05-07-2025, 05:38 PM
And yet, we have had that in place for all those years, with nary a squeak...
Says something nasty about us, doesn't it?
Just to stop perceived birth tourism. Primarily aimed at the Asian population. Round the same time as people were bleating about this country being a retirement dumping ground for the abandoned elderly of foreign visitors. And their making use of the way NZ residents got free entry to Oz...
We are a deeply xenophobic nation at heart.
Says something nasty about us, doesn't it?
Just to stop perceived birth tourism. Primarily aimed at the Asian population. Round the same time as people were bleating about this country being a retirement dumping ground for the abandoned elderly of foreign visitors. And their making use of the way NZ residents got free entry to Oz...
We are a deeply xenophobic nation at heart.