National put all our economic hopes into hyper tourism and migrant exploitation

By
Martyn Bradbury
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Groan…

Tourism industry gives new government campaign the thumbs up

Thumbs up for the Government’s tourism campaign. 

It’s putting 13.5 million dollars into Tourism New Zealand, targeting markets like China, Australia, the US, India, Germany and South Korea.  

Arrivals in February were down this year overall. 

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Tourism Holdings Chief Executive Grant Webster told Ryan Bridge it’s the right time to invest.  

Webster says Kiwis often think people just come here, but New Zealand’s less than 1-percent of the world’s tourism meaning we have to compete. 

…double groan…

February net migration gain up 29.3% year-on-year, annual gain down as 44,055 NZ citizens leave

Oh yay – hyper tourism and exploitative migrant labour are back on the agenda!

YAY!

Bernard Hickey is scathing…

‘But the low-wage & low-cost migrant workers will save us’

However, the Government is pushing for growth in the population and in low-wage temporary workers to generate some nominal GDP growth, as shown in migration figures published yesterday showing a near doubling in net migration to 5,430 February from 23,70 in March.

This increased annual net migration to 32,922 from 30,932 the previous month. This was the strongest monthly balance since December 2023 and the annual increase was the first increase since October 2023.

One feature of an economy dependent on temporary worker migration for growth and low wages is the idea that temporary workers do not cost anything to maintain through the health and education systems, and do not need infrastructure investments in the form of extra housing, schooling and transport investment.

A key element of that is the policy that temporary migrants must be ejected if one of them requires support by the health system, as shown in this RNZ report about a South African declined residency because their son’s health issues are considered a burden on New Zealand’s health and education systems.

…the 5 pillars of NZs economy are:

  • Hyper tourism uber alles
  • Migrant worker exploitation uber alles
  • Stealing Indigenous Land and NEVER give it back uber alles
  • Basic bitch milk powder uber alles
  • Property speculation uber alles

…that National are falling back into the same failed short term economic pillars highlights the total lack of real vision from this Government.

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22 COMMENTS

    • well national clearly dont have a plan do they .Flooding the country is nothing new is it .I think JK did the same when he was pm and look at the result of that and ask queens town how many houses they have built for staff .I think the answer might be a big fat zero .Also they are now pumping sewage into the shot over so how will they cope with another 100k tourists .

  3. Good idea ,just what we need 100k tourists and no toilets or other infrastructure .Then we will fly in 100k Indians under the trade agreement who will live on the street and work for $5 an hour to clean up after them .

    • Don’t forget the tens of thousands of south americans and ukrainians needed to serve the 100,000 tourists in the cafes. Oh and they have no where to live so we need more trailer parks.

  5. The government are on the wrong track, only those with a cognitive disability would think otherwise.

  6. My thought is this. If Tourism is a business why does the taxpayers pay for their advertising. It’s bad enough that we have to subsidies their shit wages and pay accomodation supplements for their exploited staff.
    If they can’t survive without government support let them sink and spend the money on Health and education.

  7. Next leg will be the India NZ free trade “in people” agreement.

    Which really means allowing additional tens of thousands more overseas students p.a. on scam course to resident visa schemes, driving up rent demand and driving down wages. Win/win for National donors.

    Too bad if NZ infrastructure and services are already creeking at the seams.

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