The lucky country: Aussie tax system more progressive than NZ’s
It fascinates me that in all this talk about ‘catching up with Australia’ via tax cuts, nobody bothers to look at the Aussie […]
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im/migration
Blast from the past
I see Winston Peters is trying to resurrect his political career with another racist rant about immigration. I don’t think there’s much point […]
More National sleeze
There’s been an attempt to force Peter Goodfellow, the brand new President of the National Party, to step down. The move came from […]
What price citizenship?
“What price citizenship?“, asks Heather Roy. “$10 million“, says Jonathan Coleman.
The scandal that wasn’t there and the one that was
The Herald really really wants to uncover an expenses scandal like in the UK. Think of the fun they could have. But they’re […]
Compare and Contrast
Prior to the last election our fearless MSM media uncritically repeated Key’s ‘NZ Sucks’ Crosby/Textor attack lines, framing an historically unremarkable rise in […]
Emigration still trendy
Herald: “Almost 1000 a week leaving for Australia. The flood of migrants across the Tasman continues unabated, with latest figures showing New Zealanders […]
English pulls a Lockwood
Oh dear. In the same week Lockwood Smith made his racist remarks and Maurice Williamson committed the gaffe of talking openly about National […]
Scratch a Tory…
…and you still reveal a bigot, it seems. Here is National’s Immigration spokesperson, Lockwood Smith, (he who likes to swallow dead fish) on […]
Nats relying on ignorance
It’s really easy to present misleading statistics. David Farrar shows how it’s done with a post on migration today. Note how his figures […]
Kerr shows how the Right lie to themselves
The Business Roundtable held another in their series of forums on political issues targeted at young people on Thursday. The aim is obviously to get […]
Growing opposition to Immigration Bill
Nick Butcher has produced this excellent video opposing the Immigration Bill (which we blogged about last week and is covered in more detail […]
Drop the Immigration Bill
The September 11 attacks were used as cover to pass draconian laws around the world, particularly concerning immigration. The Government is, once again, […]
More migration mythbusting
From Brian Fallow in The Herald on migration and immigration: …Statistics New Zealand has been comparing last year with previous peak gross outflows, […]
The grass isn’t greener across the ditch
The cornerstone of National’s ‘New Zealand sucks’ campaign is that Australia is much better (and we have to lower taxes and slash work […]
More bluster, still no policies
Every month, Stats releases migration figures. Each month, they show little change in the pattern from last month. And each month, National comes […]
Clydesdale report rubbished
Greg Clydesdale’s report that labelled Pacific Islanders a ‘drain on the economy’ has been rubbished as a lazy, intellectually dishonest piece of work […]
Fairfax reporting staggeringly awful
This morning’s Dom Post buys into National’s “Aussie exodus” spin with a lead story claiming “A staggering one in 10 voters are considering […]
What would National do?: Emigration
Simon Power has hit on the fact that Stats New Zealand produces migration figures every month, and that means every month he gets […]
Emigration in perspective
Last year, 99.33% of New Zealand citizens liked their country so much they stayed. Some left for short periods, and some left forever but they […]
Lies, damned lies, and statistics
David Farrar appears to be throwing his weight in behind National Party’s “New Zealand Sucks” campaign with another misleading post on migration to […]
Behind National’s emigration wailing
National likes to talk down New Zealand, to portray this great country as underperforming, to exaggerate our problems, and to cast our unique […]
Claims of Aussie brain drain a myth
Refreshing to see the fourth estate challenging the political spin from time to time. The Independent Financial Review has this on the myth […]