
Why New Zealanders are moving to Australia in droves
Gulf Times
Why New Zealanders are moving to Australia in droves
For decades, moving “across the ditch” to Australia has been an easy option for New Zealanders seeking higher pay and broader prospects. There’s no visa required and it’s just a quick, three-hour flight separating the two countries. The steady flow — joked about in the late 1970s by then-New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon as “raising the average IQ of both countries” — has recently struck a nerve due to the high number of departures and news that former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has become the latest high-profile Kiwi to relocate. Emigration is now feeding debate ahead of New Zealand’s November general election over wages, opportunity and what a sustained exodus might mean for the county’s long-term prospects.













