The new ugliness is also evident in Australia where members of a very large (hundreds of thousands) helot underclass of New Zealanders denied Australian citizenship and welfare benefits and rights to an advanced education even if they have lived there since babyhood, are regularly deported to NZ if they make trouble.

Australia's Channel 9 ran an unbelievable clip that has caused fury in NZ, implying that all the deportees were serious criminals, and allowing journos doing the government's bidding to harrass them on the tarmac in what Orwell used to call the 'two minute hate', when in reality some are minor offenders or even simply administratively deported on the grounds that some official thinks they are not of good character.

This Guardian story includes the Australian Channel 9 propaganda clip complete with its two minute hate: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/11/nz-politicians-attack-australian-minister-peter-dutton-for-comparing-deportees-to-trash

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton calls it 'taking the trash out'. Interestingly enough, sixty per cent of deportees to NZ are NZers of colour, mostly Māori and Pacific Islanders, and it's pretty much an open secret that along with blocked pathways to citizenship, this is a form of ethnic cleansing, as Australia is now the whitest country in the world and hypervigilant about remaining so, while NZ these days has become hugely multicultural.

New Zealand is the only First World country to wound up on the receiving end of a fascist immigration policy of this sort complete with the two-minute hate) and it is very eye-opening and radicalising; all the more so view of the way that Australia and NZ used to be effectively one country and close allies bound by the ANZAC spirit (WWI Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) and the social-democratic Canberra Pact of 1944 for joint post-WWII reconstruction, but not anymore. The lost peace and the triumph of the fascists, indeed.