Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The big clean out
So, how's that closing the gap with Australia going?
Well, a record 3300 (net) Kiwis left New Zealand for its warmer, wealthier pastures in May alone.
This compares (unfavourably) with a net loss of 'just' 1700 last May.
That Nice Mr Key is lucky the media is framing this largely as a "people abandoning Christchurch due to the constant bloody earthquakes" issue, rather than as a "the New Zealand economy is poked, and getting worse" issue.
However, the Christchurch angle doesn't bear too much scrutiny: only 800 international departees listed that as their prior permanent abode. That's only 300 more than left Christchurch in May 2010.
Put it another way: even if all 800 Christchurch residents leaving New Zealand went to Australia (and they didn't ... that figure includes all emigrants), it would account for only half the net increase in loss to Australia between May 2010 and May 2011!
In addition, we could estimate that the 800 figure is only 18.8% of the 4257 gross departures from New Zealand to Australia (945 people moved permanently in the opposite direction).
Given that not all 800 would have left for Australia, this means that more than 83% of New Zealanders heading permanently in that direction were from non-earthquake-afflicted areas.
That's the line the media should go with.
Or, it could lead with part of this quote from Prof Paul Spoonley, which seems on the money:
"Once these people have found a job and are settled in Australia, then the short answer is that they are unlikely to be coming back," he said.
"We are losing people who are in their prime working age and very often, they take their family and children along with them.
"So effectively, New Zealand is losing two generations of Kiwis at least."
Labels: australia, john key is a morally bankrupt wanker, migration, new zealanders
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The Difference Between a Korean and a New Zealander
My wife just screamed from another room and I thought she's fallen off the deck or been shot or something.
I go running out to find out where she is and what has happened and she's discovered the mouse that we suspected was under the kitchen sink in the cupboard.
Now here's the difference. She tells me to get it. I tell her to forget about it and we can buy a trap tomorrow because I'm not catching it and killing it commando style. I'm a wuss. The only time I have killed an animal with my bare hands was a year or so ago when one of our cats fucked a bird up pretty bad and I had to beat it to death with a piece of firewood to put it out of it's misery. That's tha gangsta styles out west.
Anyway, my wife says that she will kill it (but I have to catch it).
So I enquire as to HOW she is going to kill it.
Her reply is that she will flush it down the toilet. I tell her to piss off, that it may get stuck down the pipe for half an hour before dying.
So she says that she will throw it in the fire!
And that ladies and gentlemen is the difference between a NZer and a Korean. A Korean will slap yo face. A westerner will lay a trap for you and kill yo ass anonymously.
And tomorrow I am buying a mouse trap.
I go running out to find out where she is and what has happened and she's discovered the mouse that we suspected was under the kitchen sink in the cupboard.
Now here's the difference. She tells me to get it. I tell her to forget about it and we can buy a trap tomorrow because I'm not catching it and killing it commando style. I'm a wuss. The only time I have killed an animal with my bare hands was a year or so ago when one of our cats fucked a bird up pretty bad and I had to beat it to death with a piece of firewood to put it out of it's misery. That's tha gangsta styles out west.
Anyway, my wife says that she will kill it (but I have to catch it).
So I enquire as to HOW she is going to kill it.
Her reply is that she will flush it down the toilet. I tell her to piss off, that it may get stuck down the pipe for half an hour before dying.
So she says that she will throw it in the fire!
And that ladies and gentlemen is the difference between a NZer and a Korean. A Korean will slap yo face. A westerner will lay a trap for you and kill yo ass anonymously.
And tomorrow I am buying a mouse trap.
Labels: kiwis, koreans, new zealanders, plagues of mice
