Andrew Bolt's Blog, 4/1/19; Andrew Bolt's away and it's amazing how wiser heads prevail; Liberal Women; Peter Dutton,

1. Peter Dutton defends process which saw jailed IS extremist Neil Prakash stripped of citizenship

   
    Would Dutton ignore the US as easily as he does Fiji? What actually constitutes bullying? Ensuring the Pacific Islands are handed over to the Chinese? Well that began with Tony Abbott the pillock of the Pacific. These Liberals are content to treat all our neighbours as potential enemies rather than friends. "But the head of Fiji's Immigration Department, Nemani Vuniwaqa, told a local newspaper Prakash was not a Fijian citizen.
   "Neil Prakash has not been or is a Fijian citizen," Mr Vuniwaqa told the Fiji Sun.
   "For a child of a Fiji citizen born overseas, the parent has to apply for citizenship for the child to become a Fiji citizen. The department has searched the immigration system and confirms that he has not entered the country nor applied for citizenship since birth."
   It appears Fijian law runs second to Australian. However Dutton has left Prakash stateless .
   (ODT)
   
   The Home Affairs Minister says a government board was satisfied Islamic State extremist Neil Prakash held dual citizenship when it cleared the way for him to be stripped of his Australian passport. But that assessment has been questioned by Fijian officials. (The Age)

 Disordered, unplanned: everyday terrorism is spreading like a virus

 As a result, we’re seeing lines blurring what were once more-distinct. Terrorist and non-terrorist incidents are becoming indistinguishable by their appearance and even their effect. And any given act of violence can be heightened to terrorism by the utterance of a few words as a perpetrator is arrested. If authorities simply declined to pass on those words there would be no obvious political message communicated at all. It’s a far cry from the carefully conceived plot with an easily-discerned symbolic target and some accompanying manifesto shouting at the world. Once there was no mistaking the political seriousness of the terrorist group. Now you need a team of psychologists to figure out if it’s more a rhetorical costume. Waleed Aly

Liberal Party on track to run lowest number of female candidates this century

With a few seats yet to have Liberal candidates, the party is all but guaranteed of falling short of the previous low this century when 27 women stood for election at the 2001 poll.

• by Shane Wright & Max Koslowski