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NZ’s brain drain neither unique nor necessarily terminal

OPINION: We don’t have the razzle-dazzle or the big bucks – but we can still compete for the world’s free-floaters.

NBR senior journalist Dita De Boni speaks with Calida Stuart-Menteath.

Dita De Boni Wed, 03 May 2023

There is nothing more boring or predictable than someone who has come back from a trip to Europe with plenty to say about New Zealand being an underfunded cultural wasteland; its people stingy, its food unpalatable, and its dreary autumn weather tiresome in the extreme.

Yet here I am, saying all

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Dita De Boni Wed, 03 May 2023
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