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New Zealand condemns Australia for mass deportation of Kiwis John Key, New Zealand’s prime minister, attacks Australia over the detention and deportation of hundreds of New Zealanders under Canberra’s tough new immigration laws  New Zealand’s prime minister John Key Photo: Simon Watts/Getty Images
By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney
2:04PM BST 30 Sep 2015
New Zealand has criticised Australia for detaining and deporting hundreds of New Zealanders under tough new immigration laws, saying it was undermining the historically close ties between the two neighbours.
Following revelations that about 300 New Zealanders had been detained in Australia and faced deportation, John Key, the New Zealand prime minister, accused Canberra of “picking and choosing” which citizens it kept. He said he had been “pretty blunt” with Julie Bishop, Australian foreign minister, during a meeting in New York.
"There's people that have often spent their entire lives now in Australia, they went over there when they were very, very, young,” he told Radio New Zealand.
"It's a bit little bit like the Australians saying, 'well, we're going to pick and choose, we're going to keep the ones we like but we're going to send back the ones we don't like’."
About 200 New Zealanders are believed to be in detention – including some in a remote offshore centre on Christmas Island – following Australia’s decision to allow deportations of all foreign citizens who have served a prison sentence of 12 months or more. About 100 New Zealanders have already been deported.
Referring to the historic bonds between Australian and New Zealand troops, Mr Key said: "There is an Anzac bond and an Anzac spirit... that surely means we might get some treatment that's different from other countries."
New Zealand authorities can deport foreign citizens who commit crimes but the powers have been used sparingly. About 14 Australians have reportedly been deported in the past four years.
New Zealand last week deported a man from the tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati who launched a failed bid to become the world's first climate change refugee. Ioane Teitiota failed to persuade a court in New Zealand that he should be allowed to stay because rising seas around Kiribati threatened him and his family.
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