The decision to raise the quota to 1000 refugees per year from the current 750 does nothing to redress the three decades of no increase to our refugee quota. It is a token gesture designed to mollify proponents for more resettlement and to be able to tell the general population that the government is “doing something”.
ACCORDING TO PATRICK DUNN, the Catholic Bishop of Auckland, his church is haemorrhaging “New Zealand-born” and “New Zealand-bred” followers. He calls this Pakeha turning away from the church “Kiwi Drift”. Its effects, says the Bishop, have been masked by the recent influx of thousands of Catholic migrants.
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