Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh writes for The Conversation
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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Benbrika’s citizenship had been revoked as a result of his conviction in 2008 of a range of terrorism offences, including directing the activities of a terrorist organisation for which he was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.
Following the court’s decision, Benbrika remains an Australian citizen. So will he go free? And what does this mean for national security?
