Australia’s kiwi exodus continues to moderate

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Statistics New Zealand has released its permanent & long-term migration figures for February 2017, which revealed that annual net permanent and long-term migration into New Zealand hit another all-time high 71,333 people:

According to Statistics New Zealand, “about a third of all migrant arrivals for the year were people coming to New Zealand on work visas”:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.