Australia asked not to turn New Zealand into penal colony

A Maori leader has demanded that Australia stop deporting violent criminals to New Zealand. Many of them are ?products? of Australian society who have no ties to New Zealand, he argued.

"New Zealand has got to stop being the dumping ground for Australian criminals," Matthew Tukaki, the executive chairman of the country's National Maori Authority, told the Guardian on Monday. "Quite frankly, I don