Actually Labour's criterion is being resident in NZ. You don't have to have permanent-resident status, or be a citizen. By my reading of Shearer's statements you just have to be "living in New Zealand". Or be Australian.
Which means under a Labour govt it will be legal for me to buy a house in New Zealand only in virtue of the fact that I am an Australian citizen. My New Zealand citizenship doesn't help. Does that strike anyone as retarded?
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