First off this sort of MC gang culture is a new world creation namely USA and any race and/or creed is welcome to it. Therefore equating local Maltese racists with this Maltese man on having adopted Australia’s bad habits for then to be exiled due to those same bad habits by said country is not on is it?

We have Australia to thank for giving this man the education he now has while granted we all make our own bed your confusing the two issues makes no sense at all.

[Daphne – I really don’t understand what point you’re making here. There’s a Maltese chapter of the MC Rebels biker gang, and Alex Vella is very much involved in it. So clearly, it’s a Maltese problem too and the Maltese members acquired their biker gang habit here, in Malta. Alex Vella is not Australian. He is Maltese. He even sounds Maltese. Therefore Australia has every right to chuck him out, and it’s a shame Malta can’t do the same.]

No, they did not deport him. They just retracted his visa. Not ridiculous at all.

@Lolly. Wrong on this one. Racists and xenophobes who use the term ‘wogs’ do not distinguish between trouble-makers and law-abiding integrated citizens.

Anyone from Southern Europe is called a wog – Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, Maltese etc. are called wogs in Australia.

Over time – and following many years of “cultural growing up” (that would take a whole book to explain) the term ‘wog’ has in fact become a term of endearment for many. Especially so after a very successful play which sold out across Australia called “Wogs Out of Work” – produced, directed and acted by wogs, of course.

http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourne_details.php?id=4508#.U6EtTT5–Uk

@ Ken il malti – please read the background before making assumptions.

They did not deport him. He left Australia for a holiday. He has not been convicted of anything. He is under suspicion and has not been charged with any offence. They revoked his visa – no more no less. He has no right of return because he is not a citizen. .

@Chris M.

Australia was a democratic civilised country. No longer the case, I am afraid to say. I reiterate what I said earlier – its current policy on immigration has got absolutely no relationship to democracy or civilisation.

It’s all about ensuring the capture of the racist and xenophobic vote – like yours.

Here is a topical example of where this cruelty has got to: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/family-of-asylum-seeker-leo-seemanpillai-cannot-attend-his-funeral-20140617-zsajw.html.

And it is people with views similar to yours that are driving such positions and cheering the politicians when they take them.

What do you mean by ‘we’? I said people, not you and me. And yes, there are people defending this man and I bet that they want to get him on Xarabank.

Chris M

Malta cannot scrap its signatory. Malta IS a signatory to the convention on human rights – and thank heavens for that, or people like you could be arrested repeatedly, held in a dank, dark cell, hauled up to court on some trumped-up charge and then beaten senseless and left dead under a bridge.

History didn’t begin with your dawning realisation that the world doesn’t revolve around you and your tantrums.

Human rights are non-territorial and indivisible. They are yours even if the law doesn’t recognise them. When the law does recognise human rights – as it does in Malta – it makes no distinction based on creed or colour.

Has it never occurred to you that Malta might be a much better place if people with your mindset were to climb into a boat with Norman Lowell and paddled off to North Africa?

He most probably did enter Australia legally, as a boy with his Australian- immigration officials vetted parents in Valletta, ( along with being medically checked, incl. chest Xrays and police records checked) like thousands of other very legal Maltese migrants in the 1950s and early 1960s.

And once arriving in Australia he along with his siblings and parents, would be given Landed Immigrant status, a slip of paper for each person, adult or child, plus having his parent’s British Subject passport stamped at entry.

The problem was that as a young adult he got in trouble with the law in Australia and he had not taken out Australian citizenship, which he could have after so many years there but for some reason he did not.

Convicted non-citizen criminals can be deported to the nation of their birth after they serve prison time in Australia or just deported right away, all at the discretion of the sentencing judge.

He must have had very good connections in Australia if it took them this long to deport him, as they are usually very prompt to do so, whether he protested or resisted or not.

Better late than never