New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has vowed to press Anthony Albanese over Australia's criminal deportations policy when the two leaders sit down for official talks later today in Canberra.
New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he'll raise Australia's criminal deportations policy when he meets Anthony Albanese in Canberra.
Successive governments in Wellington have complained bitterly about the federal government deporting criminals with New Zealand citizenship across the ditch, even when those kicked out of the country have spent most or all of their lives in Australia. The shift stirred frustration in New Zealand's government, with Mr Luxon expressing "regret" at the decision.
New Zealand government figures showed that the number of deportees from Australia dropped sharply in 2023 after the federal government's new "commonsense" approach was applied. Christopher Luxon with Kim Keon See and her husband South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena Zelenska and Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida at the White House in July.
The prime minister said New Zealand's new defence capability plan would be revealed in the "coming months" and that his country would replace and upgrade defence infrastructure, while investing in "new capabilities."
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