Over at the wokest media in NZ, Dileepa Fonseka has written his 10 000th column on how hateful cracker NZ is and why we are all racist against migrants which is funny because here we are throwing open our borders without learning any of the mistakes of the past…
Border opening and immigration changes announced by PM
The Government has brought the border’s total reopening forward to July 31 and has announced major changes to immigration settings hoped to attract overseas construction, engineering, trades, health and tech workers.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the changes by video link, joined by Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi, at a Business New Zealand lunch in central Auckland.
The border will be fully open from 11.59pm on July 31, when pre-departure testing requirements will also be dropped. Meanwhile, the Government has set out a new ‘’green list’’ to replace the skills shortage list. Workers can have their residency applications fast tracked and processed within 30 days if they are filling critical gaps, or within two years, on an accredited employer work visa.
…The globalists at Stuff have won with their never ending MIQ stories to ensure their own global skill set can always travel.
The hyper tourism market that exist to sell red bull to tourists are laughing.
The industries that benefit from migrant worker exploitation laugh.
All those kiwis stupid enough to travel during a pandemic are gleeful.
The international student scam are dancing with joy.
Welcome back exploited migrant workers and Students and tourists who will block our public transport, who will place rent pressures on domestic renters, who will crowd our groaning infrastructure!
Expect rentals to explode.
Weep dear Kiwi at the neoliberal free market plague sweeping back in, weep at our Fortress NZ protection ripped away from us at a time when external shockwaves become the norm, weep that our quality of life plunges again.
Weep of course right up until the next variant gets loose and then the public will be screaming to shut MIQ in a never ending yo-yoing of panic.
This country has two secrets to our ‘economic growth’ – steal land off Māori and never pay it back and open the floodgates to cheap lazy immigration to create the sense of growth with none of the planned building of infrastructure to cope with that mass immigration.
We have learned nothing from Covid.
The economic pressures and stresses are building with speed now, this will simply add fuel to those drivers.
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The propertied class, the international students and the exploitative workers are fucking over the NZ underclass… they are starting to get the picture…
There is a real quandary here for our government.
Rather than trying to genuinely fix our broken housing market, Labour/Greens have worked to ensure its preserved but the embarrassing side effects are hidden in motels and former student accommodation. Now what? I bet they have not given this much thought at all. Rather than championing non binary co leadership what was the Minister for Homelessness doing? Sweet FA.
When Rotorua wants to go back to tourism rather than being the provincial MSD capital of the world, then what? Surely dealing with tourists as a motelier is infinitely easier than dealing with dysfunction?
What about Auckland or Wellington similarly motivated by far less troublesome tenants than the MSD in students and tourists?
Yet again the chickens are coming home to roost for this government!
Agree 100%. I’m still trying to figure out who we gave away this country to, but well done to all the Kiwis who did play their part in helping to avert the worst pandemic scenarios. We did ok.
Those that see NZ as a venal money trench for their personal benefit have won again. Those glorious few months when public health was put before private profit are just a memory. The Labour Caucus have had their arse kicked by banks, big business, SMEs, self employed, Convoy and even the Courts with their mandate rulings.
Gens X, Millenial and Z–you have to get politically organised.
“weep that our quality of life plunges again.”
I’d argue other than the woke elite our quality of life plunged significantly during the Smug Hermit Kingdom period.
I wouldn’t worry Bomber – people aren’t coming back into New Zimbabwe while masks and pre-departure RAT tests are required and you have to make your own bed at a 5-star hotel. Then there is the issue of Rotorua, downtown Auckland and Queenstown, our tourist focal points . The 2 former ones now resemble downtown Bagdad while the later has no staff and only half its attractions open.
And we are targeting top-end tourists. Bahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahaaha.
A week in Syria would be more attractive for most international tourists.
Frank the pre departure tests go when the border opens on the 31st July so not sure what you mean. Also give me a break about pre departure RATs being a barrier. More likely the cost of airfares unless you are staying in a five star hotels (and with volume increasing they will magically have staff again).
The UK “got on with it”, “lived with it” quicker but a fair amount of death, really high inflation, and people going without food according to the back lash generated by the speech to open parliament. The US never stopped “getting on with it” and has all sort of issues and a whole lot of dead people. Australia did better because our approaches were more similar than not. You can argue the Federal government moved quicker but the state governments said no thanks. John Key stroking himself over his Smug Hermit comment looks pretty stupid in my opinion
Wheely what happens when the first Busload of Tourists from the UK rock up to Rotorua and get a live rendition of Once Were Warriors?
Or American Tourists turn up in Auckland and go into a supermarket and have to wear a mask. The EU just removed masks from airports FFS.
As for Key. I think he is feeling pretty good actually. Go back to the Smug Hermit Kingdom call and it was the beginning of the end of the fairydust and team of 5 million propaganda. It was perfectly timed. If he stood right now National would be polling in the high 40s as the Sheeple never fell out of love with him.
Frankie, Americans that have passports invariably are a bit more worldly. Are you telling me they wouldn’t come to NZ because you have to wear a mask in a supermarket? We will just have to agree to disagree on that one
Noone cares what american trash think, Frank.
The stupid mask mandate will surely have to come to an end soon. They already know from various studies they don’t do anything whatsoever to either protect yourself or those around you – that’s “the science”, which was established well over a year ago (in fact it was already obvious from mask studies done in the 80’s!).
If masks are so usless why when you have an operation in a hospital do they mask up and in most Asian countries they been worn for years.
They do have value but it is time to join the rest of the World and leave it to personnal choice except in a medical situation
what the fuck are you on about?
“steal land off maori and never pay it back” Of course not. Maori only make up 15% of our population. Imagine if iwi still controlled most of the land and wealth in NZ/Ao. What sort of society would let so much wealth be concentrated in so few hands.
Yes Peter H most of Tainuis land was confiscated under the rebellious act but also a lot of prime land was taken under the public works act and then we had the churches they were also land thieves under the auspices of God.
I would like to know what conditions have to be met by employers to employ NZers first and how stringent are these measure to ensure Kiwis are at the front of the line. And also how is our government monitoring training and upskilling of NZers by the many companies and businesses relying on foreign workers. Also I don’t agree with the Greens wanting to bring everyman and his dog into our country when we cant even look after our own people. We have an aging population, huge inequalities and yet we are bringing in thousands of people to suit businesses when the trickle down is a load of bollocks it only trickles up and we all know it. As for the nurses dilemma we have known about many of our shortages in many occupations why are we not training more kiwis. We need to get into our colleges and do more extensive career advice, support and guidance showing the many career options available for our young people and what pathway they need to pursue to get into these occupations. Basically we need to, if not stop then heavily reduce our reliance on overseas workers.
seconded pa
So nurses are on the 2 year visa list so that the rest homes can continue to pay low wages to their nursing staff as they are not allow to transfer employer once they discover they are being paid $15 to $30 thousand less than DHB staff. Imaging if National were in power the fuss Little would kick up about this travesty. Labour supporters must be so sad about the direction of this government with the way it supports the rich and the workers are forced to strike for a fair deal
The majority of workers in rest homes are Orderlies, not Nurses. What gold plated retirement home do you live in?
The nurses are fully qualified in these homes.Try reading about the fact that many homes are closing wards as they cannot be staffed by nurses. There are 3 levels of nurses .
Not sure about being qualified , but there are levels of Homes…
Yes trev, Nurses are qualified, they in fact go to specialised schools to get said qualifications… but, the fact that most of the staff in rest homes are orderlies, seems to be conveniently ignored by you.
Being a National fan Trev you must be delighted with the direction as it will accelerate big time with the Chris and Dave show.
Yes I am pleased with the direction National is going. I could not have voted for Judith and really while Act have some good ideas over all they are not a party I would vote for..There is still a while to go before we are required to vote and plenty of chance to make a slip up on all sides
XRAY I don’t believe that Labour has worked to preserve the shitty housig situation. No, they have made a pact with the devil with Treasury’s guidance who has shown them the Right way to go – to the gururs Milton Friedman, Hayek, Anthony Giddens and all their accolytes who are applauded by all the rich people accumulating wealth in various ways since God knows when.
XRAY I don’t believe that Labour has worked to preserve the shitty housig situation. No, they have made a pact with the devil with Treasury’s guidance who has shown them the Right way to go – to the gururs Milton Friedman, Hayek, Anthony Giddens and all their accolytes who are applauded by all the rich people accumulating wealth in various ways since God knows when.
XRAY I don’t believe that Labour has worked to preserve the shitty housig situation. No, they have made a pact with the devil with Treasury’s guidance who has shown them the Right way to go – to the gururs Milton Friedman, Hayek, Anthony Giddens and all their accolytes who are applauded by all the rich people accumulating wealth in various ways since God knows when.
XRAY I don’t believe that Labour has worked to preserve the shitty housig situation. No, they have made a pact with the devil with Treasury’s guidance who has shown them the Right way to go – to the gururs Milton Friedman, Hayek, Anthony Giddens and all their accolytes who are applauded by all the rich people accumulating wealth in various ways since God knows when.
XRAY I don’t believe that Labour has worked to preserve the shitty housig situation. No, they have made a pact with the devil with Treasury’s guidance who has shown them the Right way to go – to the gururs Milton Friedman, Hayek, Anthony Giddens and all their accolytes who are applauded by all the rich people accumulating wealth in various ways since God knows when.
Frank tT Youi write a colourful line in deprecating NZ. Keep it up. We set our sights and imaginations too high, and are easy to flatter, better if we see things a bit darker and more soberly before that reality does hit us. Knowing it could, could well stir us to preparing ourselves for an unprecedented olympic contest against all our worst traits and their outcomes.
We need to be taught about this history of accumulaton of pikles of it and how it came about as it has continued unabated even after hiccups like the GFC. But it’s too hard for us to understand though we make efforts to do so, as we spend precious dollars trying to understand space and how life was formed, because
Same old same old, they have caved into the vested interests again, not surprised they have form when the heat comes on.
The great reset, what a fkn joke, the house farmers will be rubbing their hands with glee with the up & coming bonanza.
A massive kick in the teeth for all those in the lower paid jobs in this country.
So in comes the foreign workers and new variants and lets hope our government is vetting them to ensure we don’t have any more cases like the Indian women who claimed to be a chartered profession engineer. This women signed of 32 jobs as being safe so our government has a responsibility to make sure this does not happen. And this is but one case of dishonesty yet there has been many and no doubt due to desperation there will be more. As for the Nurses dilemma, why aren’t we training more NZers the same with teachers. Also if we stop the pre- departure testing now we might as well take of our mask and get Omicron.
indentured servants tied to one employer…jim crow anyone.? ..our alleged foreign minister should send herself a stiff note censuring exploitative employment policies in NZ
no nurses but cheap care home workers….more socialism for business
We have to ask questions like, “Why don’t people want to train to be Nurses?”. Perhaps the idea of working for $50K a year, working 50+ hours a week, being paid for 40 of them, just isn’t that attractive.
Being a low wage country just feeds the endless cycle of qualified Kiwis going overseas, and immigrants coming in.
indeed because the sub continent is not known for degree mills and fraudulent qualifications is it?
but don’t fret our education system is rapidly catching up.
Seems that our schools and tertiary institutes see their sole reason for existing is to pull in international students and the local students are an annoyance at best.
I would say that one of the reasons why so many kids are wagging school is that the teachers and principals would rather them not be there, and instead the fee paying international students can be placed front and centre.