The path is clear for a Perth-based Indian doctor convicted of sexually assaulting a patient to seek a return to practising medicine.
Suhail Ahmad Khan Durani has been successful in his bid to overturn a ministerial decision to deport him after he served more than 18 months in jail for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman while examining her at Royal Perth Hospital in 2010.
In May last year, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal ruled the 38-year-old could keep his permanent residency despite his jail term.
But former immigration minister Tony Burke overruled that decision the day before September’s federal election – with the government in caretaker mode – and Dr Durani was placed in immigration detention.