Jacinda Ardern grandstanding?

[Black Orchid]

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s swipe at Prime Minister Scott Morrison over Australia’s criminal deportation laws has been likened to a rugby maul between the two countries during a Bledisloe Cup match.

Ms Ardern used a media conference on an official visit on Friday, alongside Mr Morrison to deliver a blunt message on the policy, which has seen about 2000 people sent back to New Zealand.

“Australia is well within its rights to deport individuals who break your laws. New Zealand does the same. But we have a simple request - send back Kiwis, genuine Kiwis,” she said.

“I haven’t seen Australia so badly mauled by New Zealand since the last time we played the All Blacks,” Mr Clare quipped during an interview with ABC television on Saturday.

“This was pretty awful stuff.”

But he said he understood Mr Morrison’s argument that if you are a criminal born in another country and you serve jail time in Australia, you should go back to the country that you were born in.

“Regardless of whether that’s New Zealand or whether it is on the other side of the world,” he said.

Liberal backbencher Jason Falinski didn’t think it was the most effective way for Ms Ardern to deliver her message.

“I think there was an amount of political grandstanding involved in what she did,” he told ABC television.

“I don’t think it is helpful either to the relationship for Australia and New Zealand or the policy outcomes that she is seeking to achieve.”

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation ... 1efe7e19d4

I read elsewhere she isn't as popular at home as she is overseas and her constituents are bitterly divided. I'm with Morrison on this and Ardern needs to keep her obvious bias in check. Not long ago she was condemning us for our carbon emissions when she should be concentrating on her own.

[Bobby]

Sky News Australia


If today's news conference with Scott Morrison is any indication, NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern believes all Kiwis, including criminals, should be entitled to “all the benefits” afforded to Australian citizens, according to Sky News host Peta Credlin.

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has criticised Australia's stringent deportation policy, saying the policy is "corrosive" damaging the Trans-Tasman relationship.

Under Australia's deportation policy, anyone who has committed a serious criminal offence will be deported to their country of origin.

Around 2,000 New Zealanders have been deported under the policy.

Ms Credlin said Ms Ardern should know that the Australian government does not make exceptions when it comes to deportation laws – even for our closest cousins.

“What we should never do is let foreign criminals remain here when they have trespassed on our goodwill, and broken our laws,” she said.

Ms Credlin added “I'm not fooled by Jacinda Arden, I doubt you're by Arden either, and if the polls are any true guide, neither it would be appear, are New Zealand voters.”

[billy the kid]

Ardern is a gob on a stick....or should I say a buzzard on a branch....yawn yawn....

[sprintcyclist]

I came to Aussie decades ago and became naturalised long ago.

I strongly dislike those who come here, live here for some time and STILL think where they came from is better.
Leave, go back. Why are you here anyway?

They are not Australians. They have decided that.
I don't want them here.

[brian ross]

Deportation can only occur to those residents who are not citizens of Australia or those that hold dual citizenship. Obviously the clue is become naturalised as quickly as possible and renounce your Kiwi citizenship. The Australian Government would then be unable to deport citizens.