Larry Williams Drive

This announcement out of Australia today could potentially change everything for Kiwis living over there.Aussie PM Anthony Albanese has announced that he’s prepared to make it easier for Kiwis to become citizens in Australia. This is the root of heaps of the problems that we have with the Aussies: the fact that Kiwis can’t become citizens easily.It’s why they don’t get welfare if they lose their jobs over there, even though they’ve paid their taxes, why they don’t get sickness benefits, why they can’t vote, why they haven’t automatically qualified for flood assistance in the past, and why they get deported. Because they’re bot citizens. And they’re not citizens because if Kiwis move over there, there is no way to become a citizen.The visa that the vast majority of Kiwis move over there under doesn’t allow that.And hasn’t since 2001.Obviously, the devil will be in the detail. There is none yet. They’re going to work it out with a view to implementing it by Anzac Day next year.And obviously, it’s not idiot-proo