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Tim Dower: I don't have high hopes for the PM's meeting with Albanese
We don't need to revisit the injustice of Australia's 501 deportation policy - and how destructive it's been on this side of the Tasman.
It's eight years now since the deportations began, it applies to any foreign citizen who gets a jail sentence of a year or more.
The vast majority have been New Zealanders, well into the thousands now - and of course Australia's not just deporting the people, it's deporting the crime they commit.
Our police attribute more than criminal 8000 offences to 501s so far including violence, drugs, dishonesty and even sexual crimes.
And that’s to say nothing of the…
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