Ms Ardern prances around on the world stage, demanding that Australia hand over 150 ‘asylum seekers' from the Manus Island facility – essentially rebels remaining on Manus, many of whom are arrogant, aggressive young males being trouble looking for a place to happen.

Australia is falsely accused of human trafficking for dispatching offenders to Manus and the bleating is unbelievable! They're not asylum seekers, simply opportunists paying people smugglers to launch them off the Asian mainland in rust buckets, leaving them to their fate and for Australia to deal with. The people smugglers, the opportunists themselves and the governments that promote this are the culprits.

Aussies should turn the boats around and shoot them straight back to where they came from. Yes it's Australia's problem, not ours and Aussies rightly believe these misfits will get NZ passports then return to Australia. As history shows, NZ is only a stepping stone.

I heard one Manus Island agitator bemoaning that they headed to Australia not simply to end up in a prison. Well, as illegal, uninvited immigrants, what did they expect? It costs Aussies millions and millions of dollars to support these troublemakers so Ms Ardern/Labour Party and Greens need to pull their heads in.

R Paterson, Matapihi.