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Ryan Bridge: Why does no one like New Zealand? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Why does no one like us New Zealand. Two numbers
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  Speaker 1: out yesterday that prove this, one eighty seven percent. We're
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  Speaker 1: still plateauing in the high eighties for tourism, that's on
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  Speaker 1: pre COVID levels. And number two fifty five thousand for
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  Speaker 1: the year to September that was our net migration loss
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  Speaker 1: of New Zealand citizens, which is a new record. Not
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  Speaker 1: only are we that unsexy to foreigners, they won't come
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  Speaker 1: here and have a piece, but our own people are
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  Speaker 1: off flirting up a storm with the likes of Australia.
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  Speaker 1: And they're not even flirting. It's not a weekend fling.
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  Speaker 1: They have left us. It's divorce. Sure, we're getting more
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  Speaker 1: people in terms of overall migration, meaning an overall net
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  Speaker 1: positive number. But next year, many economists predict, for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in a long time, excluding COVID, we'll hit
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  Speaker 1: net zero migration. And we need migrants to support our
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  Speaker 1: economy here, and we need tourists to support our economy
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  Speaker 1: here as well. So what's happened to us? Do we
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  Speaker 1: stop brushing our hair and cleaning our teeth? Do we
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  Speaker 1: look like some antipody and at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: world That you'd rather skip over. The Aussies are rebounding
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  Speaker 1: much better than us on tourism, and they're taking all
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  Speaker 1: of our young workers. And you look at all the
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  Speaker 1: places that are so overcrowded by tourists. They're introducing limits
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  Speaker 1: in Florence. Just yesterday they announced that they're banning key
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  Speaker 1: boxes to stop Airbnbs in their city. Rome, Amsterdam, Athens, Poquette,
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  Speaker 1: just to name a few. They're all doing similar things.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, we ranked one hundred and fifty seventh out
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  Speaker 1: of one hundred and eighty countries on growth and things
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  Speaker 1: haven't improved much there since we are a very expensive
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  Speaker 1: place to come and we are at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the world. The heart of the matter, though, is we've
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  Speaker 1: lost a bit of our mojo. Apart from cutting spending
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  Speaker 1: and focusing on the basics, which are important, what is
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  Speaker 1: this country's big plan to grow our economic future and fortunes?
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  Speaker 1: What industries are we targeting. Until we can answer that
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  Speaker 1: big question, we'll still look a little bit ugly to
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the world. For more from Early Edition
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