New Zealand's net loss of people to Australia has averaged almost 25,000 a year in the three years since Prime Minister John Key was elected - a higher net loss than the average under any previous government.
Almost 113,000 people moved to Australia on a permanent or long-term basis between the end of November 2008, when Mr Key was elected, to the end of September this year.
Almost half of the net loss in the past year was of people in their twenties and thirties, leaving a big hole in New Zealand's working-agedpopulation.
"The impact in terms of accelerated ageing of the NZ resident population and on supply of skilled labour and talent is likely to be a continuing issue," Dr Newell said.
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