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Immigration History from New Zealand to Victoria

Since New Zealand was declared a British colony in 1840 there has been an ongoing exchange of people across the Tasman Sea.

In the 1880s, a depression in New Zealand caused thousands of people to come to Victoria in search of work. By 1891, the population of New Zealand-born in Victoria was 12,026. Within a decade three thousand had left due to the Victorian depression of the 1890s, and the community did not resume its former size until the late 1960s.

A recession in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in an increase in migration to Australia. Migration was easy because New Zealanders were able to come to Australia without travel documents, and the arrangement was reciprocal. Although passports have been required between the two countries since 1982, the population of New Zealand-born Victorians continued to increase significantly in the following decades, particularly due to the New Zealand recession of the late 1990s. By that time, it was estimated that 10% of New Zealand’s population was living in Australia, and New Zealand had overtaken the British as the largest migrant group in Australia.

In 2016, 93,251 Victorians were New Zealand born. Most spoke English at home, while 1.5% spoke Maori. Migrants from New Zealand are largely Anglo-Celtic, and over half are Christian. The community largely lives in urban Melbourne, particularly in the local government areas of Casey and Boorondara.

42% of New Zealand-born Victorians work in professional or managerial roles; many others work in clerical, sales and service roles. The community is relatively young, and settlers are often motivated by career and personal opportunities. The Australian entertainment industry, for example, has attracted performers in popular music, opera, ballet, film and television, including the pop band Split Enz. The New Zealand community is united by the annual Maori Festival, held each weekend before Melbourne Cup.

Immigration History from New Zealand (Maori) to Victoria

Mai te wā ka whakapūakitia a Niu Tīreni, he whenua i haumarutia e Ingarangi i roto i ngā tau 1840, he nui ngā whānaungatanga ā iwi, e hāere tonu nei, e whakawhiti atu ana ki Te Moana o Te Tāhimana.

I roto i ngā tau 1880’s, ka tū te pāheketanga ki Niu Tīreni, ā, ka timataria e hia kē nei ngā mano rau tāngata ki te whakawhiti atu ki Wikitōria, mō te paraketu mahi nei te take. Nō te tau 1891, ko te taupori o ngā tāngata i whakawhānau i Niu Tīreni kei Wikitōria, kua eke ki te 12,026. I roto i te ngahurutanga, neke te toru mano tāngata i wehe atu ki runga i te pāheketanga i Wikitōria i te tau 1890’s, ā, kāre i piki te nui o te hāpori tae rānō ki ngā tau 1960’s.

He pāheketanga ohaoha i ngau kino nei a Niu Tīreni i roto i ngā tau 1960’s me ngā tau 1970’s, ko tōna huanga mai, ka kite i te pikitanga ake o te heke ki Ahitereiria. He waingōhia noki te hekenga ki reira, nā te mea, ka tāeatia katoatia ngā iwi o Niu Tīreni ki te hāere ki Ahitereiria, ā, kua kore e tono i a koe ngā tuhinga kāwanatanga i taua wa, i pēra noki mō te hunga e noho mai ana i Ahitereiria. Hākoa, ka hakamauhia tō Uruwhenua mai te tau 1982, ko te taupori o ngā tāngata o Niu Tīreni i whānau ki Wikitōria i kake tonu i tērā tekau tau, ā, e whai pānga ana ki te pāheketanga i Niu Tīreni i ngā tau 1990’s. Mai tērā wā, i eke atu ki te 10% o te taupori o Niu Tīreni e noho ana i Ahitereiria, ā, i hipa noa atu a Niu Tīreni i ngā tangata Ingarangi, ko rātou te iwi nui e noho ana ki Ahitereiria.

I te tau 2011, 80,236 ngā tāngata nō Wikitōria i whānau Niu Tīreni mai. Ko te nuinga he kōrero pākehā i te kāinga, ā, neke atu ki te 1.5% i kōrero i te reo māori. Ko te nuinga o te hunga heke mai i Niu Tīreni, ko ngā Anglo-Celtic, te nuinga o rātou he Karaitiana. Ko te nui o ēra tāngata kei te noho i Poi-Piripiri, pērā ki ngā hāpori o Casey me Boorondara.

42% o ngā Niu Tīreni i whānau i te kāinga kei Wikitōria e mahi ana ki roto i ngā tūranga mātanga, ētahi he kai-patopato, ētahi he mahi tauhokohoko, ā, ētahi e mahi Kai-tautoko ana. Na te mata tonu o te hāpori nei, ā, he hikaka nō te hunga i taetae mai ki reira ki te kimi mahi hei ōranga ma rātou. Ko tētahi tauria o tēnei, ko Te Ao Pūoro o Ahitereiria. He nui ngā kaiwhakangāhau, ngā kaiwaiata, ngā roopū hītengitengi, ngā kaiwhakaari, pouaka whakaata me ngā tū momo kai waiata katoa, pēra i a Split Enz. Ko te hāpori o Niu Tīreni e noho ana ki reira, tū kōtahi ana o rātou na whakaaro mō tō rātou Hui Taumāhekeheke Māori i a tau, i a tau, i tū i roto i ngā rā whakatā i mua i te Melbourne Cup. Ko te hāpori o Niu Tīreni e noho ana ki reira, tū kōtahi ana o rātou na whakaaro mō tō rātou Hui Taumāhekeheke Māori i a tau, i a tau, i tū i roto i ngā rā whakatā i mua i te Melbourne Cup.