KiwiSaver caught in super cross-Tasman currents

KiwiSaver caught in super cross-Tasman currents
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David Chaplin
Almost 30,000 New Zealanders, net, decamped to the traditional economic dumping ground of Australia last year in what Statistics NZ notes was the highest trans-Tasman human export in more than a decade.But the 2024 numbers were not much worse than the 2023 data.“The net migration loss in 2024 was made up of 47,300 migrant departures to Australia and 17,300 migrant arrivals from Australia,” Stats NZ says in a release. “This compared with 46,000 migrant departures to Australia and 16,600 migrant arrivals from Australia in 2023.&...

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