Emigration to Australia accelerates to 121 daily

[cranyonrye]

There's no demand for immigrants here in Australia - don't pay any attention to this video, he is a property investor trying to engineer speculative profits. Australia is spiraling into debt and depression, there is no prospects for skilled migrants here, the economy has collapsed, the bottom has fallen out.

[rcmixed]

immigration means incoming people, emigration is exactly the opposite, people that is leaving.

[moreprofound]

:(

...since the internet was started..

...about 2 billion people around the world, would like to emigrate there, now..

[mooneepondskid]

"Is emigration a real word?"...Yes. It refers to people leaving their native country for another.

In this case its New Zealanders leaving New Zealand to come to Australia.

[ClownFight]

Jeremy Clarkson once said

"No one ever says, Well I have a happy home life, Im rich and I have many friends . . . so Im off. The only reason anyone has for going to live in another country is because theyve cocked everything up in their own.

Everyone you see planting olive groves on those endless new life abroad programmes is inevitably a sad and lonely individual who thinks their homeland is to blame for everything thats gone wrong in their empty, shallow, friend-free lives."

[mulder9813]

I'm amused at NZers thinking that over 20% of people have left the sinking ship is "no problem." Thanks to Ruthanasia its a wate of time for most to work in NZ. I left in 1999 and walked into a job with a big raise, superannuation, paid days off every month...Wake up NZ and match this or kiss good-bye your youth!

[likenlock]

what flew behind him at 0:10 - 0:11???

[likenlock]

wait dw, didn't realise it was fast forward

[davidsghost]

Is emigration a real word? Sorry I am only asking but does he mean immigration? I could be wrong and maybe he does mean emigration, I've never heard of that word before.

[davidsghost]

OK Sorry I should have googled it first; anyway emigration means to "leave" a native country (or the perspective of the native country of someone leaving) and immigration is "coming to" another country and the perspective of a country to recieve someone. Migration is movement within a country. But he says Migration Out which is sort of out of context of the word. But I get it now :)

[linuxluver]

Our policy settings have for some years been set to suppress wage rises. The balance of power rests firmly with employers in many if not most areas. Many industries here are closing down entirely and leaving the country as tariff barriers have been removed. Instead of retraining, perhaps some of these workers are going to Australia where their skills are still needed. It would be interesting to see a detailed picture of who went and why.

[cybersphere]

Hundreds of comments have been left by kiwis who have emigrated to Australia on the NZ Herald site.

NZ is being rapidly drained of its able-bodied productive workforce. The waiting list for a GP in my area is 4 months, and that will probably get much worse as more young Doctors are lured overseas by paychecks NZ can't come close to.

[linuxluver]

I wouldn't want to exaggerate the effect of the flow to Aussie. In my experience it tends to be an over flow rather than a degradation of function here. Occassionally there is a net deficit, but only occasionally. The longer trend has been and will remain a steady inflow of migrants. I'm more concerned about the apparent lack of any conscious population policy. I'd like to see a policy that says "6 million and no more". The idea of NZ becoming an ant hill like Britain is a sad one.

[cybersphere]

In the rural area where I live, the primary labour demand is for people who are willing to work in minimum wage factory jobs. Anyone with anything about School C would be overqualified. Local employers are complaining about the 'poor attitude' of local kiwis, who won't accept pathetic payrates and abusive treatment. Consequently, many workers are being imported from the Phillipines, Tonga and Vanuatu, where people are more willing to be treated like slaves. Any wonder kiwi's are fleeing to Aus?

[linuxluver]

Having recently left Foxton, I know whereof you speak regarding too many small town employers. Not all or even most....but unfortunately, some of the larger ones. My neighbour's son worked on a dairy farm 6am to 8pm and for 14 days without a break....then two days off and back at it. Yes, better than the minimum wage, but needless to say his relationship with his partner fell apart. She never saw him.

[aeronuk1]

"'an ant hill" what do you mean?

[georgewtwat]

As always - very interesting, thanks Bernard -