last April, meaning she would be deported back to South Africa, where she was born, upon release.

He said in his decision she contributed little to the community in the nine months after she arrive din Australia and and cost taxpayers money while in jail.

Creamer appealed her deportation to the Federal Court, saying the minister did not consider her contribution to society while in prison.

'She's doing laundry for the Australian Defence Force,' her lawyer Greg Hughan told the court on Monday.

'There's something that's she's done that's given no weight. The positive contribution gets dragged down.'

Mr Hughan said 'the minister has erred' as the costs of her incarceration were not relevant give her contribution as a prisoner.

'Let's say there was a fire in prison, and one steps forward and savescommunity,' Mr Hill said.

'It is a serious example of defensive homicide.'

Creamer was the first person in Victoria to be convicted of defensive homicide after claiming she killed him in self-defence in an abusive 11-year open marriage.

During her 2011 trial she told the court Mr Creamer constantly harassed her to have sex with other men while he watched and even posted sexually-charged photos of her online to attract partners for her.

He taunted her after sleeping with another woman and they argued over his demands for groups sex, she told the court.

Creamer appealed her deportation to the Federal Court, saying the Immigration Minister Peter Dutton did not consider her contribution to society while in prison

Justice Mark Weinberg, in rejecting an appeal of her sentence, said her crime fell outside the