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Kate Hawkesby: Is the glow of NZ as a destination diminishing?
I don’t think the Prime Minister's assurances that New Zealand is a great place to live will have any sway with all the potential overseas workers we could have, who’re choosing to go elsewhere.
Prime Ministers have to be cheerleaders for their country, it’s part of the job description.
They also have to be relentlessly positive, as Ardern is, when it’s a country you’ve been governing for five years and its reputation as a great place has, under your government, gone backwards.
People used to want to come here, and did come here, in their droves - now, not so much. Just one solitary investor…
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