New Zealand's helping bail Australia out of a long running controversy over asylum seekers locked up in offshore detention centres.
In 2013 it introduced a policy preventing anyone arriving by boat ever settling in Australia. Instead the asylum seekers were imprisoned in controversial offshore detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island.
The centres were widely criticised as inhumane and a breach of international law, with allegations of mistreatment and abuse.
Under a deal that has taken years to broker, New Zealand will take 150 refugees a year for three years from Nauru or other make shift detention centre as part of our refugee quota.
Meanwhile Australia is sticking by its border protection policy say the deal does not change anything.
Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi talks to Lisa Owen.
