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Deported convicts find their feet in NZ with help of housing program

Since a change to legislation in 2014, Australia has been sending New Zealand citizens with a criminal record back to a country where many have few ties and no place to call home. Thomas Phillips reports from Auckland on an organisation helping reintegrate deportees. 

Video report by Thomas Phillips
 

 

 

 

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