A violent New Zealander, who claimed he was beaten up in Australian detention, is being sent home.
Maueofa Fakauafusi, 25, moved to Australia at age 6 in 1998, but his final plea to remain has been rejected by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Australia.
According to court documents, Fakauafusi started offending at age 10, when he stole $2 from a police officer's wallet.
Since then, he has racked up a list of criminal offences, including aggravated burglary, rioting inside a detention centre and theft of a motor vehicle.
Fakauafusi said in his appeal that he had strong family and community ties to Australia, including a 4-year-old daughter.
But the Tribunal found he should be deported.
"He has not been able to put his own troubled past behind him and to move from his aggressive responses to a position where it could be said that the risk that he poses to the Australian community is at an acceptable level," wrote the tribunal's deputy president S A Forgie.
"His propensity to engage in violence has not been tempered and the risk of his causing serious injury to another person is unacceptable."
Last year, Fakauafusi claimed he was beaten by guards while in detention at Maribynong Immigration Detention Centre.
Born in 1992, Fakauafusi said his biological mother was an alcoholic and a drug addict, and although he was adopted, he never felt accepted.
He returned to New Zealand in January 2009 and took up boxing, but he returned to Australia in February 2012 because he had met an Australian girl of Samoan heritage.
They had a daughter in 2013.
At around the same time, he had a big argument with his partner's stepfather that became violent.
He started taking drugs because he was depressed and needed something to make him forget everything.
Fakauafusi tried again in October 2013 for four or five days to see if he could live in New Zealand, but decided he could not when his daughter was in Australia.