A New Zealand man was allowed to stay in Australia because his great-grandfather was an Australian aboriginal (Daily Mail photo)
A New Zealand man with a page-long criminal record was supposed to be deported but was allowed to remain in Australia because his great-grandfather was an aboriginal.
According to the Daily Mail, a 35-year-old New Zealand man was removed from Australia for moral reasons and faced deportation and was allowed to remain in Australia after prosecute went to Australia`s Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Tribunal).
The man is believed to have two children with a three-page criminal record, including family violence, assault police and drug-related offences over a period of 10 years.
The man won because he and his two children identified themselves as aborigines in Australia, even though he was born and raised in New Zealand. Men`s parents are also born and living in New Zealand, and identify themselves as Maori. However, more than five generations of men`s grandfathers were aborigines of Australia. His great-grandfather fled from Tata to New Zealand to escape the Holocaust.
The man`s two children were born in Australia, and he and his wife moved to West Australia in 2005. The man`s wife told the tribunal that his two children considered themselves aborigines.
Australia`s administrative appeals tribunal ruled against a man for fear that cancelling a man`s visa could "have a harmful effect on his child`s cultural identity".
"if the children`s indigenous parents return to New Zealand without taking them away, they will lose the advantage of learning indigenous culture from their fathers," the administrative appeals tribunal said. If the children are relocated to New Zealand, they will no longer be part of the aboriginal Australian community. "this will have a negative impact on their active participation in and learning from aboriginal Australian culture and heritage."
