Larry Williams Drive

I like the idea of letting another 4 million people into New Zealand in the next ten years, that doesn’t scare me.  I know that’s going to scare a lot of people, so let’s talk about it. This is the suggestion from an economist called Dr Kirdan Lees who works for Sense Partners. Kirdan reckons that if New Zealand removed restrictions on immigration and aimed to rebuild the country like Australia and Canada are doing, we could add another 4 million people by 2032.  This would mean we’d be pushing 10 million people. What’s the problem with that?  Critics will say we don’t’ have the houses. That’s true. They’ll say we don’t’ have the schools and teachers and the roads to carry that many people. That’s true as well. But what’s also true is that we will not be able to build those houses and schools and roads quickly, unless we get the immigrants in to do the work. So it’s a chicken and egg situation.  You can’t house the immigrants, but you can’t build the houses without the immigrants. Here are two reasons we don’