Mr Dutton, asked today about a Pakistani asylum-seeker convicted of abusing a teenage boy in Ipswich, said he was now “cancelling visas of criminals at a record rate”.
“I cancelled a 104 visas of paedophiles just in the last 12 or 15 months and we follow these cases very, very closely and if we can cancel visas or deport people I think we put ourselves in a position where we’re going to save future victims,” the minister told Sydney radio 2GB’s Ray Hadley.
“Would David Feeney take the same approach to these things? Would they have the same hard-line approach to criminals who are here that would seek to do us harm? No.”
