When a State Government sits late into the night to pass legislation that makes certain government ministers immune from prosecution, that denies any right of appeal from their decisions, that does not allow natural justice to be a consideration and does not allow any freedom of information in respect of their deliberations, then I would be a little concerned Greg.

I do not think it is prudent to rely on "their ABC" to be unbiased or factually correct. I listened to an interview with Clive on the national broadcaster this morning and there is certainly more to this than is being reported by their handwringers and the perpetually offended.

I think the High Court will give this new legislation a short back and sides when it comes before them.

Whether you like the bloke or not, he is one of the few pollies that sat in parliament and donated all of his wages and allowances to charity.

I agree Mike. The HC cannot veto or dismiss legislation per se but what they can do is rule part of or all of it unconstitutional if that legislation is relied upon by one party in a court action. 

i would imagine if one party tries to sue another party and they are then estopped by this legislation then an appeal on the basis that the legislation is unconstitutional would give the HC jurisdiction.

Constitutional law was never my forte but I imagine CP has taken some pretty sound advice from those who specialise in that area.

Interesting times ahead, me thinks.

I don't know the man personally Greg so I cannot comment. If his claims and legal action have no merit then he will lose. If he loses not only will he have his own legal costs but he will also have to pay the State Government's legal costs which will be of no insignificant amount.

His success or otherewise will not be contingent on his popularity but whether the court accepts his claim.

Interesting times.

I see the crux of the issue re border closures as a conflict between unelected, non representative public servants, doing the will of their political masters.

From the onset of the pandemic the Federal Chief Health Officer said there was no need for border closures, then we have various state and territory Chief Health Offices offering a different view, thus it started with Tassie then the NT WA ACT and SA, NSW was forced into closing its border with Vic not by science but by media continual bombardment and harasment over the issue.

The NSW closure was a knee jerk reacation to the pressure but inflicted undue pain and suffering on it constituants who live on cross border towns, not just the Albury/Wodonga border but there are many along the Murray River and the high country, The Gonn crossing bridge locked those that shop in the small town of Murrabit now have to travel to Barham, Moulamein, Deniliquin or Moama, the majority of these towns save Deniliquin are at lacking in facilities and generally most travel to Victorian locations like Swan Hill, Kerang, Echuca and Bendigo, all a majority of the children travel by Bus each day to schools in Vic.

Many Victorians with Holiday home on the Gold and Sunshine coasts of Queensland are now changing their address to there and moving unrestriced, this information has come from a friend on the sunny coast, who works in the real estate, houses are sold sight unseen by cashed up Victorians no haggling, paying at or above the asking price.

People with the know how will jump boarders unhindered, its only the honest person the cannot.

Just consider the amount of class actions against governments that may come, if the high court finds in favor of CP, precedent has been set by governments allowing footballer to fly in and out states to play games, yet a private individual cannot fly into ie WA to conduct a business meeting and then fly out in his private plane, that smacks of discrimination and hypocrisy.

A good article on the Palmer/WA issue:

https://www.theage.com.au/national/what-are-the-disputes-involving-clive-palmer-and-the-wa-government-about-20200819-p55ndk.html