Low tolerance of criminal conduct: a factual finding?

Federal Court. In deciding under s 501CA(4) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) not to revoke the mandatory cancellation of the Applicant's visa, the Minister found that "Australia has a low tolerance of criminal conduct for people…who have been participating in, and contributing to, the community only for a short period". Should that finding "be understood as a concrete factual finding reflective of some impossible synthesis or amalgamation of the views held collectively by the Australian community"?

The Federal Court answered that question as follows:

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