ISSUE
Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
The Social Development Minister spoke on radio about the number of people on welfare benefits in New Zealand. She mentioned that there was a need to “be careful we don’t fill up all the spaces with immigrants”.
This was a revelation as National has refused to act on the record levels of immigration, both permanent and temporary, while New Zealand First has pointed out the numbers are putting increased pressure on all our public services like hospitals and schools, and increasing demand for housing. There is also pressure on jobs. It’s not as though there is an abundance of jobs available in New Zealand.
Low-skilled jobs are being snapped up by international students, who National has allowed work permits, and record migrant numbers staying each year. However, we have an official unemployment rate of 140,000 and thousands on casual and part-time work.
New Zealand First has always believed in immigration that will benefit New Zealand.
Everyone can see the migrant workforce is growing rapidly. Service stations and supermarket counters are manned by foreign workers, thousands of foreign ‘construction’ workers have poured in for the Christchurch Rebuild, and the dairy industry has a sea of foreign employees.
New Zealand First believes it’s long since time to ‘take a breather’ from flooding the country with people and concentrate on getting New Zealanders into work and taking the heat out of the rental and home ownership market.
The-OECD warns we have an unmanaged flow of temporary workers, the biggest among 34 OECD countries, and it says it is potentially bad for New Zealanders’ job chances.
National has just opened the gates, picking the easy option to keep wages and conditions down.
At the same time National is trying to push people off benefits when the few jobs are snapped up by migrants, many of whom will accept any conditions, as has been revealed in Christchurch.
The government is doing little about job creation. The Minister claimed on radio that on the East Coast of the North Island, for example, it was a ‘pretty good lifestyle’. Obviously she is not working on job creation in the region.
We now know that the government understands that record immigration is causing problems. Their inaction is obviously about playing politics. The sad reality is that New Zealanders are the victims.
The Social Development Minister spoke on radio about the number of people on welfare benefits in New Zealand. She mentioned that there was a need to “be careful we don’t fill up all the spaces with immigrants”.
This was a revelation as National has refused to act on the record levels of...
The Social Development Minister spoke on radio about the number of people on welfare benefits in New Zealand. She mentioned that there was a need to “be careful we don’t fill up all the spaces with immigrants”.
This was a revelation as National has refused to act on the record levels of immigration, both permanent and temporary, while New Zealand First has pointed out the numbers are putting increased pressure on all our public services like hospitals and schools, and increasing demand for housing. There is also pressure on jobs. It’s not as though there is an abundance of jobs available in New Zealand.
Low-skilled jobs are being snapped up by international students, who National has allowed work permits, and record migrant numbers staying each year. However, we have an official unemployment rate of 140,000 and thousands on casual and part-time work.
New Zealand First has always believed in immigration that will benefit New Zealand.
Everyone can see the migrant workforce is growing rapidly. Service stations and supermarket counters are manned by foreign workers, thousands of foreign ‘construction’ workers have poured in for the Christchurch Rebuild, and the dairy industry has a sea of foreign employees.
New Zealand First believes it’s long since time to ‘take a breather’ from flooding the country with people and concentrate on getting New Zealanders into work and taking the heat out of the rental and home ownership market.
The-OECD warns we have an unmanaged flow of temporary workers, the biggest among 34 OECD countries, and it says it is potentially bad for New Zealanders’ job chances.
National has just opened the gates, picking the easy option to keep wages and conditions down.
At the same time National is trying to push people off benefits when the few jobs are snapped up by migrants, many of whom will accept any conditions, as has been revealed in Christchurch.
The government is doing little about job creation. The Minister claimed on radio that on the East Coast of the North Island, for example, it was a ‘pretty good lifestyle’. Obviously she is not working on job creation in the region.
We now know that the government understands that record immigration is causing problems. Their inaction is obviously about playing politics. The sad reality is that New Zealanders are the victims.
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