Jacinda Ardern and Nanaia Mahuta. (File photo).
Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas
The circumstances around the deportation of the minor - described as complex - are still being kept private, but Mahuta has signalled he is not a 501 deportee.
Australian Department of Home Affairs has outlined a range of circumstances under which someone can be deported, but would not say which one applied to the boy.
He is in managed isolation being supported by two Oranga Tamariki staff onsite.
It is the latest incident to ratchet up trans-Tasman tensions, which the Opposition says have not been so bad since the Muldoon years.
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