The Morrison government’s slender parliamentary majority is set to be tested by the High Court after challenges were launched to the election of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and rookie Liberal MP Gladys Liu.
Mr Frydenberg is fighting on two fronts, with one constituent wanting the Treasurer to show he had renounced any inherited claim to Hungarian citizenship through his mother, a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
The Morrison government’s slender parliamentary majority is set to be tested by the High Court after challenges were launched to the election of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and rookie Liberal MP Gladys Liu.
Mr Frydenberg is fighting on two fronts, with one constituent wanting the Treasurer to show he had renounced any inherited claim to Hungarian citizenship through his mother, a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
Seperately, businessman Oliver Yates, who ran unsuccessfully as an independent against Mr Frydenberg in his seat of Kooyong at the May election, has complained Liberal Party election posters written in Mandarin were designed to deceive and mislead Chinese voters.
A constituent in the neighbouring seat of Chisholm, Leslie Hall, is petitioning the court challenging Ms Liu’s election on the same grounds,
Mr Frydenberg maintained the challenge to him, launched under the constitution’s now notorious section 44, lacked foundation.
Read the article by Andrew Tillett in the Australian Financial Review.