Fed: Clark ashamed of number of Kiwis leaving for Aust

AAP General News (Australia)
02-27-2000
Fed: Clark ashamed of number of Kiwis leaving for Aust

CANBERRA, Feb 27 AAP - The number of New Zealanders departing for Australia each year
was shameful, NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.

She said 35,000 New Zealanders, the population of a NZ provincial city, left each year,
many of them highly skilled.

Ms Clark arrives in Australia on Wednesday for talks with the government expected to
cover striking a deal on Australia recouping up to $200 million spent on dole payments
to Kiwis.

A NZ foreign affairs briefing paper to Ms Clark's new Labour government referred to
severe …