HANSON SLAMS “BROKEN” DEPORTATION APPEALS SYSTEM
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Senator Pauline Hanson today described the actions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) in allowing non-citizen convicted criminals to remain in Australia as “a series of appalling mistakes that are totally against the best interests of the Australian people”.
“The AAT is broken,” she said.
“Countless Australian lives and families have been destroyed by the actions of these criminals and the Minister has rightly ordered their deportation.
“But the bleeding hearts at the AAT want us to believe these criminals are the victims and they are actually people of good character.
“Wife bashers, drug runners, armed robbers and gangsters from other countries are not of good character and the Australian people want them gone.
“Their victims didn’t get a second chance and they don’t deserve one either.
“The final decision in these matters should be with the Minister – not with political appointees or judges who are appointed for life without ever having their own performances judged.
“The Minister needs to be able to enforce decisions that are in the best interests of Australia.
“They live in a bubble and apparently are out of touch with reality and good sense.
“These decisions are just more proof they have no clue.
“The Government could start by getting rid of the AAT from this process and leaving the final decision with the Minister.
“And both sides of politics might think more carefully before appointing their political mates to the AAT and other bodies.”
