Why do so many New Zealanders live in Australia?

The grass is greener on the other side of the fence.” Australia has many more opportunities, and higher wages than New Zealand. read more

Apart from the obvious that Australia is better than New Zealand, the rest of the world is closer to Australia and Australia is warmer and Australia is bigger. New Zealand has more rugby players, but because only 15 of them can play for the all blacks, the rest have to find another team to join, so they try Australia. read more

when both NZ and Australia are consistently ranked as the best and most liveable places in the world in terms of education, health services, human development, employment opportunites, politcal stablilty etc. (just behind the Scandanavian countries. read more

By doing so, New Zealand citizens are considered to have applied for a visa and, subject to health or character considerations, will be granted an SCV. This visa is recorded electronically and the person's passport may be stamped, showing the date of arrival in Australia. read more