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Australia indicates progress on NZ taking refugees issue but Aotearoa stays quiet

Australian's Home Affairs essentially says there is an "in principle deal" - but the NZ government is staying mum about any significant progress on acceptance of a long standing offer to take 150 refugees each year.

Migration will not return to pre-COVID levels when NZ border reopens, Immigration Minister warns

At the start of 2020 there were still tens of thousands of people arriving. Then there was a big rush from people overseas to get home but more recently arrivals have slowed considerably. For the first time in a long time the number of New Zealanders who have arrived here outstripped the number of those who left. Take the six months last year between April and September when net migration was about 2500 - in any other year that would usually be about 20,000. An absolute catastrophic collapse, is how Infometrics senior economic Brad Olsen describes it. Prior to the pandemic, New Zealand s net migration was falling ever so slowly from about 64,000 in the middle of 2016, down to a broadly 50,000 per annum throughout 2019, the early stages of 2019, he says.

Red Cross calls on the NZ Government to meet the planned refugee quota of 1,500 people - New Zealand

Red Cross calls on the NZ Government to meet the planned refugee quota of 1,500 people Format Wellington, New Zealand - 5 February 2021 New Zealand Red Cross welcomes the recent announcement of resuming the refugee quota this is needed now more than ever and it will save lives. The plan to settle 210 people is a promising start and New Zealand Red Cross is hopeful the Government will now prioritise meeting its policy of settling 1,500 people annually. Since March 2020, when New Zealand borders closed, until today, 1,217 people due to come here haven t arrived, so we have a lot of catching up to do, says Rachel O Connor, New Zealand Red Cross General Manager Migration.

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