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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Duncan Disorderly
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Screwing Kiwis and paying immigrants more suffocates economy

OPINION: Apart from NZ being outrageously expensive to live in, we’ve made it difficult and really costly for businesses to land migrant workers here.

NBR columnist Duncan Garner speaks with Calida Stuart-Menteath.

Duncan Garner Tue, 07 Mar 2023

No wonder the immigrants aren’t flocking into New Zealand.

Apart from it being an outrageously expensive place to live, we’ve made it difficult and really costly for businesses to land migrant workers here.

For a start we have priced ourselves high – meaning we only want the skilled

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