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Bro, everyone has already fled!

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Which bargain basement jingle are they rolling out with this? Briscoes, Warehouse or the Michael Hill chain chain silver silver gold gold sale sale.
Government Policy produces record exports of young humans.
It’s good business stevie. The young educate themselves at their own expense, and take their qualifications to the outer world, so funding universities to be open for foreigners to pay to study here, providing a profit from universities as a business, or at least a near-profit, enough for a slush fund with positions for ex-pollies and their jesters in education – not much competition – their prowess gets minimal scrutiny.
Greywarbler Well…yes… the young educate themselves at their own expense here, and often overseas post-grad at their own expense also. It’s not easy.
But what about people like the police officers trained at the expense of the New Zealand taxpayer and lost to Australia ? And the firefighters ? Job-challenged persons upskilled with training incentive allowances and then taking those skills off-shore? The New Zealand taxpayer pays for all this and loses out on the benefits of having done so.
Surely not Aunt Daisy thanks for bringing this to the attention of the Finance Minister, the PM, the MP, and other acronyms who will now be right onto rectifying the situation!
Everyone must go including our incompetent PM
Every time a National government, our best and brightest flee overseas.
Well I guess the advertising talent has gone….(FYI I have only just seen the visuals – did they get their mums to make it? Even a 12 year old could have done better! They really dislike NZ don’t they – talk about rooting our brand…)
AIR nz NEEDS TO PUT ON MORE FLIGHTS
Can’t. Airnz? probably sacked its senior staff and used AI which has wasted its fuel which now has to be all imported since Marsden Point Refinery closed; probably now likely to suffer from a quality deficit which we will have to suck up or go without. Where is Luxon when he could possibly be of use?
Tag line recycled from a coalition cabinet paper on the public service