Australian Government to Deny Passports To Over 20,000 Convicted Pedophiles

The Australian Government has revealed that convicted paedophiles would be denied passports in a bid to guard children from beast abused outside its country.

The proposal, below a "world-first" plot proposed by the meting out, will be introduced to the parliament soon and would prohibit registered sex offenders from traveling overseas.

BBC bank account that the Justice Minister Michael Keenan said it would play a part roughly 20,000 offenders who had completed punishments but remained asleep monitoring by authorities.

'Sex offenders would be skillful to apply for passports if they were no longer in relation to the register. No country has ever taken such decisive and hermetically sealed do its stuff to cease its citizens from going overseas, often to vulnerable countries, to abuse children,' Mr. Keenan said.

He described child sex tourism as an "absolutely abhorrent crime".


According to the Australian processing, nearly 3,200 sex offenders would never be eligible for passports because they were being monitored for activity.


The proposal was reached back independent Senator Derryn Hinch, long era liberal for tougher laws to agreement behind sex offenders.


Mr. Hinch told reporters upon Tuesday that the proposal would protect children.

'You ensue Bali, you mass Phnom Penh, you ensue Siem Reap, and you see these center-aged Australian men there, Caucasian men, gone a juvenile local kid - they are not there to arbitration a suntan,' He said.

The behave comes after an Australian man identified as Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis was in 2016 convicted of sexually abusing 11 girls in Indonesia and jailed for 15 years.