First refugees from Nauru to be resettled in New Zealand arrive nine years after deal offered
by Ben Doherty and Tess McClure from World news | The Guardian on (#6635K)
Six men who had been held in Australia's offshore processing facilities for more than eight years arrive in Auckland
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The first six refugees to be resettled in New Zealand from Australia's offshore processing regime on Nauru have landed in Auckland.
The flight follows a resettlement deal first offered by New Zealand nine years - and three prime ministers - ago when it proposed taking 150 refugees from Australia's offshore centres every year.
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