Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his very important question. There's a silence that's gone across the other side, because some of them might know people within the CFMEU—some of them might even have received money from their CFMEU mates for their campaigns. Any chance of that? No.

So the government's taken a decision—in fact, under the Prime Minister's former role as immigration minister—in December of 2014 to tighten the rules in relation to the way in which we can cancel, on character grounds, the visas of criminals in our country. And we have been able to cancel 4,500 visas of people who are here as noncitizens and who have committed crimes against Australians. I want to update the House, because importantly—listen to this figure—we have now cancelled the visas of 229 outlaw motorcycle gang members. That is great for our country because these people are involved in some very bad activities. They are the biggest distributors of ice, amphetamines and otherwise unlawful substances in our country. They have very definite links—you wouldn't guess who to—

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