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For decades Australians and New Zealanders have had the right to live and work in each other's country - but those rights have now been curtailed by Australia. Thousands of New Zealanders are being deported from Australia, some with criminal convictions, but others on the grounds of 'bad character'. The New Zealand government claims the policy breaches human rights conventions. Once the closest of neighbours, the special bond between Australia and New Zealand appears to be fracturing.
As the title says, the last episode of Our World visited Australia and New Zealand. A unique brotherly relationship in the same vein as my country and Denmark. I worked and lived in Denmark from 1997-2007 and after watching and have learnt some of the fates in programme, I´m quite shocked. If I was having a minor traffic offence as I have had a few times driving to fast, the first thought of mine would not be that of being deported back to Sweden.
The action against those with a bad character and putting them in jail, waiting for deportation seems rather non-western way to handle things. Most of the deported came to Australia while they were kids, living all their life and had their own kids, and then Australia just kick them back to NZ separating them from the children? By this Australia is breaking the UN convention on the rights of the child.
This is the first time I have heard of the home affairs minisiter Peter Dutton. A man that has so much power he can deport people on character grounds alone, even if no crime has been commited. What is this?? How can he still have this job?
To aussies in here, I would like to know your opinion about this matter, because there is something really rotten going on.
Peter Dutton
For decades Australians and New Zealanders have had the right to live and work in each other's country - but those rights have now been curtailed by Australia. Thousands of New Zealanders are being deported from Australia, some with criminal convictions, but others on the grounds of 'bad character'. The New Zealand government claims the policy breaches human rights conventions. Once the closest of neighbours, the special bond between Australia and New Zealand appears to be fracturing.
As the title says, the last episode of Our World visited Australia and New Zealand. A unique brotherly relationship in the same vein as my country and Denmark. I worked and lived in Denmark from 1997-2007 and after watching and have learnt some of the fates in programme, I´m quite shocked. If I was having a minor traffic offence as I have had a few times driving to fast, the first thought of mine would not be that of being deported back to Sweden.
The action against those with a bad character and putting them in jail, waiting for deportation seems rather non-western way to handle things. Most of the deported came to Australia while they were kids, living all their life and had their own kids, and then Australia just kick them back to NZ separating them from the children? By this Australia is breaking the UN convention on the rights of the child.
This is the first time I have heard of the home affairs minisiter Peter Dutton. A man that has so much power he can deport people on character grounds alone, even if no crime has been commited. What is this?? How can he still have this job?
To aussies in here, I would like to know your opinion about this matter, because there is something really rotten going on.
Peter Dutton