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Speaker 1: More movement over the weekend in attracting the right people

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Speaker 1: into the country to fill labor gaps. This is the

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Speaker 1: Global Workforce VISA will target specialized workers over a three

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Speaker 1: year period, allowing them to basically come and go. Pig

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Speaker 1: seasonal VISA will focus on short term agri and agriculture

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Speaker 1: things like that for up to seven months. David Cooper

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Speaker 1: as the CEO director at to Malcolm Pacific Immigration and

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Speaker 1: is with It's David, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning mate, makes sense and fill the gaps absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Look the Minister of Immigration, Ericus Stanford, she's listened to

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Speaker 2: industry and she's nailed it. She solved a big problem.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't we solve a big problem before? Because what

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Speaker 1: she's done, although sensible, doesn't strike me as particularly complex

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Speaker 1: or is it.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not complex if you're listening. But if you're

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Speaker 2: not listening and you're doing what you think is right

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Speaker 2: and you're not listening to industry, then things don't get fixed.

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Speaker 2: And for the last eighteen months in the immigration space,

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Speaker 2: the Minister's been fixing all the problems.

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Speaker 1: The come and go aspect of it. Was that a

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Speaker 1: key the ability to move.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well look these particularly if you look at something

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Speaker 2: like the snow industry, for example, these are young people.

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Speaker 2: They come in, they do a season, and then they

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Speaker 2: head away. And that's no different to what kiwis do.

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Speaker 2: You go to Aspen, you go to Hofgarten, you'll hear

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Speaker 2: Kiwi's working on the ski slopes, right. Just what happens

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Speaker 2: in that particular industry.

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Speaker 1: The agri stuff is have we given up on the

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Speaker 1: unemployed in this country? We have more of than five

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Speaker 1: point two percent as of last week. Have we given

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Speaker 1: up on getting locals to do it? It's just too hard?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it's that, Mike. I think it's

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Speaker 2: the seasonal nature of the job. They're in places where

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Speaker 2: not a lot of Kewis particularly want to be. It's

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Speaker 2: messy work, it's not particularly pleasant and it's hard to

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Speaker 2: attract people. So that's why these employers are having to

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Speaker 2: bring people in from offshore.

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Speaker 1: What's your sense of demand? Are we still attractive?

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Speaker 2: Take a look at our Golden visa. We're up to

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Speaker 2: nearly two hundred and seventy applications and four months were

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Speaker 2: at over one point six billion dollars and four months

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Speaker 2: the best this visa ever did in the past was

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Speaker 2: a billion dollars a year. We are attractive, people want

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Speaker 2: to come here.

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Speaker 1: Good. Would it help if they could buy a house.

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Speaker 2: You bet. It would supercharge the interest in this visa.

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Speaker 2: And it wouldn't help just the interest, Mike. It would

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Speaker 2: get people committed because they'd spend time in our communities

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Speaker 2: and they'd do more for New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: More common sense, David, always enjoy your company, David Coober,

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Speaker 1: the CEO director of Melolm Pacific Immigration. If we can

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Speaker 1: get this sorted out the way he claims, we have

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Speaker 1: once again, you know, Erica Stamford strikes. I mean, how

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Speaker 1: many good op eds did she get herself last week

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Speaker 1: with the NCAA stuff. So she seems to have solved immigration.

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Speaker 1: If it's that easy and we have now done the

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Speaker 1: right thing, why is it taking us till twenty twenty five.

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