English Tests for Migrant Workers, $5m Homes for Investors
Speak English if you are a migrant worker. Bring millions if you want a mansion. National’s immigration priorities could not be clearer.
Migrant Workers
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Cheap racism + brutal economics – Luxon brings poppadoms for butter chicken tsunami while promising more austerity
Luxon is flirting with anti-immigration politics while promising more austerity, even as public services hollow out and corporate subsidies continue.
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Seymour overrules OIO advice to NOT sell three South Otago farms to foreign investors while attacking immigrants
Rich foreigners buying farms? Welcome in. Poor migrant workers overstaying visas? Bring in the political attack dogs. This isn’t policy, it’s hypocrisy.
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New Zealand has a system of migrant labour exploitation by design
For decades New Zealand relied on migrant workers to prop up the economy, while trapping many in a temporary visa system with little long-term security.
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Migrant Surcharge ‘Discriminatory’, Campaign Warns
A $6-a-day migrant surcharge won’t fix New Zealand’s infrastructure crisis, but critics say it will make vulnerable workers pay for decades of political failure.
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Labour backs India free trade agreement
Labour says yes to the India free trade agreement—but warns the Government may be overselling a deal with serious long-term risks.
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Chippy shows Labour is listening on Indian Free Trade Agreement
Chris Hipkins outlines Labour’s conditions for supporting the India Free Trade Agreement, including migrant worker protections and transparency demands.
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Waitangi 2026 – Western Pakeha values + Māori Kaupapa are strong enough to welcome multi-culturalism not fear it
As Aotearoa marks Waitangi 2026, this essay argues that Te Tiriti, co-governance and democratic values strengthen — not threaten — multiculturalism.
