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Speaker 1: Winston's back banging is trusty old immigration drum election year.

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Speaker 1: So no surprise is there, nor should there be any

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Speaker 1: surprise though, with the rest of the coalition keen to

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Speaker 1: keep skilled workers in this country. It's what business wants,

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Speaker 1: and generally speaking, what business wants with a government right

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Speaker 1: of center it gets. So before we go barking mad

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Speaker 1: on migration, let's take a look at the facts, shall we.

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Speaker 1: Is this an OPRAH car competition, carte blanche residency lolly scramble. No,

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Speaker 1: the numbers somewhere between three and a half thousand and

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Speaker 1: nine thousand people, which barely touches the sides on our

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Speaker 1: four point three million working age population. Will they all

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Speaker 1: flood in from all corners of the earth. No, they're

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Speaker 1: already here. You have to be working here. In order

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Speaker 1: to qualify, you have to have proven yourself. You have

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Speaker 1: to be well paid, at least thirty six bucks an

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Speaker 1: hour qualified. This is not a low rent crowd coming in.

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Speaker 1: Is this a backdoor into Australia, Well it can be.

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Speaker 1: But to get through that door you first have to

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Speaker 1: become a citizen of New Zealand. Let's call that a

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Speaker 1: ten year process. Plus the Minister reckons a further four

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Speaker 1: across the ditch before you'll be a citizen there. So

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Speaker 1: if you're willing to spend fourteen years gaming assistant to

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Speaker 1: become a citizen of Australia, I think you probably deserve it.

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Speaker 1: Is this, as Winston Peters press release claim today, another

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Speaker 1: example of our proudweed country being fleeced by take all,

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Speaker 1: give nothing migrants. We train them up, he says, We

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Speaker 1: look after them and then they ditch us across the ditch. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: these people are already trained and experienced, and they will

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Speaker 1: pay taxes like the rest of us. Does he have

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Speaker 1: a point on the wider problem that we have with

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Speaker 1: educating and training people who are actually born here. Yes,

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Speaker 1: But as even he points out, governments of all stripes

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Speaker 1: have been trying to fix that problem for decades. The

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Speaker 1: fix remains elusive. But in the meantime, why punish decent

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Speaker 1: Kiwi businesses who've managed to find themselves a decent skilled worker.

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