Australia agrees 450 refugees can be resettled in New Zealand, nine years after deal first offered

Under the deal 150 refugees a year held on Nauru, or who have come to Australia temporarily, will be eligible for resettlement

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Up to 450 refugees from Australia's regional processing centres will be resettled in New Zealand over the next three years, after the Coalition belatedly took up a long-standing agreement struck more than nine years ago.

Up to 150 refugees a year will be able to go to New Zealand, under the deal announced by Australia's home affairs minister, Karen Andrews, and the New Zealand immigration minister, Kris Faafoi, on Thursday.