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Green Party foreign affairs spokeswoman Golriz Ghahraman says Australia has become a “rogue state” that New Zealand should complain about to the UN.
Your comments come later Things revealed that a 15-year-old boy was deported under Australia’s controversial 501 policy, which sees the country deport non-citizens who fail a “test of character”, even if they have spent most of their lives as Australian residents.
Ghahraman said it was an “alarming escalation” in Australian politics.
“Now we know that they are willing to make a child essentially an orphan,” Ghahraman said.
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“It appears that he does not have strong family and cultural ties to New Zealand. Because we know that Oranga Tamariki is on call to take it.
“It seems that he is now homeless, but stranded in a country with which he has no ties. It’s incredibly traumatizing. “
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Golriz Ghahraman said Australia had become a rogue nation in these matters.
Ghahraman said that if any other country in the region was abusing human rights at this level, New Zealand would use its considerable diplomatic power to denounce it in international forums.
He noted that this specific practice had been denounced by the prime minister, Ardern’s Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in Sydney in early 2020, but not in international forums such as the UN.
“It is time to raise it in international forums the way we would if it were a non-Western country going rogue,” Ghahraman said.
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Peter Dutton, Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs, who has referred to the 501 deportees as “garbage.”
“We should be talking about this in our UN forums. We may want to make a complaint. We should use our diplomatic power to ask our friends and allies in the international community to do the same. “
“The deadly integrity of the Australian government fell short of the standard of caring for children’s rights long ago. “
Ghahraman said Australia was an outlier in its hardline immigration and refugee policies and that New Zealand would find allies if it brought the issue to the UN.
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Ardern has called Morrison directly on the matter.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday that she did not yet have enough details to comment on the case.
She has asked officials for a briefing and wants to see the circumstances of the deportation. “At this point, those who need to know should do so,” Ardern said.
Morrison “knows my position” in politics, he said.
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Stuff revealed that a 15-year-old boy was deported under Australia’s controversial 501 policy, which sees the country deport non-citizens who fail a “character test,” even if they have spent most of their lives as Australian residents. .
New Zealand’s left and right governments have complained about the practice, but have admitted that Australia itself can create whatever immigration system it sees fit.
Hundreds of thousands of Kiwis live long-term in Australia without citizenship with permanent residence visas.
The deported child was now in a managed isolation facility.
A spokesperson for Oranga Tamariki did not respond to questions from Thingsbut said in a statement: “Oranga Tamariki has been working extensively with relevant authorities in both Australia and New Zealand to support the arrival of this young man to New Zealand.”
A spokeswoman for the Australian Department of Home Affairs said in a written statement that it did not comment on individual cases.
“A non-citizen visa should be canceled if they are serving a full-time prison sentence for a crime committed in Australia and, at any time, have been sentenced to a period of 12 months or more in prison, regardless of their age or nationality. “.
