A New Zealand man with a long criminal history, including committing assaults in Hoppers Crossing and Sanctuary Lakes, will be deported from Australia.
Earlier this month, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal upheld a decision by the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection to cancel the visa of Rangatira Ronaki.
The tribunal heard Ronaki, 28, arrived in Australia at the age of 10 with his family, because his father – who had once been president of a motorcycle gang known as the Filthy Few – wanted to “escape the clutches” of the gang.
The tribunal heard that since the age of 18, Ronaki has appeared in court about 20 times for crimes including unlawful assault, intentionally causing serious injury, possessing a controlled weapon, being present during an aggravated burglary, resisting police and contravening a family violence intervention order.
Ronaki was found guilty of assaulting his then-partner at the Sanctuary Lakes Hotel in May 2015. After he punched and kicked her, the woman was taken to Footscray Hospital with swelling on her face, a cut lip, a black eye, bruised cheek bones and bruising on her neck and arms.
Last year, Ronaki pleaded guilty to assaulting another former partner at a service station in Hoppers Crossing.
The tribunal heard that two witnesses at the fuel outlet contacted triple-0 because they were worried the woman was being kidnapped.
Tribunal senior member Robert Cameron said Ronaki posed “a real and present risk of reoffending”.
“It therefore follows that the Australian community would not expect the applicant to be allowed to remain in Australia,” he said.
