PREVIEW: NEWZEALAND: Conversation with colleague Profesor Reuben Steff of Waikoto University re the immigration challenge that the Luxon government mesasures as "unsustainable."... 100,000 last year, mostly unskilled. More details tonight.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 April 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Bachelor, conversation with Ruben Steff, Professor Ruben Steff, he's in Hamilton, New Zealand, |
| 0:06.3 | teaches at Waikato University International Relations, commenting on immigration to New Zealand. |
| 0:13.4 | Surprising given that extreme distance |
| 0:17.5 | from North America and South America and Eurasia. |
| 0:21.2 | But Rubin reports that it's unsustainable at these numbers. |
| 0:25.0 | Here's Rubin-Step on immigration to New Zealand last year, and something is to be done by the |
| 0:30.5 | new government, the Luxembourg. |
| 0:33.2 | More of this later tonight, a report from New Zealand. |
| 0:36.5 | There was about 2.5% of our population, |
| 0:38.4 | as I understand it, came in as immigration last year. |
| 0:41.5 | And that is considered unsustainable. The government has just said that and |
| 0:44.4 | they're going to tighten visas, they're going to make it a bit harder to get short-term temporary |
| 0:50.4 | work permits and they want to target highly skilled, educated immigrants especially. |
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