Australia’s low-deportation policy: A crime against Australians
At least 27 serious foreign criminals, including a British prostitute who murdered her baby, a Tongan paedophile who molested his daughter, and an Iraqi refugee who raped a vulnerable woman in his removalist van, have been allowed to stay in Australia since Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke cancelled the visa of nationalist activist Matthew Gruter for his political opinion, which many would say was correct.
Gruter protested to “abolish the Jewish lobby” outside New South Wales parliament, but has since left the country, after the home affairs minister cancelled his visa.
The South African national had his visa revoked last month after he was photographed at the front of a rally organised by the National Socialist Network (NSN).
Gruter, who has no criminal record and faces no criminal charges, was raided by armed Australian Border Force officers at 4am on November 18, just six hours after Mr Burke ordered his deportation as part of a federal and state government and police crackdown on the National Socialist Network following a peaceful police-approved protest against Jewish lobby influence. He flew back to South Africa with his wife and newborn baby earlier this month.
For the 2024-2025 financial year (ending June 2025), Australia’s net overseas migration was 306,000, or 6,924 per week.
It has been well established by the Labor Party that a migrant has to commit a horrendous crime before he is deported. Below are a few examples of migrants who committed crimes in Australia but were not sent home.
Yet Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has since cancelled the visa of another man, a 43-year-old UK national permanent resident with an Australian wife and teenage son, over his alleged right-wing views after he was charged by the Australian Federal Police for allegedly “espousing pro-Nazi ideology” on X and owning swords with “swastika symbology. The allegations have not been tested in court since he was sent to immigration detention before he could appear in January as scheduled, and his wife insists he is not an extremist and says he suffers from PTSD as a result of a youth gang attack.
During the same period, the Administrative Review Tribunal of Australia either restored or granted visas to dozens of immigrants who are convicted criminals on the basis of the Labor government’s Ministerial Direction 110, which was put in place by Mr Burke’s predecessor Andrew Giles in July 2024 but has been maintained ever since by Mr Burke despite the policy regularly allowing criminals to stay in Australia because of their young children having been born in Australia.
The 27 cases identified by Noticer News are only those decided by the tribunal, leaving the true number of immigrants allowed to stay in Australia unknown despite criminal convictions, either through unpublicised and unchallenged ministerial interventions or because they were given non-custodial sentences or jail terms of less than 12 months by the courts.
These are the heinous foreign criminals who have avoided deportation in just the last five-and-a-half weeks, and the reasons they were allowed to stay.
Here are five of those 27 who should have been deported:
November 18
Afghan refugee and mother Sakina Muhammad Jan was jailed for one year for forcing her daughter to marry a Muslim man who since murdered her. He was given an extra two-year community corrections order despite refusing to sign it after sentencing while claiming she “didn’t do anything wrong”.
Assessed as little to no likelihood of re-offending because all of her other children are already married.
She was allowed to remain because her entire family now lives in Australia, and “her life story is marked by tragedy and suffering”.
November 19
Schizophrenic Afghan-born domestic violence offender Seyed Koohpayeh, who came to Australia with a fake Iranian birth certificate and has a “substantial criminal record” for violence, drugs, arson, attacking police and driving offences avoided jail multiple times before finally being imprisoned for 12 months.
No formal risk assessment was made about his likelihood of re-offending, but the tribunal found there was “some ongoing risk”.
Allowed to stay because he “has the capacity and intention to return to a stable and productive life in Australia, and that removal from Australia carries some potential for interruption to his present comparative stability”.
November 20
Sri-Lankan born UK national William Terance Murrell convicted of shooting his son-in-law with an illegal firearm and jailed for seven years and six months.
Assessed as a low to medium risk of re-offending.
Allowed to stay because he’s needed to care for his family members.
November 21
British prostitute, anonymised as HZYX, who was charged with the murder and attempted murder of her ten-month-old son in 2023. The charges were found proven but she was found not to be criminally responsible for her actions due to a mental illness, and detained at a forensic hospital.
Assessed as being a low to moderate risk of re-offending by a forensic psychiatrist in August 2024, but the tribunal found she presented “little risk” to the community.
Allowed to stay because deporting her to to UK would be a mental health risk due to her being in proximity to an area where she claims to have been sexually abused, and because she has a partner and supportive friends in Australia.
November 21
New Zealander Mcalize Walding, jailed for 18 months for a violent service station robbery and car thefts, has a long history of drug and violence offences, violated a domestic violence order, and carried out an assault while in immigration detention.
Assessed as a low to moderate risk of re-offending.
Allowed to stay because of his relationships with his nieces and nephews, his ties to Australia including working and paying tax, and because he “does not wish to return to New Zealand and may experience some emotional and financial difficulties initially if removed from Australia to New Zealand”.