{"id":10787,"date":"2019-11-05T20:10:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/new-zealands-migrant-boom-is-good-news-for-maori-it-empowers-us"},"modified":"2019-11-05T20:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:10:48","slug":"new-zealands-migrant-boom-is-good-news-for-mori-it-empowers-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10787","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s migrant boom is good news for M&#257;ori. It empowers us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As 5 million approaches, it\u2019s thanks to the Treaty of Waitangi, that multiculturalism will succeed<\/p>\n<p>We are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/au\/contribute?acquisitionData=%7B%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_EDITORIAL_LINK%22%2C%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22campaignCode%22%3A%22AUS_EDITORIAL%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22All-blacks_pool_games%22%2C%22referrerPageviewId%22%3A%22k2fujzce66j1t7is01pb%22%2C%22referrerUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsport%2F2019%2Fnov%2F01%2Fsonny-bill-williams-departs-as-he-arrived-dividing-opinion-like-no-other-all-black%22%7D&amp;INTCMP=AUS_EDITORIAL\">Please help us by supporting our independent journalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In April 2003, the year New Zealand\u2019s population hit 4 million, statisticians were predicting the country would hit at 4.8 million people in 2046. As in Europe and North America the country\u2019s birth rate was falling, and no one quite knew whether mass immigration would \u2013 or even could \u2013 continue at pace. Instead, the pressing concern at the time was how to reverse the brain drain.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-2000s almost 40,000 New Zealanders were upping sticks each year. Miners and truck drivers were packing their bags for Queensland\u2019s mining boom. Bankers and lawyers were taking up plum jobs in London. Teachers, nurses, and other public servants were comparing what they made in Wellington with what they might make in Washington or Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/new-zealands-migrant-boom-is-good-news-for-maori-it-empowers-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 5 million approaches, it\u2019s thanks to the Treaty of Waitangi, that multiculturalism will succeedWe are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. Please help us by supporting our independent journalismIn April 2003, the year New Zealand\u2019s population hit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,491,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-migration","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10789,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions\/10789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}