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Why are so many New Zealanders moving to Austrailia?

Sun, sand, money and sport, Australia is the place to be, but why are so many NewZealanders moving there? With the Ausralian dollar so high and the annual pay check so much higher, its not hard to see why so many New Zealanders are miagrating to Auzzie. A lot of New Zealanders see Ausralia as a golden ticket to a better carear and a more stable life, and wealth. Australia is widley known as the hottest non-tropical country in the world, with the average temperature in Adelade 32° in the summer and 16° in the winter. Australia is now known as the track cycling capital of the world, over the last few years australia has been producing the best track cyclists in both sprint and endurance events winning multipal world titles and a stack of commonwelth gold.

According to Australian Immigration at 30^th June 2010, an estimated 566,815 New Zealand citizens were present in Australia. According to government statistics “a net migration loss of one New Zealand resident every 33 minutes and 36 seconds”. With this imformation one can estimate that there are now 580 thousand New Zealanders who have miagrated to Australia. This number is startalling when New Zealand only has a population on 4.4 million.

New Zealand tax were cut on the 1^st October 2010. This has helped increase New Zealanders take home pay but the Nzier Authoritive analysis states that this will not be enough to stem the flow of kiwi’s miagrating to Australia, but, it is a step in the right direction. Nzier.org.nz provides some startaling figures for the pay differences between the 2 countries. The pay differences between forestry and mining: 117% above NZ, construction: 58% above NZ, retail trade: 45% above NZ, and there are lots more, along with this these jobs pay percentage are on a staedy increase, this is because of Australia’s high dollar. Australia’s dollar is now on the forefront of being one of the top dollars in the ‘western world’, now being at .76 to the New Zealand dollar, this is at a very high rate and only looks to be increasing in strenght, even surpassing the American dollar, which is at .81 to the NZ dollar.   

Ofcourse Austrlia is now a massive forefront for sport, and if there is one sport that is hugely successful, it has to be cycling. Cycling in Australia is becoming hugely popular aswell as very successful, Australia has been the nation to beat at track world cups and world champs for the past few years. Australia are producing the best junoir cyclists in the world, they have had junoir riders break the 3000m world individual persuit record, on more then one occasion. Australia has won a major percentage of gold medals at the world champs, they won 41% of all world titles at the junior worlds in 2010, and have won 42% of world titles at the world champs in 2011, numbers like these are extreme and have not been produced like this concistantly for a long time. Also to the extent of aAustralias cycling greatness they have had there greatest individual persuiter break the 4000m world record, a record which was said to be unbreakable because of the conditions of which it was set under.

America is the land of the free, Japan the land of the rising sun, and Austalia? Well Australia is the land of the worker, it is quickly becoming one of the biggest economic countries in the world, and is right at our doorstep. A kiwi moving to Australia means a better lifestyle, better job security and a higher percentage of pay, just ask Mike and Janeen Karsten who moved from Invercargill to Perth 3 years ago, “better wages across the ditch was to good to turn down”. Mike is now earning more the double his NZ wage, working as a commercial airline pilot. Australia for me is the pure perfection, it has sun, sand, and is leading the way for track cycling, aswell as offering a better job and better wages for parents.