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Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland

Is a terrorist’s win in the High Court bad for national security? Not necessarily

Yesterday, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, perhaps Australia’s most notorious convicted terrorist, won in the High Court.

A six-one majority of the court struck down a ministerial power to revoke the Australian citizenship of certain terrorist offenders.

Benbrika’s citizenship had been revoked as a result of his conviction in 2008 of a range of terrorism offences, including directing the activities of a terrorist organisation for which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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