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Coleman denies double standard over deportation direction

Coleman is being interrogated about his actions as immigration minister relating to direction 79, which was cited by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in a number of cases" to justify allowing those with criminal convictions remain in Australia.

I'm not familiar with the specific examples.

I don't agree at all. I made it stronger. That's the decision I made. The decision that Andrew Giles made was, how do we ensure that people who would otherwise go back to New Zealand get to stay in Australia? That was a shameful decision and that's why he sought to reverse it in direction 110. But he still kept the connection to the Australian community as a primary consideration, which is the whole problem with direction 99 in the first place. These guys have no idea how to manage the immigration system. That's why we have seen such terrible results.

I'm very comfortable. We have to cut immigration.