Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm glad you explained that to me. On that basis, I think it's a good move by the government to combine the sentences together, because they are re-offenders. I've also been told that, if the court system know that that person could be deported because of a jail term of 12 months or more, they give a lenient sentence of 11 months so they can't be deported by the minister. That is what I have personally been told, so, if this bill does what you've just said, which is that combined sentences added together are going to give the minister the ability to look at deporting these re-offenders from Australia, it will be a good thing for the Australian people.