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Dealings with migrants over Covid taints our international reputation

OPINION: If we want to avoid a future Dawn Raids-like apology, we need to sort immigration now.

Brigitte Morten Wed, 06 Oct 2021

New Zealanders have built our identity on our international reputation. Anzac, 1981 Springbok tour, nuclear testing in the Pacific, and the All Blacks.

But our treatment of migrants during Covid has damaged our good reputation.

In early 2020, almost every country closed their borders in some

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