If this many people had been leaving under Labour, Mike Hosking would be screaming
The brain drain is on: 30,000 Kiwis wing it to Australia in a year
The sheer incompetence of this Government is staggering.
They imposed a massive public funding amputation using an Austerity Budget that borrowed more for tax cuts we cant afford while hollowing out actual money for public services.
This led to a total shut down of the construction industry for public housing builds and has seen workers flee to Australia!
758 construction businesses have gone into liquidation in the last 12 months, thanks in part to the Government’s freeze on transport, housing and hospital investment spending at the beginning of 2024, Centrix reported this morning. Construction jobs have fallen by 12,723 in the last year!
National did this, National take the blame.
What I found most delightful, is the hypocrisy of the NZ mainstream media.
If Labour was in power during an exodus this massive, the mainstream media led by Mike Hosking would be demanding revolution while listing every reason Labour were driving Kiwis offshore, yet it happens while National is in power and no such reaction from the media!
If this many people had been leaving under Labour, Mike Hosking would be screaming!
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Construction and Hospitality are easy to get into but hard to make wages plus putting money aside for Tax and GST . The tax department have got tougher with none payers and put many into liquidation. For everyone that closes another one opens .
Australia has always attracted NZ workers as they can offer higher wages and a warmer climate but many return for family or life style reasons .NZ is attractive to many good people from around the world . We gain more than we lose so why worry..
We gain more than we lose so why worry..
No you don’t, silly comment. Kiwi born leave, immigrants escaping their own flaws and country arrive here.
People and Hosking is an oxymoron, he only does himself.
“Everyone has gone”