Pelican

Agree.

Someone who has lived their life here is responsible for their actions here.

Labor no different to Liberals on this and many other issues.

Oh the irony! Deporting a criminal back to the UK..LOL...No, what the government is trying to say is, " if your not valid Australian member, and you play up/break the LAW!... WE WILL THROW YOU OUT" and its about time Australia realizes, it has to be strong on all, thats in our best interests.

"This man is our problem, not Britain's"......Oh the irony again:)...but you had your chance bud! Oh and P/S.....from the circumstances for how and why you were deported.....you! 'are without doubt....the worst criminal, I have ever seen!

Enjoy your one-way ticket:).....coz you earnt it:)

LEAP

So have I got this straight?

He was deported because he has committed crimes in Australia, and is not an Australian national.

So now we can expect - no, let's not stand on ceremony, we must demand - that we automatically deport anyone who is convicted of a crime, and who does not have an Australian passport.

That's a huge step in the right direction.

And of course, it makes so much more sense if we do it at the time they are tried, rather than have to wait until they take an overseas holiday, doesn't it? Who knows how long we might have to wait? Some of them might not even be able to afford a trip to Bali.

We're just too soft on these people. Heck, we don't even use the cane on foreigners like they do in Malaysia.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/301110

Smart fella, Johnny Malay.

In fact, while we are about it, why not simply deport everyone who hasn't become a citizen by, say, next Wednesday? They've had their chance, and they blew it. We don't want their sort here.

There, that's better.

Pass me my nerve tonic, nurse - yes, that one with the label saying Bundaberg. And fetch my rattan cane, will you, I have some work to do.

By the way, <flex, flex> do you have your passport on you...?

Pericles........lol.......Yes I do!...do you?......(passport:)

LEA

40 years in the country and couldn't be bothered to take out Australian citizenship(luckily for us). Why did it take so long,that's the real scandal, he should have been given the boot years ago.

There's some indignant noises by British commenters re the deportation on the BBC website,you can guess the tone.

There are two issues here (besides the legal one). The first is, does Tucker have a moral entitlement to stay; the second, do we have a moral entitlement to deport him. The answer to the second is clear; no we don't. We have no business deporting the failures of our own institutions elsewhere; or exporting problems we have created. What has the UK done to deserve this?

And while I'm at it, taking delight in the punishment of criminals is an unpleasant vice.