Peters said the trans-Tasman relationship had been strained by the Albanese government’s adoption of a new immigration rule – known as direction 110 – designed to give administrative review officials more leeway to deport foreign criminals.
Peters said New Zealanders with little connection to their birth country, including those who had spent most of their lives in Australia, should not be deported in a bid to ease Labor’s political problems with immigration……
…The federal government scrapped the previous “direction 99” after it was blamed for allowing dozens of convicted criminals to be released into the community rather than returned to their country of citizenship.
Peters said Australia had been a “massive beneficiary of New Zealand’s education and skills system”, arguing that New Zealanders were the highest-earning immigrants in Australia.
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