But how am I going to explain this to the Americans?

[tielan]

Right, so, the Australian High Court has declared five Australian politicians ineligible for Australian parliament - ONE OF THEM THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER. There were seven in total, but five were declared ineligible (two of whom had already resigned). The other two were allowed (but one had already resigned before the verdict came out).

This was after that self-same deputy prime minister (now ineligible for his position and out of parliament) gleefully cackled over those two who pre-resigned discovering themselves ineligible.

Let me tell you, the schadenfreude is DELICIOUS.

Comments

[monanotlisa]

Wow. *blink*

[deird1]

Yes, we're serving schadenfreude pie down in these parts as well...

:)

[theladyscribe]

Wait, why are they ineligible for parliament?

[havocthecat]

That's pretty damn fascinating, I have to admit. So...got any good recommendations for an Australian news site that I can go read about this on? Wow. There must be years of drama behind this. I check out BBC News, but I haven't gotten a hint of this, so I must not be checking the right articles on there.

(I desperately need political drama that's not American. Please. Just tell me a decent news site and I'll go read up on it.)

[heliopausa]

Yes, it is (the schadenfreude). I loved that the Greens were the ones with the integrity to resign straightaway, too.
Goodness knows what the wash-up will be - I'd be surprised if Joyce doesn't get back in, but in the meantime, what happens in parliament? I'll be watching Insiders tomorrow with keen attention.

[ninja007]

Nice!