15 Jul 2020

Australia deportees second night in New Zealand isolation

From Lately, 10:30 pm on 15 July 2020

Australia has this week resumed its controversial deportation of New Zealanders after a hiatus due to Covid-19. 

Yesterday, 30 deportees arrived in Auckland on a charter flight having been in detention in Australia, and tonight is their second of 14 nights in managed isolation at a central Auckland hotel that's a dedicated facility for the deportees with extra security. 

Tania Sawicki Mead is the director of JustSpeak and she joins Karyn to discuss their new reality. 

Police at the Grand Mecure Hotel in Wellington, which is being used as a managed isolation facility.

Photo: RNZ /Dom Thomas