The obvious thing is the economy. There are plenty of kiwis in Aus who would prefer to be in NZ, but they could never get ahead here financially. Every week was just a struggle to survive.
By moving to Australia, many people have doubled, even quadrupled their salaries.
Have a look at the Waltzing Maori special on 60 minutes (on the tv3 website). An estimated one in five Maori now live in Australia, with numbers expected to rise to one in three in the not-too-distant future.
The question I would want to know the answer to is: Had they stayed here, what opportunities would they be looking at? What skills did they have the day they left? How might they have been usd here? Who would have employed them and how much would they have been paid? I have no doubt Australia provides more opportunity for many people. Is the gap here due to our remote location? Our policies being too hostile to workers? Our policies being to hostle to business? What? The difference is critical.
I ask that question because some indicators point to the policies we have now having made it harder for workers to gt training and good jobs. Would making these policies even more extreme, by implementing the no-questions 90-days sacking thing National advocates make it better? Or worse? Are people fleeing our economy for one less hostile to workers? Or are they just fleeing? My daughter's illegally low wage at a crap job says many are fleeing low-wage, nothing jobs here for opportunity in OZ.
Manufacturing jobs typically provide btter wages, but our economy is now hostile to actually making things here....We are poor in resources locally, far from major markets, have a small domestic market. All reasons we implemented tariffs decades ago to provide for ourselves - jobs, skills and goods. Mabe we are rediscovering why that was necessary then. Our positionin the world may require "special handling". We may not be able to survive Large economy policy approaches. Just wondering.
I say we may not survive those approaches because with our small population we are spread thin and lack depth. When an industry shuts a few factories here, it's not reduced, it's GONE and won't come back while present conditions prevail. I see a sinking lid on conomic diversity here. Opportunities will gradually narrow and we'll al be wondering why...when the answer is somewhat obvious if people can put aside the religious side of economic orthodoxy and see things pragmatically.
its about time new zealand sold itself to australia for $1.
think about this. if nuclear war was waged on new zealand and everyone died, then, they wouldnt migrate. think people... iran, are you reading this?
kagoshimaenglish 3 years ago
The numbers mean nothing without knowing who is leaving and why.
linuxluver 3 years ago
Plenty of reasons are on NZ Herald.
cybersphere 3 years ago
Thanks.
linuxluver 3 years ago
The obvious thing is the economy. There are plenty of kiwis in Aus who would prefer to be in NZ, but they could never get ahead here financially. Every week was just a struggle to survive.
By moving to Australia, many people have doubled, even quadrupled their salaries.
Have a look at the Waltzing Maori special on 60 minutes (on the tv3 website). An estimated one in five Maori now live in Australia, with numbers expected to rise to one in three in the not-too-distant future.
cybersphere 3 years ago
The question I would want to know the answer to is: Had they stayed here, what opportunities would they be looking at? What skills did they have the day they left? How might they have been usd here? Who would have employed them and how much would they have been paid? I have no doubt Australia provides more opportunity for many people. Is the gap here due to our remote location? Our policies being too hostile to workers? Our policies being to hostle to business? What? The difference is critical.
linuxluver 3 years ago
I ask that question because some indicators point to the policies we have now having made it harder for workers to gt training and good jobs. Would making these policies even more extreme, by implementing the no-questions 90-days sacking thing National advocates make it better? Or worse? Are people fleeing our economy for one less hostile to workers? Or are they just fleeing? My daughter's illegally low wage at a crap job says many are fleeing low-wage, nothing jobs here for opportunity in OZ.
linuxluver 3 years ago
Manufacturing jobs typically provide btter wages, but our economy is now hostile to actually making things here....We are poor in resources locally, far from major markets, have a small domestic market. All reasons we implemented tariffs decades ago to provide for ourselves - jobs, skills and goods. Mabe we are rediscovering why that was necessary then. Our positionin the world may require "special handling". We may not be able to survive Large economy policy approaches. Just wondering.
linuxluver 3 years ago
I say we may not survive those approaches because with our small population we are spread thin and lack depth. When an industry shuts a few factories here, it's not reduced, it's GONE and won't come back while present conditions prevail. I see a sinking lid on conomic diversity here. Opportunities will gradually narrow and we'll al be wondering why...when the answer is somewhat obvious if people can put aside the religious side of economic orthodoxy and see things pragmatically.
linuxluver 3 years ago
As opportunities narrow, more people will leave to pursue opportunit elsewhere. It's already happening.
linuxluver 3 years ago