{"id":75008,"date":"2025-11-03T13:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/03\/new-zealand-economy-record-numbers-leave-why-people-choosing-australia"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:13:46","slug":"as-record-numbers-leave-new-zealand-why-are-most-people-choosing-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75008","title":{"rendered":"As record numbers leave New Zealand, why are most people choosing Australia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A weak economy is pushing more New Zealanders across the \u2018ditch\u2019 in hope of a better life \u2013 and higher wages<\/p>\n<p>When Hayden Fisher moved to Sydney from Wellington a year ago, the financial gains were immediate.<\/p>\n<p>In New Zealand, Fisher was \u201cputting groceries on Afterpay\u201d and would regularly spend half of his wages on the weekly food shop. In Australia, he\u2019s spending about a quarter of that amount.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/03\/new-zealand-economy-record-numbers-leave-why-people-choosing-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weak economy is pushing more New Zealanders across the \u2018ditch\u2019 in hope of a better life \u2013 and higher wagesWhen Hayden Fisher moved to Sydney from Wellington a year ago, the financial gains were immediate.In New Zealand, Fisher was \u201cputting groceries &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5044,"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":[41,43,56,706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-new-zealand","category-population"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75008","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\/5044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75009,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75008\/revisions\/75009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}