Jack Tame
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255 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Jack Tame’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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per capita.
We love a per capita stat.
We've been on the way down for a while.
There was a war boom in that.
You're dead right in the 50s and 60s.
The easy one, the one where there's really obvious correlation is unemployment.
So every time unemployment goes up here, there's a lag of about a year or two and then a very similar line for the number of people going to Australia.
So at the moment, unemployment in New Zealand is 5.3, unemployment in Australia is 4.3.
And so you look at that and you're like, well, no wonder, right?
Their post-COVID years have been way better than our post-COVID years.
Better than anyone, it seems.
Yeah, they've kind of, again.
When you can dig stuff out of the ground, it makes a hell of a difference.
And so, yeah, so it's pretty standard that you would say.
I mean, COVID was a bit of an anomaly because you had the built-up demand as well.
You had all of these kids who'd been stuck in New Zealand for a couple of years who couldn't really travel, and then all of a sudden you open the gates.
So there was always going to be a bit of a surge then.
But if you look over time, especially in the last 25 years, the kind of surges we've had in unemployment have been matched about a year later by a surge in people going to Australia.
And you can kind of map it right across.
And, you know, if unemployment here is 5.3 right now, imagine what would have happened in New Zealand if we didn't have people going to Australia.
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