Daniel Love and Brendan Thoms are Australian Aborigines (a claim not yet fully established for one of them). They were born respectively in Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, and are citizens of those states who have been convicted of crimes in Australia. They have lived here for substantial periods of time, but have never sought Australian statutory citizenship. As a result of their crimes, they recently became subject to orders of deportation by the Australian government, against which they appealed to the High Court in the case named Love & Thoms v Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 3 (Love,…
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