It has finally been scientifically proven that Rob Muldoon’s statement thirty years ago when questioned about increased levels of emigration from New Zealand to Australia, that these migrants “raised the average IQ of both countries”
A new study has confirmed a long-held Australian belief – less-skilled Kiwis have migrated there at a higher rate than skilled professionals.
The research, by Wellington demographer James Newell, has found New Zealand-born workers are 4.3 per cent of all machinery operators and drivers in Australia, and 3.4 per cent of all labourers, but only 2.4 per cent of professionals.
Maori are also more likely than non-Maori to have crossed the Tasman.
Another study, by Waikato University demographer Jacques Poot, says one in seven Maori now lives in Australia, compared with one in eight non-Maori New Zealanders.
There you go, two confirmations that by sending our unskilled thickies to Australia the average IQ rises on both countries.
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But Whale Muldoon has been so demonised over the years no one under forty would believe Muldoon said that.
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Some years ago Sydney Morning Herald ran an article about the number of Maoris in NSW jails. It was then pointed out that there were more Maori prison officers in NSW than Maori immates. End of matter.
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What….a lot of Maori prefer to leave NZ instead of being close to whanau and maoritanga, well blow me down. Must be because of those WMF, cant be because they prefer to just ‘get on with it’ can it?
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Yep, Because those things hold them back.
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A kiwi working as a labourer, machine operator, or driver in Australia is probably making more than most “professionals” in NZ.
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/6540257/nz-imp... is how its being painted here. Yet when you talk to ordinary aussies, they all know kiwi migrants by their work ethic. NZers of maori descent are generally viewed as hard workers. They might predominantly end up in lower skilled employment, but they have escaped the clutches of a victim culture, and can provide a better life for their own.
Maybe if the I am a victim culture got the arse and everyone had to work for themselves and their families, and not rely on handouts, NZ would move forward.
I’m not holding my breath over here, and with an ETS in place, I doubt the migration figures will ever reverse.
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Muldoon was obviously cut from the same cloth as the plagiarist Witi Smiler-Ihimaera. The quip belongs to Will Rogers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers_phenomen...
Funnily enough (alleged) humorist Tom Scott claimed (in the Herald) that Muldoon stole the comment from him.
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My brother has spent a lot of time in Oz in recent years..He says that Aussies don’t want to do physical work..He and his Maori son worked in a vinyard where the owner was about to sell the property because he could not get Aussie workers..last seasons Aboriginal workers had hardly done anything and left with the secateurs at the end of the season. It is a bit like NZ in the seventies when NZers did not want to work in factories. Physical work is hard work..if you were going to do this type of work why would you not do it in Aussie where the pay is so much higher? He also said NZ and Philipino workers are considered the hardest working migrants.
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