The immigration minister has been under fire from the Coalition over a ministerial direction he made in January last year that has been linked to several AAT decisions.
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles says he will urgently consider overturning a number of recent tribunal decisions allowing visa holders to stay in Australia despite committing serious crimes.
Giles has been under fire from the Coalition over a ministerial direction he made in January last year that has been linked to several decisions by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal preventing foreign criminals with longstanding connections to Australia from being deported. Immigration Minister Andrew Giles has been under fire from the Coalition over a ministerial direction he made in January last year.Opposition Leader Peter Dutton asked Giles in parliamentary question time about the case of a New Zealand citizen who was allowed to stay in Australia despite raping his stepdaughter.
Giles said he had cancelled the man’s visa and it remained cancelled by the Department of Home Affairs before the tribunal ruled otherwise. “Now, I believe it is a decision that should still be cancelled, and I advise the House also that I have prioritised a number of cases for urgent cancellation consideration,” Giles said.
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