A reader sent in the following link from the Urban Dictionary:
New Zealand Holocaust
The term to describe the massive native population decline in New Zealand. 25 percent of New Zealand college graduates have fled New Zealand, and nearly 20 percent of adult working age New Zealanders do not live in New Zealand. 1000 New Zealanders a week move to Australia to make significantly more money and life better lives in cities that are not crime ridden, tall poppy syndrome ridden, road to nowhere hellholes that exist in New Zealand. 1% of the New Zealand population leaves its country each year.Did you see that new guy at work? He’s a New Zealander.
Yes, he’s the fifth New Zealander I’ve seen today. They are all coming over here because there’s nothing in New Zealand but sheep and crime ridden cities. It’s like a New Zealand Holocaust over there.by MARIO VAN FEEBLES Jun 16, 2011
NZ National failed to deliver on its blue sky thinking.
Job market ‘challenging’ govt admits
The government is blaming the global financial crisis and the Canterbury earthquakes for a “challenging” job market.
Unemployment rose to 6.7 per cent in the last quarter and at the end of March there were 160,000 people out of work, Statistics NZ said on Thursday.
That’s a 0.3 per cent increase on the previous quarter, which hadn’t been expected.
The labour force swelled to a three-year high and more people were chasing jobs.
Employment Minister Steven Joyce says there’s a gradual and steady increase in the number of jobs available.
“These figures continue to reflect a challenging job market as the country continues to deal with the impact of the global financial crisis and the Canterbury earthquakes,” he said…”
Earlier this week Labour and the Greens urged the government to give the Reserve Bank wider powers to control the exchange rate, warning that hundreds of businesses would go bust if the dollar stayed high” read more
In the comments section of the article Kiwis say:
“too many kiwis are voting with their passports.That is what i voted last election:pack up to OZ.I wish i could have stayed in NZ but it was financial suicide”
“Increase the minimum wage and people will have more to spend and that will stimulate the economy not to mention encouraging young ones to stay in the country.That is a start but the minimum wage stays the same and prices go up.Someone please organise a portest,all minimum wage earners go on strike and the country will come to a stand still.maybe then they will listen.The country is nothing without the working class.”
E2NZ.org 
Reminds me of the all the money they spent in Auckland just for the RWC. To what long-term benefit for the people?
Very little, from all accounts.
Incidentally, who held the purse strings for Auckland’s funding of the RWC and how were they recompensed for it after the event?
That’s a VERY good thought. I was wondering where they got all that money too. 😉
Have some grapes?
I’d definitely not trivialise the fact that people were transported to concentration camps for their religion, or trivialise any other similar event (such as the Rwandan genocide) by calling “voting with passports” a “Holocaust”, but I’d call it an Exodus for sure. 🙂 The Golden (calf) Coast awaits them. ;D
Which makes it peculiar that hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money has been given to fund a show like “The GC”