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Jacinda Ardern says she was kept in the dark over arrival of Manus refugee Behrouz Boochani

New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…

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Jacinda Ardern says she was kept in the dark over arrival of Manus refugee Behrouz Boochani

New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…

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Behrouz Boochani, brutalised but not beaten by Manus, says simply: ‘I did my best’

After six hellish years inside Australia’s offshore detention regime, Boochani reflects on the country that rejected him, his new-found freedom and the friends he left behindSupport our independent journalism with a one-off or recurring contribution“On…

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Behrouz Boochani calls Christchurch welcome a ‘reminder of kindness’

Official reception highlights New Zealand’s differences with Australia over immigrationThe city of Christchurch has welcomed Behrouz Boochani with a civic reception and a traditional Māori mihi whakatau – a formal welcome – as his presence, and liberty…

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‘Designed to torture’: asylum seeker chooses Iranian prison over PNG detention centre

Man who spent nine weeks locked up inside Australian-funded centre in Port Moresby describes hunger, isolation and lack of legal support Ariobarzan endured six years of detention inside and outside the barbed wire on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island in …

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Scott Morrison refuses to intervene for Tamil family facing deportation to Sri Lanka

Prime minister backs Peter Dutton, saying he cannot ‘in good conscience’ allow family that had settled in Biloela to stayThe prime minister says he cannot “in good conscience” allow a Tamil couple and their Australian-born children facing deportation t…

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Tuvalu threatens to exit Australia’s seasonal worker program after deputy PM’s comments

PM Enele Sopoaga responds to Michael McCormack’s belief that Pacific islands will survive climate crisis because they ‘pick our fruit’The prime minister of Tuvalu is considering pulling his country out of Australia’s seasonal worker program, after comm…

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Jacinda Ardern says deportation of Kiwis isn’t ‘fair dinkum’ after Scott Morrison meeting

New Zealand prime minister says deportations are damaging relations with Australia, but Peter Dutton defends policyAustralia’s deportation of criminals with almost no connection to New Zealand isn’t “fair dinkum” and Kiwi prime minister Jacinda Ardern …

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