Editorial: No justification for Australia s appalling 501 deportations
16 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta on the 15-year-old deported from Australia. Video / Mark Mitchell
NZ Herald
EDITORIAL Despite our many common causes and shared endeavours, the much-vaunted Anzac relationship has been sorely tested, most notedly in recent times by the deportations of New Zealand-born criminals under Australia s notorious Section 501 of its Migration Act.
Behind the oft acclaimed transtasman camaraderie, there is a long history of appalling abuse. Exactly 100 years ago, in 1921, Australia banned New Zealand apples because of claims that fire blight, a disease that attacks apple and pear trees and rose bushes, could spread.