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Father-of-three Cory Rewi Randall Bishop has only visited New Zealand once - a short visit during his childhood - since the move to Australia with his parents ...

“I find it highly relevant that at 46 years old, the Applicant has lived in Australia all his life, having first arrived in Australia at the age of 1 and had not returned to the country of his birth, New Zealand with the exception of a brief holiday in 1987,” Pascoe wrote. “The Applicant has a diagnosis of anxiety, and has indicated that should he be released he wishes to receive counselling in relation to his childhood trauma and alcohol abuse,” Pascoe wrote. Both National and Labour governments have spoken out against the policy, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern having previously described it as “corrosive” to the transtasman relationship. The report also notes that Bishop “did not have the best of childhoods”, including a physically and emotionally abusive, alcoholic mother and a father who was “often away at work and was emotionally distant and often physically unavailable”. “He accepted that the suspicions did not justify his offending, and that he should have ‘walked away every time’. Two of them suffer a degenerative neurological disease while the mother suffers a blood-clotting disorder that restricts air travel, she said, explaining that the decreased mobility would make visits to New Zealand to visit their father very difficult. He has since taken domestic violence courses in prison and said he wants to continue counselling, including for alcohol abuse. lead me to conclude that the overall weight is in favour of revocation of the [deportation] decision,” the tribunal decision states. His deportation troubles began shortly after he was sentenced in March 2021 to two years’ prison for one count each of common assault, resisting an officer and stalking or intimidating with intent to cause fear or physical harm, as well as three counts of disobeying a protection order. During a hearing in Sydney last month, Bishop said has always regarded himself as an Australian and did not know he was in Australia under a visa. Father-of-three Cory Rewi Randall Bishop has only visited New Zealand once - a short visit during his childhood - since the move to Australia with his parents when he was still in nappies. His deportation would “ruin the children’s lives”, their mother said.