There are seven justices of the High Court, but they might be hoping they had a few more on the bench to spread the workload as Parliament House keeps pumping out legal challenges.
Alongside the citizenship crisis, the latest case kicked down Capital Hill is another chapter in the same-sex plebiscite saga — a fight over the Coalition’s fall-back postal ballot.
Same-sex marriage advocates were quick to announce they would ask the highest legal authority in the land to rule whether the Government had the power to demand the poll, lodging an injunction immediately.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had announced his Government would rustle up $122 million to pay for the optional ballot.
Seemingly in an effort to avoid accusations of using the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) as a political pawn in his plan, he drafted in the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to manage the matter...
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