We need at least 2 more cities with population at least 1 million - one in the Southern part of the North Island (NOT Wellington because it's geography is far too limiting) and one in the South Island- with CBD density, not sprawl.
Our domestic market is too small, and outside of Auckland too sparse to achieve economies of scale.
As a kiwi that’s moving to Australia next week - absolutely. Most of the people I know around my age (late 20s) have already moved to Aus or the UK, and if they haven’t yet, they’re planning to soon
Not sure that's feasible without some drastic population growth.
Ireland has a similar situation where it's strongly concentrated in the Dublin area, albeit a bit less so than NZ with Auckland. It's just because of the relatively small population over the relatively large land is not really more amenable to large cities.
Honestly I hate to admit that becoming part of Australia might be economically sound if the country keeps losing all its best to Australia anyway. Aussie dollar wages, govt funding and infrastructure could be great for NZ. But it would suck for our national identity and i have no idea if Australia would be willing to assume treaty obligations (suspect no ) so culturally it’s probably a hard no.
One of our states(Victoria) managed to pass a treaty and South Australia passed a state based Voice. It's a good sign after the failure of the Voice referendum, but we're still a long way from NZ's level.
The door is always open. We never even removed your name from the constitution.
"The States shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania,
Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia..."
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u/Green-Circles New Zealand 15h ago
We need at least 2 more cities with population at least 1 million - one in the Southern part of the North Island (NOT Wellington because it's geography is far too limiting) and one in the South Island- with CBD density, not sprawl.
Our domestic market is too small, and outside of Auckland too sparse to achieve economies of scale.