The former Coalition minister cancelled a man’s visa without reading his personal pleas to stay. A court says that was unfair, but Labor disagrees
In 2021, former immigration minister Alex Hawke decided not to reinstate the visa of Joseph McQueen due to his drug convictions.In 2021, former immigration minister Alex Hawke decided not to reinstate the visa of Joseph McQueen due to his drug convictions.n 14 April 2021 the then immigration minister, Alex Hawke, decided not to reinstate the visa of a father of seven and grandfather of three – who had spent 22 years in Australia – due to the man’s drug convictions.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundupthrough a photo showing a signed page in a two-ring binder marked with “sign here” stickers sitting in an unidentified person’s lap by a steering wheel. Letting the precedent stand would “consign the minister to a legal obligation to read every word on every page of every document”.
The submission doesn’t quite spell it out, but in describing this as a matter of “general significance” for the exercise of the God-like personal powers in the Migration Act, you can hear a note of alarm: the dozens to hundreds of cases lodged against the immigration minister every year should not become any harder to win.
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