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A Rotorua district councillor has expressed concern about children growing up in motels next door to gang members and Australia's 501 deportees.
Rotorua Lakes councillor Merepeka Raukawa-Tait.
Source: Local Democracy Reporting
By Felix Desmarais, Local Democracy Reporter
Rotorua Lakes councillor Merepeka Raukawa-Tait made the comments at a council Strategy, Policy and Finance Committee meeting on Thursday as part of discussions surrounding a draft council plan to address community safety.
So-called 501 deportees are criminal New Zealand citizens deported from Australia.
They are named for the section of the Australian Immigration Act that allowed visas to be stripped from New Zealand residents who had disqualified themselves on "character" grounds.