Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. It is great to see the hard work he is doing up on the Sunshine Coast and integrity restored into the position of member for Fairfax; well done.

One of the great achievements of this government is that we are working with the state police authorities, the intelligence agencies and the crime commissions. We are identifying criminals who are here on visas—so noncitizens—who are out in the community, they are people who are committing crimes, and we are cancelling their visas at a record number. We are making the Australian community a safer place. We want to do that for families. We want people to be able to raise families and live in our community and to do it in a safe way.

I am proud of the fact that we have now cancelled a total of 115 visas of noncitizens who are members or associates of outlaw motorcycle gangs. Why is that important? It is important because we know that the OMCG members are the biggest distributors of amphetamines in the country. They are involved in extortion, they are involved in armed robberies and they are involved in every sort of criminal activity—

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