I could not believe we have people in a position of authority that have so much disregard for the majority of Australians.

Summary of story.
A New Zealand man, is allowed to stay in Australia when he gets out of jail for assaulting a taxi driver, police and his former pregnant partner.

Here comes the good part.
In a newly published judgment, AAT deputy president Robin Handley noted that the man had been drunk, hungover or had lost his temper at the time.

He made the "extraordinarily difficult" decision to let the man stay, ruling that "the risk of future harm should be tolerated by the Australian community for the sake of the best interests of his children".

Beyond belief.
So the person has been convicted of assaulting 3 people, one of which was a pregnant female, so the whole country has to accept QUOTE "the risk of future harm should be tolerated by the Australian community"
for the sake of his children.

With people like this in a position of authority I have grave concerns for the future.

There are 2 cases covered, my comment about the first is easy Australia did not force this person to become a drug addict, so after 6 convictions anyone want to take a bet on when his 7th conviction will come?

Link
http://www.news.com.au/national-news/drug-dealing-immigrant-allowed-to-stay/story-fncynjr2-1226600117609

You have to realize that this person making the decisions is doing so for your good and your welfare. You should not be critical of their inability to make good judgement calls.
Anyway perhaps he was one of those people the NZ Prime Minister sent over here as part of his discovery on how to fix NZ unemployment.
Just like those countless NZ Citizens from the Pacific Islands who will never work because they can't or don't know how or are too fat.
These people are not counted in the imigration intake quotas because of the Australia NZ free movement agreement.

Dear Phillip S,

Justice has nothing to do with the well-being of the public and it never will as long as the most voiced expression in legal circles is "Pass us the gin bottle mate!"

Hasbeen we have touched on this subject often.
O sung wo could add to it, we all can.
No need to highlight the mans country, this type of judgment is standard issue.
People walk free, every single day, after committing crimes most of us would think need prison terms.
Why.
The costs of imprisonment? must play a roll.
The fact that these folk, lower courts and high, are not living in our world, the real one.
In just my lifetime gun crime has become the normal.
Car thefts take multiple convictions before prison terms are used.
In truth our law, its judges at any level, are re making the victims victims again.
Another reason the law is said to be blind is because it is, to the values of those it is meant to protect.

Dear belly,

Why are you addressing your above comment to Hasbeen when he hasn't even posted a comment on this thread at this point in time?

Why don't we just rename "The Forum" to "The Belly-Hasbeen Only Forum"?

Phillip,
I can better you.
what about a covicted non-citizen drug dealer being allowed to stay in Aus because he claimed to have fathered a child here.

Only this morning there was an article about a disallowed asylum seeker being given refugee status because he had an irate husband after him, in iraq, since he was caught having sex with the blokes wife. Our marvelous refugee tribunal.

What can one say?