21 Dec 2022

Drug dealer 501 deportee wins court case

From Checkpoint, 5:17 pm on 21 December 2022

A former drug dealer who was deported from Australia as a 501 has won a court case that has opened the floodgates for others to seek justice. The man, who had name suppression, represented himself in the High Court arguing he should not have been labelled a returning prisoner, which resulted in him being told where to live and having to give police his fingerprints. Other deportees were now lining up in the hope they too could be removed from the parole-like regime. Amy Williams filed this report.