Max was earning more as a dishwasher in Australia than as a university-qualified environmental monitoring technician back home in New Zealand. He is among a record number of people leaving the country.
There’s a lot of things the Ardern government failed on. Cost of living, cost of housing, both to rent and to buy, child poverty, they all got measurably worse under her government.
She’s viewed far more favourably than she deserves to be, especially internationally where their failures didn’t make the news.
I mean, I think that’s the exact same thing that’s happened to every single English speaking country over the past 5-10 years (probably others but I’m only semi-familiar with English speaking ones.
There’s a lot of things the Ardern government failed on. Cost of living, cost of housing, both to rent and to buy, child poverty, they all got measurably worse under her government.
She’s viewed far more favourably than she deserves to be, especially internationally where their failures didn’t make the news.
I mean, I think that’s the exact same thing that’s happened to every single English speaking country over the past 5-10 years (probably others but I’m only semi-familiar with English speaking ones.