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Migration
The HoS reports: Kiwi expatriates are earning a fortune overseas, and barely one-tenth say they would be comfortable raising a family back home on New Zealand wages. For the first time – according to...
View ArticleA 10 year high for migration
Stuff reports: Migration to New Zealand hit a 10-year high in September, as fewer Kiwis left for Australia and more new migrants arrived, adding more support for the housing market. New Zealand saw a...
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Migration with Australia
The latest migration stats came out yesterday. In terms of NZers leaving to Australia and returning, the recent trend is pretty good. Tags: migration
View ArticleMigrants increase our income
NZIER report: A new Insight from the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) shows that increasing net migration would lift incomes not just for immigrants but for the native population. An...
View ArticleMigration at 10 year high
The Herald reports: New Zealand’s inbound net migration rose to a 10-year high in January as fewer people quit the country to cross the Tasman and the number of new migrants continued to gain. This is...
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Record migration from Australia
Stats NZ released the monthly migration stats today. For the first time ever the annual number of people moving to New Zealand from Australia exceeded 20,000 for the first two months of this year....
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More Kiwis returning home
The number of people migrating from Australia to New Zealand continues to grow. If this trend keeps up, we may end up with a net inflow for the first time in our history. Stats NZ reported: New...
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How will Labour stop Aussies from coming here?
The latest monthly migration stats came out yesterday. This is a graph of migration just between Australia and NZ. The trend is clear. Now Labour has joined NZ First in saying we have too many...
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Annual net migration with Australia falls again
Stats NZ has released the latest monthly migration data and as one can see the net loss to Australia is still shrinking. Labour seem to think this is a bad thing, incidentially! Arrivals from...
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The gap closes with Australia
The latest monthly migration stats are out. It is looking pretty likely that in the next year we will have positive net migration from Australia for the first time ever. But I don’t think it will...
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The gap gets narrower
The July migration data is out. The Australia annual data is fascinating. 22,620 people arrived from Australia in the last year, including 15,050 NZers returning home Two years ago in the year to July...
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Issues that matter – the Economy
I think the economy matters and should be a much bigger issue in this election so I’ve put together almost a dozen graphs showing the difference between National and Labour’s record on 11 important...
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Smallest net migration to Australia since 1995!
Stats NZ reports: “New Zealand had its highest-ever net gain of 43,500 migrants in the August 2014 year,” population statistics project manager Susan Hollows said. “The previous high of 42,500 migrants...
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A 20 year low for migration with Australia
Stats NZ reported: Migrant arrivals (107,200) reached a new high in the October 2014 year. The annual increase was led by more student arrivals, particularly from India, and more New Zealand citizens...
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Fewer NZers leaving than in recent history
The latest monthly migrations stats were out yesterday and they show fewer NZers leaving than any other time in the last 20 years, and also a high for Kiwis returning. Tags: migration
View ArticleWe need more migrants like this
Stuff reports: Xiou Ping Lu knows the true meaning of hard work. In her 50 years of life she has been a cleaner, a farmer, a hairdresser, a factory worker, a fruit picker, a business owner, a...
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Migration to Australia falls again
The latest monthly data sees the gap close further in terms of migration with Australia. Just 3,400 net people moved to Australia in 2014 – compared to almost 40,000 in 2012. Tags: migration
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Record inflow from Australia
Look at that inflow from Australia. It is almost double where it has been historically. And the outflow to Australia is at a near record low in absolute terms, and probably is at a record low as a...
View ArticleDevoy on Refugees
A reader e-mails re this story: A few points on this: Firstly, the Race Relations Commissioner should not involve herself in matters of public policy outside the scope of her responsibilities. She is...
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1st time since 1991 net migration from Australia has been positive
In April 2015, there was a net inflow of 100 people from Australia to NZ – the first net inflow since 1991. Here’s what April has looked like for the last decade between Australia and NZ: April 2015...
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