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Alan Collett
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Almost 300 permanent residents have been removed from Australia in the past five years for failing character tests.

Swinburne University researcher Glenn Nicholls calls it "the most sustained and energetic action on deportation that there has been in Australia".

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/almost-300-given...4/1132703316493.html


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I find this article very disturbing that someone can spend most of their life in Aus then because they commit a crime can be kicked out of the country. What is Australia comming to???? Why does it's government have to bring in rules like this??? Yes a certain time span and the htreat of being kicked out if misbehaving, but someone who's lived in Aus since being 18 months and who has family/children there, what crime could he commit to be banished from his loved ones forever???
 
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Perhaps they might have become Australian citizens ...? Though the cynical might bring up the case of Cornelia Rau in response ...

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Originally posted by Concerned:
I find this article very disturbing that someone can spend most of their life in Aus then because they commit a crime can be kicked out of the country. What is Australia comming to???? Why does it's government have to bring in rules like this??? Yes a certain time span and the htreat of being kicked out if misbehaving, but someone who's lived in Aus since being 18 months and who has family/children there, what crime could he commit to be banished from his loved ones forever???


Alan Collett
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Registered Migration Agent Number 0102534
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
http://www.gomatilda.com and
http://www.collettandco.co.uk
Offices in Southampton - England; Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, and Geelong - Australia
 
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PS. I'd also observe that these same provisions can impact on migrants who don't declare past criminal convictions that subsequently become known to the Department of Immigration.
 
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