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By Eric Worrall
h/t Charles – a large spike in disappointed Progressive Aussies registering interest in migration to New Zealand has been detected in the wake of Australia’s shock Federal election result.
Traffic to New Zealand’s Immigration Website Skyrocketed After the Australian Election
By Gavin Butler|21 May 2019, 12:03pm
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Immigration New Zealand (INZ) revealed that the number of people in Australia looking at its website on Sunday—the day after the election—increased more than tenfold compared to the same time the week before, SBS reports. Registered expressions of interest—the first step in the visa process—increased by more than 25 times. More than 8,500 people visited the New Zealand Now website and 512 registered interest, compared to about 20 registrations on May 12, the government department said. Google analytics also showed a spike in Australians searching the words ‘moving to New Zealand’, according to TVNZ—particularly those from Queensland.
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Jennifer Curtin, politics professor at Auckland University and an expert in trans-Tasman politics, suggested that the sudden interest in emigrating to New Zealand could be a temporary reaction to voters’—particularly progressive voters’—disappointment that Labor didn’t win. When the economic realities of actually moving country were fully considered, she said, people’s enthusiasm was likely to wane.
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Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/qv73eq/traffic-new-zealands-immigration-website-skyrocketed-spiked-after-australian-election-move-emigrate-politics
Sorry New Zealand, it looks like you’re going to have to take one for the team.
We don’t need any more Ozzie eco-fascists down here.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/rightwing-extremist-wrote-manifesto-before-livestreaming-christchurch-shooting
This is really funny and demonstrates how 8500 “Australians” didn’t have a clue with regards to migration between Australia and New Zealand. Australians do not have to apply for a visa to migrate to NZ. The same applies to NZers migrating to Australia. Both can get on a plane and go. For Australians it’s exactly like moving interstate. There is a reciprocal agreement between the two countries for healthcare, and I think there is also some tax issues too I don’t recall the details.
There are differences however for NZers. NZers enter Australia and are granted at the border a special sub-class 444 visa (Which is revoked upon exit at the border). Helen Clarke a former PM of NZ agreed to this with John Howard, a former PM of Australia effective 26th Feb 2001. This entitles NZers the right to live and work in Australia however, it is a temporary visa granting temporary residence status to holders. 444 visa holders can’t vote, can’t engage in state/taxpayer funded education courses NZers have to pay full international student fees and many other limits, and yet pay full tax on income (Or property for that matter). And yet there is approx 23% of the adult working population of NZ here in Australia. I am a NZer and I am also British.
So it was a big load on nothing, like Americans (The famous ones) saying they would migrate to Canada when Trump won. Didn’t happen. Australians are not going NZ after the LNP winning here last w/e.
It’s all hot air and no substance. Jacinda Ardern is making sure that more and more NZers will migrate somewhere, I know of one friend who is because she simply can’t find work.
I have a few Kiwi friends in Oz Reason they moved here years ago here -better wages more opportunities
I also meet young Kiwis working here in cafes etc
The reason is still the same -few and lower paid jobs at home many more and higher paid ones here
They fit in well(apart from lamentable tendency to support the All Blacks World Rugby champs )
” … Jacinda Ardern is making sure that more and more NZers will migrate somewhere, I know of one friend who is because she simply can’t find work.”
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Isn’t that the socialist version of ‘success’?
I wonder how many of these are people who have recently discovered that they are regarded in the Australian constitution as dual citizens? There are a lot of us, far far more than 8,000. Probably most of us knew we were eligible for NZ citizenship on the basis of descent, but had not realised the ramifications. In my family, amongst us Australian born, it’s been ‘who knew we couldn’t be PM here?’ and ‘well, I didn’t want to be PM anyway’.
Actually for north American readers you need to understand the relative free flow of citizens permitted between Oz an NZ and the social and economic integration between the countries. Citizens can live and work in the other country and there are mutual health and welfare arrangements. Our economies are pretty intergrated with the A- NZ Closer Economic Relations agreement “recognised as one of the closest, broadest and mutually compatible in the world” to quote our foriegn ministry. We do it all without having any form of elected infrastructure across the ditch, although the 1900 Constitution of Australia does provide for NZ being one of the states of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Not welfare until after 2 years IIRC. NZers are temporary residents in Australia and to be a permanent resident have to apply under the general skills category just like any other migrant from any other country. Australians are permanent residents upon entry.
What I find quite amazing is that the eco-terrorists in Aus want to move to NZ. One of the keywords in their movement is GLOBAL warming. Why do they believe moving to NZ is going to change anything???
Because Jacinda Ardern. Leftist luvvies love her! She will fix the climate.
Just wait and see what happens after the next major earthquake or volcanic eruption.
Please don’t mention such things. Having been through one reasonably major earthquake and living on that line Ruapehu to the White I’m not keen on experiencing anything like what you suggest again.
It would improve Australia.
Can NZ afford to give them all cosy public service jobs? Otherwise, they won’t come.
Progressive voters? More like regressive voters. And I don’t think NZ accepts political refugees.
“When the economic realities of actually moving country were fully considered, she said, people’s enthusiasm was likely to wane.”
This is why we have GoFundMe campaigns. Play your cards right and Morrison will probably post the link on his website.
As they used to say it will improve the average IQ of both countries
They could all go to Siberia and stake out a homestead in the last place humans will be able to luve due to global warming. Go now no need for any winter clothing it is already blistering hot.
Deep down they know that would be bad for themselves but they do like to push others in the wrong direction.
Okay, let them in but they must all wear Middle Earth costumes and live like Hobbits…..and Orks.
The fact that so many leftists are willing to leave rather than stay and fight for what they claim to believe in, is just further proof that it’s all virtue signalling.
I think Macron’s offer to take in refugee “scientists” and “educators” still stands.
It won’t happen. Greenies always want someone else to do the work for them and this is just posturing. Look at all the people who said they were going to move to Canada when Trump got in. As soon as they found out about Canada’s petty crime problems, incredibly high taxes, cold winters and rigouros immigration process, they realized it was all just too much work. They soon settled down and returned to daily whining. They secretly hope that because they are so special, by threatening to leave, people will run after them and beg them to stay by promising not to vote for Trump next election.
The more disappointed ‘Progressives’ that Australia can unload into New Zealand, the greater will be the improvement of the average IQ in Australia, the greater the chance for industrial development and the greater the level of education. Poor old New Zealand will have to see if it has any spare basket-weaving capacity to absorb the newcomers.
The IQ of both countries will increase ..
More scarcely believable nonsense. All Australians have to do to move to NZ is get on a plane and go there.
“If you are a citizen or permanent resident of Australia you don’t need to apply for a visa to live and work in New Zealand. You can be granted a visa on arrival at the border.” – https://www.newzealandnow.govt.nz/why-choose-nz/compare-new-zealand/australia
This is our version of self-deportation.
Before President Trump got elected, many many US citizens boldly proclaimed that “if Trump is elected, we will leave the USA and move to New Zealand”. Guess what? Virtue signalling. None of the people we know who made these promises did anything of the sort. They just sulked in their misery on not understanding the USA is not New York and California!
So, we don’t expect any Aussies to pack their bags and come to what has become socialist New Zealand under both Labour and National parties.
More likely, Kiwis will flock to Australia to take up well paying mining jobs because over here in New Zealand, mining is a swear word, even looking for oil and gas is banned off-shore, and our Taranaki industry related to oil and gas is being culled.
I remember that when George W won his second term New Zealand was inundated with inquiries about immigration from US leftists. And, of course, with Trump’s victory it was Canada they all said they would move to. If only the Left were a little more self-aware.
Today’s refugee crisis hark back to history, this isn’t anything new. I wrote one on the refused refugees of 1939. https://theholocaustandworldwarii.com/
Today’s “invaders” are absolutely NOT “refugees” of religious persecution (other than of overseas Christians), racial persecution (other than of whites in Southern Africa and the MidEast), nor political persecution.
They are here to take tax money and government give-aways, to get jobs, and to get their children into American schools, on American health programs and tax programs, and to become American magnet children/anchor babies as a scheme to get over the border and through the lines. Once inside the border by claiming “key words and tricky phrases” from the “book” offered by illegal alien registrant programs (themselves government-funded through religious sponsored NGO’s), fewer than 3% ever show up for their hearings and exams.