30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
Mar 9th 2007, 7:50 pm
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30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
Is this true? When I was told this yesterday I was gobsmacked 
thinking this figure was for the whole of Australia I asked the guy who told me to check it. This is an amazing statistic and if it's factual just serves to re-inforce our belief that we are making the right move.
thinking this figure was for the whole of Australia I asked the guy who told me to check it. This is an amazing statistic and if it's factual just serves to re-inforce our belief that we are making the right move.
Mar 9th 2007, 8:09 pm
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
Is this true? When I was told this yesterday I was gobsmacked thinking this figure was for the whole of Australia I asked the guy who told me to check it. This is an amazing statistic and if it's factual just serves to re-inforce our belief that we are making the right move.
thinking this figure was for the whole of Australia I asked the guy who told me to check it. This is an amazing statistic and if it's factual just serves to re-inforce our belief that we are making the right move.DIAC
Mar 9th 2007, 9:24 pm
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
Is this true? When I was told this yesterday I was gobsmacked thinking this figure was for the whole of Australia I asked the guy who told me to check it. This is an amazing statistic and if it's factual just serves to re-inforce our belief that we are making the right move.
thinking this figure was for the whole of Australia I asked the guy who told me to check it. This is an amazing statistic and if it's factual just serves to re-inforce our belief that we are making the right move.
Mar 9th 2007, 11:10 pm
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
Is this true? When I was told this yesterday I was gobsmacked thinking this figure was for the whole of Australia I asked the guy who told me to check it. This is an amazing statistic and if it's factual just serves to re-inforce our belief that we are making the right move.
thinking this figure was for the whole of Australia I asked the guy who told me to check it. This is an amazing statistic and if it's factual just serves to re-inforce our belief that we are making the right move.Good luck in finding a place in which you are happy to live.
Mar 10th 2007, 3:57 am
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
NZ is a complex area. When Kiwis enter Australia, they receive a "Special" Visa, that entitles then to stay in Australia indefinately. So, tourist and people who want to stay here forever get the same visa. Therefore, maybe that statistic suggest that 30,000 people who entered QLD were from NZ. But alot of them could have been tourist that would have left Australia a few weeks after arrival.
Mar 10th 2007, 4:17 am
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
I've been in Brisbane for 3 months now, I don't post a lot because I've finally found what I was looking 
My 3 years in NZ was good, but my 3 months here have been up to now far better and the wife and kids are not here yet.
Re the amount of Kiwi's here, well I'm shocked by how many there is and how there accents have changed to blend in more with the Ozzies. But you know the true amount when they win something! The other week when they won the cricket there seemed to be thousand of them
I do agree with Kiwichild, but for me Australia has certainly ticked all my boxes.
My 3 years in NZ was good, but my 3 months here have been up to now far better and the wife and kids are not here yet.
Re the amount of Kiwi's here, well I'm shocked by how many there is and how there accents have changed to blend in more with the Ozzies. But you know the true amount when they win something! The other week when they won the cricket there seemed to be thousand of them
I do agree with Kiwichild, but for me Australia has certainly ticked all my boxes.
Mar 10th 2007, 6:07 am
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
The figure normally quoted is 600 Kiwis leave New Zealand permanently every week. Of those, 400 move to Australia, the balance mainly move to the UK.
This would indicate a net migration NZ - Oz of 20,000 per year.
This is less than the number of immigrants entering NZ from countries such as China.
caveat - I can't be bothered looking these figures up to see how accurate they are but they are there or thereabouts.
Buzzy
This would indicate a net migration NZ - Oz of 20,000 per year.
This is less than the number of immigrants entering NZ from countries such as China.
caveat - I can't be bothered looking these figures up to see how accurate they are but they are there or thereabouts.
Buzzy
Mar 10th 2007, 7:55 am
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
Is this true? When I was told this yesterday I was gobsmacked thinking this figure was for the whole of Australia I asked the guy who told me to check it. This is an amazing statistic and if it's factual just serves to re-inforce our belief that we are making the right move.
thinking this figure was for the whole of Australia I asked the guy who told me to check it. This is an amazing statistic and if it's factual just serves to re-inforce our belief that we are making the right move.
Mar 10th 2007, 5:53 pm
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
No, don't worry...many consider that it's a third world country already. How exactly that could be defined is hard to say - child poverty, proportion of people drinking clean water, sufficient nutrition? all are issues in the country and very evident away from the major towns and cities.
I guess the figure of 30,000 may also include the number of kiwis migrating to Queensland from within Oz. The state does seem to be experiencing rapid growth though doesn't it.
I guess the figure of 30,000 may also include the number of kiwis migrating to Queensland from within Oz. The state does seem to be experiencing rapid growth though doesn't it.
Mar 10th 2007, 11:38 pm
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
I wish I'd stuck to my guns three years ago and come straight here instead of getting despondent in NZ
Mar 11th 2007, 11:27 am
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
I know the feeling 
Mar 12th 2007, 8:46 am
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
How long to go?
I'm not just saying this and I know I've only been in Brisbane a few months, but its bloody great. The good thing is because we left the UK 3 years ago we have not had the home sickness feeling and doubt we will now.
This place is ace, just can't wait for the wife to get here
just hope she likes the car and house I've bought her, oh and the boat I've bought for our Harry, when he's older he'll be able to drive it as well!
I'm not just saying this and I know I've only been in Brisbane a few months, but its bloody great. The good thing is because we left the UK 3 years ago we have not had the home sickness feeling and doubt we will now.
This place is ace, just can't wait for the wife to get here
just hope she likes the car and house I've bought her, oh and the boat I've bought for our Harry, when he's older he'll be able to drive it as well!
Mar 12th 2007, 12:05 pm
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Re: 30,000 New Zealanders a year move into Queensland?
Hopefully Oz, with vacations to NZ, will be the compromise I need.
Mar 12th 2007, 12:08 pm
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Mar 12th 2007, 2:54 pm
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