Beware the New Points System for “Migrants for Regions”

As most people will tell you, the reason why a quarter of New Zealand’s population live in Auckland is because that’s where most of the jobs are. The remainder are chiefly in Wellington and (rebuild work) in Christchurch. Why then is the NZ government about to award migrants extra application points if they apply to live…

Top of the Lake, The New Zealand Lifestyle Writ Large

Earlier this year we blogged about the UKTV/BBC mini series Top of the Lake, filmed in and around Queenstown and Lake Moke, directed by Jane Campion and Garth Davis the series co-stars Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan and Lucy Lawless. In the land where fantasy has officially become reality it’s good to see a show which presents Zealand…

The New Zealand ‘Holocaust’

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…

New Zealand’s Unemployment Rate Rises

Statistics NZ has issued a press release with the shock revelation that unemployment in New Zealand rose in the last quarter to another 10 year high undoing almost all of the improvement seen in the previous quarter. “In seasonally adjusted terms, New Zealand’s unemployment rate rose from 6.0 percent to 6.8 percent during the June…