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Over 160,000 people have become New Zealand residents now that 80 per cent of 2021 Resident Visa (2021RV) applications have been processed, Immigration Minister Michael Wood announced today.
“The 2021 Resident Visa is one of a number of measures the Government has taken to keep and attract workers to New Zealand to help fill the global skills shortage post COVID,” Michael Wood said.
“We created New Zealand’s largest one-off path to residence in late 2021 to give migrants certainty about their future here, and allow them to continue to put down roots.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2303/S00122/more-than-160000-new-kiwis-to-call-nz-home.htm
What actually happened. For some rise in national income incomers were invitee to NZ to work and stay, taking jbs that people hadn’t been trained to do, and work for overseas businesses that had been invited here and took over the businesses already here or stopped them starting or expanding. And took the houses that people needed and forced up prices because of the demand so NZs generally lost out there and have almost lost heart.
This sounds interesting.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2303/S00027/womad-preview-taraf-de-caliu-continuing-a-roma-musical-legacy.htm
Taraf de Caliu, a new project of the founding members of Taraf de Haidouks, will be performing at WOMAD in Taranaki this weekend. The group’s music is deeply rooted in the traditional music of Southern Romania, known as lautari, and is characterized by its fast-paced rhythms, intricate melodies, and virtuosic instrumental performances featuring violin and hammered dulcimer…
The band were also featured in the 2001 documentary film “Latcho Drom” directed by Tony Gatlif. The film explores the journey of Romani music and culture through various countries and features musicians from different regions. Taraf de Haidouks appear in the segment of the film that takes place in Romania.
https://www.womad.co.nz/schedules/
WOMAD NZ 17-19 March 2023 » WOMAD New Zealand
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17-19 March, 2023! TICKETS SELLING FAST! REDISCOVER THE WORLD OF MUSIC AND DANCE THIS MARCH! Bowl of Brooklands and Brooklands Park, New Plymouth, Taranaki …
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Where are they now? Jamie Lee Ross:
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/from-politician-to-pimp-the-transformation-of-jami-lee-ross
As you know, I don’t like your aggressive ‘anti-woke’ attitude — brings into question your Leftness, given they’re all minorities. In America, where both parties of the rich use identity to prevent the people’s cause, the progressive Vlogs are never anti-woke. If they can do that in that cauldron of plutocracy we have no need to attack minorities here. Which just leaves over-correctness (by which most of our generation have been frayed).
Anyway, I’m here to ask your opinion on Trotter’s ‘Maori Revolution’ — which brings into question his Leftness. You haven’t joined in. I’m nervous about it, just don’t think it will matter in the long run, which is where I diverge from him.
Generally, I think Rogernomics has trained him up to be as short-term as the Rogernomes.
Is this just thinking ahead or is it a feeding frenzy forcing up the costs.
And who will own the water?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/486111/lake-onslow-pumped-hydro-scheme-cost-estimate-rises-almost-300-percent-to-15-point-7b
And
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/486149/auckland-airport-unveils-3-point-9-billion-redevelopment-project