On Thursday night, dozens of deportees are gathering to hear more about it. Prominent human rights lawyer Craig Tuck is involved, as are legal experts in New Zealand and Australia. They don t like the way they were treated, they don t like the way they were strong-armed, they don t like the way they were separated from their children, said Tom Harris of Waitematā Community Law Centre. And they really don t like the way they re sent back here and haven t been in New Zealand since they were children.
A feeling all too familiar for men like Ace. We re not New Zealand s problem, we re Australia s problem. I didn t go to jail in New Zealand, I went to jail in Australia. So maybe if I learnt anything I learnt it in Australia.
Jacinda Ardern and Australian counterpart Scott Morrison debate a corrosive deportation policy in Sydney in February 2020.
It is 2am, and FIlipa Payne receives a phone call. The man on the other end of the line is in Australia s notorious Christmas Island detention centre, awaiting deportation to New Zealand. He is calling to tell her the person in the cell next to him has sewn his mouth shut as part of a hunger strike in a prison that has been described as hell on earth for those detained there. The man feels he cannot share the fact with his family, so he turns to Payne.
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