Wheelchair bound quadriplegic deported to NZ for "self medicating"

Far out. I'm all for deporting people who bash other people. I'd love to see my psycho nephew deported back to New Zealand. People like him deserve it, having only been here for a short time.

However this case is just outrageous. Turnbull in his visit to New Zealand described the relationship as a "family" one. Alas the example appears to be taken from my family and not the happy state of affairs one thinks of with the word "family" :s

Indeed, the Labor opposition leader there says this isn't how you treat your mates. 

So a 56 year old New Zealander who's been here for 36 years and knows nobody in New Zealand, has been deported after being sentenced to 13 months jail back in 2012 for "self medicating". Apart from the possibility he may have gotten a particularly harsh judge on the day, this was well before the new Abbott laws were written that if you'd gotten 12 months in jail you're automatically deported to NZ. You can't make a law like that retroactive, it's against human rights surely. To punish people for something they did before a law was even written? Come on.

If this is how Australia treats it's friends/"family", then WTF is going on at Nauru?

The 56-year-old New Zealander, who asked to be identified only as "Paul", said the Australian Government "dumped me at Auckland Airport" three weeks ago. 

He has no friends or family here and landed with only $200 and a voucher for a week's accommodation. 

The case is a fresh embarrassment over the treatment of New Zealand-born convicted criminals by Australia. It comes as Prime Minister John Key and his Australian counterpart met in Auckland yesterday when Turnbull described the transtasman neighbours as "family". 

Reacting to the Herald on Sunday story today, Mr Little said it was not how mates treated each other. 

"Malcolm Turnbull yesterday said more consideration would be given to individual circumstances. Labour welcomes the Australian Prime Minister's commitment to put more resources into immigration to speed up the appeal process," Mr Little said. 

"But it is more important that proper consideration is given to individual circumstances at the time visas are revoked, than appeals are processed faster." 

Mr Little said New Zealand was being treated like the poor cousin by Australia. NZ Herald