The Australian reporter who harassed deportees speaks

The Australian network that issued a widely criticized report on 501 deportees responded with the reporter at the center of the storm saying that the kiwis “responded with poison.”

Reporter Jordan Fabris appeared last night on 9 News to say: “It doesn’t seem like many people in New Zealand are happy that this story got out on Monday.”

“It has had half a million views on our Facebook alone and today the New Zealand media noted that I gained access to this border force flight and highlighted some of these criminals that Australia is expelling.”

“Let’s remember here, these people are convicted criminals. The New Zealand government responded with venom to Australia’s deportation process, but their main target was Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton.”

Yesterday, the Herald reported on the local reaction to the controversial report, in which Fabris received extraordinary access to the deportation process by the Australian Border Force, taking the opportunity to place a microphone in front of a deported woman and ask: ” Our country doesn’t love you, are you excited to go home? “

His report also quoted Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton as telling the channel that flights were Australia’s way of “taking out the garbage.”

“We are talking about the most serious offenders here and our country is safer for having deported them,” he said.

The report, and Dutton’s inflammatory comments, were widely criticized in New Zealand.

Aimee Reardon, who works with returnees in her role as the Prisoner Aid and Rehabilitation Society (PARS), told the Herald that returnees already had trouble thinking locals recognized or looked at them, when that wasn’t always the case.

He said the report does not accurately reflect the proportion of New Zealanders who return with relatively minor charges, saying they make up the majority of deportees, and characterized Peter Dutton’s comments as “ignorant”, saying the minister was “misinformed.”

He also said that racism played a role in the way the policy was enforced, and said there were “ulterior motives” at play.

He said his comments would hit the returnees a lot, many of whom already needed advice to “see themselves as people” again.

He said he has spoken to a returnee who was “really upset” after seeing the report and worried that his family in Australia might see it and it could affect the perceptions of people in his new community.

New Zealand politicians lash out at

Yesterday New Zealand politicians fiercely responded to Australia’s “deplorable” deportation policy and Dutton’s comments.

Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said Dutton’s comments “only serve to destroy his own reputation.”

“I think they should reflect on how they are portraying the movement of people to New Zealand. Dutton’s comments reflect his own personality.”

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins also criticized the comments and the Australian deportation policy in general, which is not reciprocated by New Zealand.

“This is Australia exporting its garbage to New Zealand.

“These people, their criminal offense has been in Australia.

“For all intents and purposes, many have lived most of their lives in Australia.

“This is a deplorable move by the Australian government and we completely disagree with it, yet they have the right to do so.”

When asked if he had inferred kiwis as “garbage” himself, Hipkins said that was not his intention and that he should have “chosen better words.”

“I didn’t mean to suggest that, that’s the way Dutton describes it.”

His ministers’ comments were completely different from the moderate tone adopted by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who refused to be carried away by an “eye for an eye” when asked about the issue.

“Everyone is aware of our opinion on this and it is firmly held. The Australian government is within its rights, it just so happens that we do not agree,” he told reporters.

“I’m not going into an eye for an eye.”

Earlier, National Leader Judith Collins called for retaliation for New Zealand to start sending Australian criminals there.

“We cannot be the dumping ground for all the bad that has happened in Australia with people and criminal behavior,” he told 1News.

“They need some of them to come back.”

He also said that the relationship between New Zealand and Australia at the government level was probably the “worst” in many years.

However, Ardern refuted this, saying that despite constantly voicing opposition to the Australian deportation policy, “it has not changed the fact that we have a very strong relationship.”

“There has been no breakdown in our relationship at all. We have an excellent relationship with our counterparts, Scott Morrison and I speak frequently and work together often, it just so happens that we totally disagree on this issue.”