N.Z. man to be deported

Press, 27 November 1982, Page 6

N.Z. man to be deported

NZPA Sydney '' : A deportation order against di prisoners’ rights i activist, Brett Collins, would . not;, be stayed pending- an appeal, the Chief Judge of the Australian 7 Federal Court, Sir..--Nigel Bowen, decided yesterday in Sydney. Collins’ wife, Patricia. Irina Dunn, gave evidence that police were seeking Collins to deport him - to Zealand: She said she did not know where, he was ■ and admitted that Collins had arranged this. - <? . • Collins has -appealed to a Full Bench of the WefaF' Court against a, decision., by Mr Justice Davies in the Administrative c Appeals

decision by the Immigration Minister, Mr John Hodges, not to interfere) with the deportation order signed by the previous Minister, Mr lan MacPhee, on July 4, 1980. ■ iLast week, a Federal Court Full Bench dismissed an appeal by Collins against Mr Hodges’s decision tQ?allow the deportation prdef? ( td stand and refused to grantcar: ..stay of the order. This left . Collins liable to immediate deportation: " ' “ ' -5 .: Collins did not appear in the Federal Court yesterday.’ Miss Dunn joined in/the application’as an: aggrieved; party. , i V She told her counsel,-Mr Stuart Littlemore, that her:

flight to New Zealand. - 'i Collins would be “totally disadvantaged” if he could not be in Australia to help prepare his.appeal, she.said. ;::. ; :A -barrister for the Immi-gration-Minister, Mrs Priscilla Flemming, suggested to Miss Dunn that/Collins was. ?? in: hiding. ; >■' JS, Miss Dunn said that she £‘*wqipld not like- to" put that I construction on it” < Coilins was officially, on Kleive. She did not know /■ Where , he was it was by his arrangement Mr .Littlemore told the Chief Judge/that the; public interest"'did-hot require a

hasty deportation. Collins ; was 'no threat to the community. he was a married ? man and in constant employament. Mrs Flemming said it was ’ ludicrous to suggest that a deportation would be hasty. .. .in view of the long history of - legal challenges by Collins id , the deportation order. ■ His Honour said that Collins and Miss Dunn had "to /show there/was a' reasonable prospect of their appeal's succeeding..He dis- ' missed - their applicatiorifor. •_a stay. v ( The deportation .order was //issued’.: after / Collins ■ had ..served: more than nine years ..bf/mIT-year jail sentence 1 for arriied robbery" arid assault. ...?. ? Earlier report, page; 14 .