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Heather du Plessis-Allan: The NSW Government is coming for our Kiwi cops

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We've got to talk about the brain drain that’s going on.Today, the NSW Government has announced it is going to come for our Kiwi cops. It's got a shortage of 1500 police, and they're extremely worried about it. So the Chris Minns Government has announced it’s going to slash red tape, cut down the course time required by more than half and fast-track Kiwi cops into their force. And Kiwi cops will leave. Because unless they win the pay arbitration they’re about to go into, they will take a pay offer from our Government that we can see is pretty poor. So they'll all head overseas for better pay.These are people we can’t afford to lose. Because we need police too, we're short on police as well. And we are losing a lot of these kinds of people. The immigration figures out yesterday were pretty rough. In just a year, we’ve lost a net 52,500 Kiwis - mostly to Australia. What we're talking about here is that these are our best and brightest. They are our skilled workers choosing to leave the country.Now, part of the