New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talks with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo / AP
COMMENT: We're as close as any two countries can be, we're family, we're Anzacs having fought and died alongside each other.
Forget the fluff, we're simply two countries that are in relatively close proximity. At least that's what we are now, it wasn't always the case, our citizens up until
the turn of the century were welcome in each other's patch. We could come and go with all the benefits afforded to those living on either side of the ditch whether they were born in Wellsford or Wollongong.
That's been changing and looks set to change even more when it comes to Kiwi lawbreakers on their side of the Tasman. It's easy to say, as many have, that if there are bad buggers breaking the law, then get rid of them.
On the face of it that's fine - provided they went there when they were old enough to know better. It's a different story if they went there as toddlers and learnt all their bad habits there. To send them back when they've never had an association with this country, other than a parent being born here, is obscene.
It's simply Australia abdicating its responsibility.
