Hate preachers and terrorists could be stripped of citizenship under anti-terrorism proposal

In other news, our govt is making noises about revoking citizenship of some of the worst jihad gang bosses we’ve got on our soil (check out the Comments, *some* Aussies know what is at stake though not as many yet as I’d like)

HATE preachers and terrorists face being stripped of their Australian citizenship and sent back to their original countries under tough anti-terrorism measures being examined by the Abbott Government.

The proposal would see immigrants who became Australian citizens but then preached hate or carried out terrorist attacks given a one-way ticket back to their birth countries, or a third nation.

The move could for the first time encompass Australian citizens who were not dual nationals, meaning the terrorists and hate preachers would have to be accepted by another country.

That would mean people such as Melbourne hate preacher Harun Mehicevic, who migrated from Bosnia but became an Australian citizen in 1996, are on notice they could be stripped of their citizenship if found to be acting against the interests of Australia.

A Cabinet source said the plan would not affect Australian-born citizens who do not have or have not held another nationality. 

The ABC and those who comment there are, naturally, horrified:

“I think most Australians would want to make sure that people who have Australian citizenship treat it as a privilege,” Immigration Minister Peter Dutton told the ABC. “If people are going to act against our national interest in the name of terrorism, then we seriously have to question whether or not they can continue to be Australian citizens.”