‘Absolutely devastating’: how Australia’s deportation of New Zealanders is tearing families apart

Their accents, children and homes are in one country, but people jailed for more than 12 months are being sent back to a land they don't know, where everything that made you who you were is gone'

On an overcast day at Brisbane airport in early February, a plain white Airbus 319 with an Australian flag marking on the tail was waiting on the tarmac.

Boarding the aircraft was Taryn O'Dowd, a New Zealand citizen who had lived in Australia for 32 years.