Australia‘s 501 Deportee Policy
Since 2015, 2300 unlawful non-citizen, native-born New Zealanders, holding temporary visas, with criminal records, have been deported to New Zealand.
It is the result of a revised Migration Act in 2014, to deport non-citizen New Zealanders, as well as other temporary visa holders with criminal records of 12 months incarceration or more. They fail the standard “character test” of acceptable citizens, posing a risk to our society.
These New Zealanders are unlawful non-citizens, holding only temporary visas. This has attracted the ire if New Zealand‘s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, to the point, that an imminent class action against the Australian Government is in progress, on these deportees’ behalf.
Development has potential to do great harm
In response to your article on April 8 2021, on the proposed industrial development at 107 Artillery Road (titled ‘Concern Over CQ Recycling Facility’), I would like readers to know the full reality of the situation.
This development, if it is placed where proposed, has the potential to do great harm to the water catchment of the Fitzroy River.
I am all for progress, but the placement of this industry, with its huge concrete crushing plant and its management of construction and demolition waste, WILL release silica and other toxic chemicals into the water – and the air.