Catchwords:

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – MIGRATION – where the respondent’s protection visa was cancelled by a delegate of the Minister following his criminal convictions in 2017 – where the (now repealed) Administrative Appeals Tribunal (the Tribunal) revoked the cancellation in 2013 – where the appellant overrode the Tribunal’s decision and cancelled the respondent’s visa pursuant to s 501BA of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) almost a year after the Tribunal’s decision and the respondent’s release from detention – whether the appellant engaged in irrational reasoning in deciding that it was in the national interest to cancel the respondent’s visa