Diving Duck & DTLP
You have hit the nail on the head. If Airways valued their people (you know WWW), then they would be busting a gut to keep them.
Instead they are happy to let very experienced Kiwis head overseas and try and replace them with controllers from the four corners of the earth. The local recruitment policy is such that young Kiwis are discouraged from considering ATC as a career. Airways then has to wonder why they have to investigate their own recruitment, training and retention problems. Hopefully SW's review will put them back on track.
In the meantime the "Sure Select" program, for recruiting, is being sold to all comers (including the ME) - even though it hasn't proven itself at home.