RUTB,
You well know that prior to 1987 when Ansett Australia established Ansett NZ that Air NZ had a stranglehold on ALL pilot recruitment in the one major airline which was AirNZ. For more than 30 years prior to that Australian pilots were discriminated against by AirNZ whereas in Australia that field of employment was open and not only to kiwis.
Recent events including your industrial squabbles have imposed some variation to that. Your divided unions within AirNZ was one effect of that.
You have a conveniently short memory span or perhaps you were not around then. As I have indicated before kiwi's abuse of our good nature has extended far too long.
Skol give the example that ONE of his neighbours is an Australian on the dole. Compare that with the myriads of kiwis on the dole over here not to mention the rorting of our Medicare and immigration system.
I'll give ONE example of a kiwi over here to Skol's neighbour.
A B747 Captain who holds a Senior's card and is stupid enough to boast about it. The Senior's Card is for retired people on low income not in full time work not for a stingy rorting kiwi. Guess he also shoves your crummy coinage in our public phones just like the rest of your bunch.