See, eg, Constitution s 44(ii) disqualifying from the Australian Parliament anyone who is under sentence for an offence punishable by more than one years imprisonment.
Ibid. For an inside account of the media promotion of Hanson, see KingstonM, Off the Rails, The Pauline Hanson Trip (1999) ix–xix, 3–17.
8.
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) s 123: The favouring of ‘parliamentary parties’ has been narrowed since to cover only federal parliamentary parties.
9.
Sharples v O'Shea [1999] QSC190 [45–76].
10.
Kingston, above n 7, xvii–xix, 1–17.
11.
Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, 2 July 1998, 5971.
12.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ‘More Evidence Upturned on Tony Abbott's Involvement in Hanson Conviction’, PM, 26 August 2003 <http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s932599.htm>. Sharples was not able to make good that guarantee and was later bankrupted.
HeadM., ‘The High Court and the Tampa Refugees’ (2002) 11Griffith Law Review23.
26.
HeadM., ‘Counter-terrorism Laws: A Threat to Political Freedom, Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights’ (2002) 26Melbourne University Law Review666.
WilsonAMcGregorA, ‘Further Hanson Charge is Dropped’, The Australian, 26 August 2003, 4.
29.
Ibid.
30.
Hanson v DPP [2003] QCA409.
31.
Ibid [18] and [20].
32.
R v Hanson; R v Ettridge [2003] QCA488, [14].
33.
Ibid [15].
34.
Taylor v Johnson (1982–1983) 151CLR422, 429; Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of New South Wales (1981–1982) 149CLR337, 352–353; Australian Energy Limited v Lennard Oil NL [1986] 2Qd R216, 238.
