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Friends with benefits: The truth about the brain drain

By Pete McKenzie
New Zealand Listener·
15 mins to read

Australia’s welcome mat for Kiwis won’t spark a rush to the departure gate on its own, but we do need to make our own backyard more attractive, writes Pete McKenzie.

For a brief moment, there was cele­bration. A year after a sympathetic Labor government swept to power in Australia, New Zealand’s diplomats and politicians found success in their long campaign to secure a reliable path to citizenship for New Zealanders living across the Tasman.

Until the 1990s, New

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