I mean, technically, you're supposed to delete any music purchased music and movies off your electronic devices before passing between countries (well, that used to be the case, dunno if it still is). It's one of those laws rarely, if ever, enforced. According to the article, they searched 500+ devices last year, out of 3.7 million tourist visits to the country.
Mr Brown said the law struck the "delicate balance" between a person's right to privacy and Customs' law enforcement responsibilities.
Try going to Israel.
You are just talking about criminals here, what would be the point of having laws if there are no consequences?.now is the right time to play hardball with them as well. their PM is weak, the one who'll make a coup in a few months is also weak, and their government is weak. what exactly does the australian PM have to fight with? he has no political capital being just another blow in waiting to be discarded for the next.
of course the real answer to this is labour/national think a few hundred lives ruined and some deaths isn't worth a political mud slinging match or economic tit for tat with our closest ally, but just for fun the counter argument could be allowing an increasingly insular and winston peterish nation to increasingly treat 'NZers", not matter how tenuous the connection, like they're no different to the refugees they also mistreat is a very dangerous position to put ourselves in.
if a nation cannot protect it's citizens then it is not a nation. anyone who mistreats the people in your care (in this case even if they're just perceived to be ours) needs to be given a harsh lesson or they will continue to ramp up their transgressions.
Well the article shows that it's not just criminals who are being deported. But even if it where, the whole point of the article is that - regardless whether it's strictly legal - exiling somebody from what is essentially their home country and their family is an absurd response for what in a lot of cases has been some fairly minor offending.You are just talking about criminals here, what would be the point of having laws if there are no consequences?.
Those Ross tweets are insane. Was he drunk? Never seen a politician burn so many Bridges. Oh yes I did.Meanwhile, it's been amusing watching the National party absolutely tear itself apart over the past couple days. This is a pretty spectacular own goal for Bridges, everybody would've completely forgotten about this by now if he'd just let it be.
Yep, exactly.This is a pretty spectacular own goal for Bridges, everybody would've completely forgotten about this by now if he'd just let it be.
I legitimately just went to the NZC website, because reading "Ross has ramped things up again this morning" made me assume something exciting was happening in domestic cricket.Yep, exactly.
Meanwhile, Ross has ramped things up again this morning.