Prime Minister Jacinda Arden does not waste time in doing what is right as she called out Australia for cancelling the citizenship of a women held in turkey for allegedly having links to the Islamic state.
There was a report from Turkey stating that they had captures 3 New Zealanders, 2 children and 26 year old Australian women allegedly to be a member of the Islamic state making an attempt to enter Turkey illegally from Syria. The women had had dual citizenship in New Zealand as Australia but the Australian government cancelled her citizenship because of this allegation.
Prime Minister Arden did not mince her words when she spoke about the abdication of responsibilities by the Australian government when it came to the detained female who had live in Australia since the age of 6, by doing so they had also forced New Zealand to take responsibility of the woman. Prime Minister Arden went on to state that “New Zealand, frankly, is tired of having Australia exporting its problems, “If the shoe were on the other foot we would take responsibility, that would be the right thing to do and I ask Australia to do the same.”
The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison made the statement in return saying that “My job is Australia’s interests. That’s my job. And it’s my job as the Australian Prime Minister to put Australia’s national security interests first. I think all Australians would agree with that.” Prime Minister Morrison is set to speak to Prime Minister Arden regarding the citizenship cancellation as well as if the terrorism risk were to arise then both citizenships to be cancelled immodestly.
The woman’s case has been known to Australian and New Zealand authorities for some time. Ardern said that after Australia stripped her of her citizenship, she told Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison that the decision was wrong. “I never believed the right response was to simply have a race to revoke people’s citizenships … they did not act in good faith,” she said. Ardern said her government has an obligation to its citizens regardless of the circumstances or offences committed, and that decisions would be driven by the fact that two small children “who did not make the choice of being born in a war zone” were involved.
