Where have all the people gone?

Dear Editor, After more than three years in power can this Government outline how it is tackling the country’s most pressing issue over the past five years – depopulation; outward migration; movement of Cook Islanders to Australia or NZ? Just the other day it came to my attention that approximately a quarter of the voting population of a certain constituency on Rarotonga had migrated abroad.

Dear Editor, After more than three years in power can this Government outline how it is tackling the country’s most pressing issue over the past five years – depopulation; outward migration; movement of Cook Islanders to Australia or NZ? Just the other day it came to my attention that approximately a quarter of the voting population of a certain constituency on Rarotonga had migrated abroad.