No queues, instant approval if you're across the ditch
The New Zealanders are back. After the best part of a year of being unusually cold on the idea of moving across the Tasman, New Zealanders are heading west as they used to before the economic crisis. Typically measured in the thousands per month New Zealand migration slowed to just 1140 in the worst month of last year allowing China for the first time to displace our near neighbour as our biggest source of migrants. Read more »
Over the years I have heard many Yamba residents, who happen to enjoy cycling, express concerns over the fact that the only road between their town and Maclean is nigh on impassable for two-wheeled traffic and, that Yamba might as well be an island when it comes to bicycle travel.
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It was roomy here in December
Australians flooded departure lounges as never before during the summer holidays, heading overseas in unprecedented numbers.
New official figures show a record 731,000 of us left the country in December, an astonishing 3.3 per cent of the population or roughly 1 in every 30 Australians .
A record 141,000 of those trips were to New Zealand which has become by far our most important tourist destination. Read more »
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