The article explains why Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, votes almost identically to the rest of the country, defying the typical urban-rural political divide and highlighting factors like zoning, gentrification, and party origins.
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A new insight into the demographic makeup of our country. So we've got fewer births, aging population, not sure that's new. We've got a reliance on immigration to... to sustain the workforce. Fertility is at 1.55, which is a record low, and the labour shortage in 2045 we're going to be short of a quarter of a million people, which presumably we're going to have to import. In Auckland, New Zealand Europeans are going to drop below 50% in a couple of years' time. Anyway, Paul Spoonley these days is a senior fellow at Koitu, and is with us. Paul, how are you?
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Europeans projected to fall below 50% in years
Paul Spoonley: Emeritus Professor and Koi Tū Centre Senior Fellow on the report predicting a shift in New Zealand's population demographicsSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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