ONE murderer, eight rapists, 25 child sex offenders and 42 armed robbers are among the hundreds of Kiwi violent criminals New Zealand Prime Minister John Key claims Australia is treating poorly by deporting them back across the Tasman.

After Mr Key attacked Australia’s treatment of Kiwi crims, The Daily Telegraph obtained a frightening list of offences that had prompted 484 New Zealand offenders to be stripped of their visas since Christmas and sent home.

The list differs starkly to Mr Key’s claims Australia was picking and choosing the best Kiwis, and counters repetitive claims in the New Zealand media that Australia was detaining Kiwis on minor crimes.

“There are people who have now spent their entire life in Australia … and it’s … like the Australians saying ‘well we are going to pick and choose. We are going to keep the ones we like and we are going to send back the ones we don’t like’. To a certain degree you have to take the rough with the smooth,” Mr Key told Radio New Zealand yesterday.

“I had a chat with Julie (Bishop) about it and I was pretty blunt. I said there’s a special relationship between New Zealand and Australia and you challenge that, to a degree, when you see New Zealanders being treated in this way.”

More than 170 Kiwis were stripped of their visas for ­assaults and violent crimes, 47 for drug crimes, four for manslaughter and 28 for grievous bodily harm since December 11. There were no minor crimes listed among those deported.

The federal government has so far deported 80 Kiwis in 2015, a sharp jump from the 53 sent packing in 2014, while 184 Kiwis remain in immigration detention centres.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton told Sky News the government was generous with its visa arrangements for Kiwis and did not require visitors from across the Tasman to submit their criminal history.

But he confirmed there had been a “dramatic” increase in child sex offenders coming from New Zealand, and as such, the crackdown was necessary.

“Some people who get to Australia from New Zealand, if they’ve got a criminal history they would be stopped from ever coming in to our country (as they would) if they were coming from Brazil or the US or elsewhere,” Mr Dutton said.

“And if an Australian went to New Zealand and was ­involved in child sex offences or a serious assault … we would ­expect the Australian citizen to have their visa cancelled.”

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