Migration: New record for Kiwis leaving New Zealand as exodus deepens
Migration figures for April this year show a record number of Kiwis have decided New Zealand is no longer their home.
Stats NZ figures show 81,200 New Zealand citizens left our shores in the past year, a 41 percent increase on April 2023 and an increase on the previous record in March of 78,200
Of course Kiwis are fleeing this hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government!
Of course the deeply flawed student loan system that drives young graduates off shore to repay that debt is part of the problem.
Of course capitulation to donor interests rather than the public good are driving Kiwis off shore.
Of course our lack of investment in people, infrastructure and public services is driving kiwis to leave.
The truth is that as climate change damages more of the planet, our kiwis will flee back home as NZ will be relatively better off climate wise than the rest of the planet.
We need universal investment into social housing, green technology, sustainable adaptation degrowth capitalism and free public services that are properly funded.
We need free public transport, we need to nationalise early childhood education, we need state backed means for state tenants to buy their own homes and we need a vast increase of funding into the Arts.
We can do this by legalising a Cannabis market alongside targeted taxes that lower taxes for the working classes while increasing them for the richest and most polluting.
There is a better way of being NZ, this neoliberal free market bullshit is the problem!
We need a Kiwi Socialism that taxes the wealthy to fund the infrastructure we all need.
The wealthy have only built that wealth from a society and community that fostered their entrepreneurship!
It is righteous they pay more tax for a society that enabled that wealth.
The political project of the right is to underfund public services and then hold up privatisation of the services as the solution once they go to shit.
If this many Kiwis were leaving NZ under Labour, the mainstream media would be screaming for blood, yet under National, the Press Gallery give them a total free pass.
Shifting overseas isn’t a snap decision, this economic and social malaise was caused by Labour, only the politically one eyed would try and blame the Nats.
It’s Labour getting the free pass in discussing why people are leaving, not to mention the role of the media in creating this rainbow friendly, racially divided, immigrant flooded, infrastructure lacking, crime riddled, low wage paradise.
“Shifting overseas isn’t a snap decision, this economic and social malaise was caused by Labour,”
Closer to the truth: People with enough get up and go to actually up and leave early are generally the ones that can and have read the writing on the wall, and want to leave before the real consequences of NAct’s economic and social vandalism really bites. Watch and wait, the migratory hemorrhaging will get a lot worse.
The thing is, Keepcalmcarryon if people thought National was going to get the country back on track, they wouldn’t be leaving.
Some truth in that Chairman , and isn’t that a frightening thought.
Indeed.
Nah you dickheads, it was started under Key and National as evidenced by McGehan Close. Key made a video of Wellingtom stadium as the numbers leaving,now it’s half of the North Island and of course they’re leaving,Nationals policies have divided the country and the pro.otion of low wages has driven people overseas.
Labour’s tenure kept professionals here. No amount of your tribalism right wing garbage can deny that.
Key was referring to the number of people leaving under Helen Clark’s Labour Government.
If it was Labour’s fault that people are leaving that would have ended with the COC being elected, the evidence that it continues & is increasing now that 3 years without Labour is confirmed suggests that you are just making excuses without the intellectual ability to present a credible argument.
There is also no screaming about this from the opposition either.
Nor is there an alternative Budget
No opposition to PPPs, congestion charges and user-pays.
We need better opposition
Apparently TMP is the only real hope according to some here, which says if you’re hoping for the opposition to save you, you’re probably screwed or should get on a plane to Oz & save yourself.
That’s the problem, many are leaving, Gerald Mann.
As for the opposition, they have a vital role to play. And to date, they have been largely hopeless.
Labour have yet to form policy and don’t plan to until the run up to the election. Leaving them politically impotent.
TMP seem to have got themselves all caught up in seeking another parliament.
And the Greens are largely missing in action. For example, they failed to produce an alternative Budget. A lost opportunity to shine, widen and grow their support.
no coal mines on the gold coast and just read two stories today about how shit AUS is and how the rental market is fucked in WA with an mp earning 167k cant rent a place so is living in motels or camping out in his car and tent .100 % dearer to go out for a feed and college kids that are kiwi cant go to uni and they pay $125 to go to the doctor .My old freind who does FIFO IN WA has just been made redundant .
Some journalists could be trying to take that angle. However, the fact people are leaving in numbers suggests they don’t believe this Government’s economic reforms are going to fix things
As Muldoon said, New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries.
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