MORE than 40,000 New Zealanders have been lured to Australia during the past year in what is the biggest exodus for a decade, new figures show.
The Dominion Post newspaper reported today that figures from Statistics New Zealand show the number of New Zealanders moving to Australia was up almost 6200 on the previous year.
During the same period only about 13,000 Australians migrated across the Tasman, leaving a net loss of about 26,500 from New Zealand.