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A remorseless serial rapist who ­attacked 25 women and a child kept his visa as a result of Andrew Giles's catastrophic push to give more leniency to foreign-born criminals with ties to Australia, as it was revealed the embattled Immigration Minister was warned his policy would lead to a huge rise in offenders successfully beating deportation. ~The Australian can reveal a man who had “some of the worst child abuse material in the world”, a rapist who molested four children and a criminal who laundered more than $5m also kept their visas as a by-product of Mr Giles’s Direction 99. ~As Labor was consumed on Tuesday by revelations of offenders who kept their visas as a result of Mr Giles’s direction, the minister declared he would prioritise a possible appeal of cancelled criminal deportations months after they were first overturned and days after the cases were uncovered by The Australian. ~But Senate estimates late on Tuesday night uncovered a study by Mr Giles’s own department that estimated 25% of foreign-born criminals could overturn their visa cancellations under ­Direction 99. ~The study considered 10 cases that had been determined under the previous Direction 90, eight of which had ended in the visa ­cancellations being affirmed and two in which the cancellation was revoked. ~Under the exercise, Home Affairs found that two of the eight cancellations would be revoked under Direction 99. In a new case uncovered by The Australian, British-born masseur and rapist Charles William Davidson in February had the cancellation of his visa ­revoked despite having been convicted of eight counts of rape, 48 counts of sexual assault, and three counts of ­indecent treatment of children under 16. The sentencing judge said the serial rapist had demonstrated “absolutely no remorse whatsoever”. “In fact, during your evidence, you took every opportunity to ­gratuitously attack the character of some of the complainant women,” the judge said during sentencing. “Your evidence was quite obviously rejected by the jury, and understandably so. It was rife with inherent implausibility, inconsistency, and appeared frequently to be – to consist of recent fabrication.” In an earlier unsuccessful ­appeal by Davidson against his conviction and sentence, Queensland’s Supreme Court noted that the trial judge had factored the likelihood that Davidson would be deported upon his release from prison into his decision to grant him an earlier parole date. That deportation however was cancelled after the AAT ruled that a “very heavy level of weight” should be given to the strength of Davidson’s ties to Australia. Although Davidson was born in Scotland, he had moved to Australia at the age of five. #RhiannonDown & #PaulGarvey https://t.co/sWiqX1BPHw

"Bob Carr slams Aust’s record immigration intake- “I’ve been trying to get Aust to understand we do not need to have the highest rate of Immig,in proportion to our pop'n,in the world” He compared Aus Immig rates as “third-world” &said“we don’t need it”" https://t.co/ReDl3vPYAQ