.<br \/>\nThis is another crucial test for the Leader of the Opposition.<br \/>\nHaving caved in to Labor\u2019s radical Left and agreed to trash the Coalition\u2019s successful border policies, does he support Mr Dreyfus\u2019 constant efforts to thwart legislation that seeks to protect Australia and Australians?<br \/>\nIf Mr Shorten and Mr Dreyfus want to run the lawyer line to look for some technicality to allow terrorists to remain or return to our country \u2013 that is an issue for them.<br \/>\nThe Morrison Coalition Government will seek to keep them as far from our shores as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having weakened Australia\u2019s tough border protection measures, Labor today walked away from another important matter of national security \u2013 in so doing it has ended bipartisanship on national security matters. The\u00a0Australian Citizenship Amendment (Strengthening the Citizenship Loss Provisions) 2018 Bill\u00a0seeks to strengthen powers to deal with dual-national terrorists whose sole aim is to harm Australia &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/19\/dreyfus-fails-australia-and-australians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dreyfus fails Australia and Australians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}