Such a policy would see current immigration numbers cut by about half - see Jacob Brown's Greens: Govt immigration curbs not enough. He recommended that the Labour Party go harder on the issue: "In the 2014 election Labour started talking about immigration - then backed away. This particular issue of North & South led the Spinoff's Duncan Greive to declare: Shock: Media currently hosting world's first non-racist immigration debate. The hardest reaction came from Giovanni Tiso - see: On the need for a sustainable immigration policy, and where I think you should stick it. And economist Michael Reddell has some sympathy with the Green's new policy, but argues the mechanics of it wouldn't work - see: Rethinking immigration policy: the Greens.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 20, 2016 02:26 UTC