Double counting?

Federal Court. AAT was required to consider under s 501CA(4) whether to revoke the mandatory cancellation of the judicial review time extension Applicant's visa and to take into account the protection of the Australian community, as mandated by Direction 79. Para 14.1 of that direction required decision makers to consider the "impact of a decision not to revoke on members of the Australian community, including victims of the non-citizen's criminal behaviour". Did the AAT engage in impermissible double counting when it considered the effect of the Applicant's offending both in the context of the protection of the Australian community and in the context of the impact on the victims of the Applicant's offending?

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