October 4, 2024 • 8 mins
Stats NZ has released the latest data from the Census, giving fresh insights into the lives of people across the country.
Kevin Milne has been taking a look at the latest numbers and there’s a couple things he found interesting, and some he wasn’t surprised by at all.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks AB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I love this show. I love this job Jack. I've
been to Diego Garcia. How about that top of the text, Jack,
I've been to Diego Garcia, albeit in the middle of
the night on a refueling stop, so pretty much in
my view, it was a typical US military base in
the middle of what seemed like a US town.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I mean, I still want to know more, and I'm
sure you haven't been lucky enough to see all parts
of Diego Garcia. I think it's like the if you
to drive around the whole atoll, it's about forty killing meters.
They reckon that it has some of the cleanest waters
in some of the coral reefs that are in best
condition on the planet in Diego Garcia. So still that
(00:54):
is that is remarkable. So thank you very much for that, Jack.
Maps are dying out. That being said, I love like
you browsing New Zealand maps. Yeah, I mean, I'm not
totally sure they're doing it. There's some some maps are
probably dying out right. Rod says he wants he's a
similar wonder lust. He wants to sit on a rock
paddling his feet in Tierra del Fuego, the in spot
of South America. Making plans is right. Thank you. Ninety
(01:16):
two ninety two is our text number. Kevin Milne is
all with us this morning killed her.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh, Jack, you've got to go to the Jaego. You've
got to be the fourth journalist. I just you've got
to do a documentary.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Do you know what? I just I can't. I don't
think it's a case of just simply like emailing the
UK Foreign Office or indeed Mauritius and saying, hey, I'm Jack,
I'm from New Zealand. I want to come to Diego Garcia.
I don't think that's necessarily gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You've got some remarkable contacts.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Around the place, not that remarkable, do you know, Kevin.
I did. I did once I was I was fortunate enough,
if that's the right term. I did go to Guantanamo
Bay with the military base at the end of Cuba, right,
and so I being to Cuba as a tourist, but
to go to the to go to Guantanamo Bay requires
a lot of paperwork and negotiations and that kind of thing.
(02:06):
That complicated enough. But there are gazillions of journalists who
have been able to go to Guantanamobay, and yeah, only
three apparently have made it to Diego Garcia over the.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Got that little sort of four runner that you gave
us before, was the script for you for the first
minute of your documentary.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe what I will do as I
will there is this this BBC reporter who has been
there recently and we had all these restrictions on a
reporting and what you could see and do and stuff.
So what I'll do is I'm going to put that
on our Facebook page so people can see it, because
I'm sure I'm not the only one who, you know,
sometimes fantasizes about reaching these remote parts of the earth.
(02:47):
But Kevin, you've been turning your attention to something else
this week. You've been running your eye over the latest
census results.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, it's almost interesting the census. I imagine that
you yourself would be a keen reader of census results. Ah,
A bit like that.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Absolutely love it. Love a lot of data dumped from
Statistics New Zealand. Nothing or excited.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I wasn't surprised that Wellington's cities has the largest proportion
of the rainbow community than anywhere else. Wellington's just that
sort of place, isn't it. I'd say it's the most
liberal city in the country and the most creative.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I was supposed to find Auckland city so far
down on that list. There's a higher proportion of rainbow
community in South waira Rapper than in Auckland. I suspect
that's because Auckland now has a huge non European New
Zealand community, and the rainbow community remains, I think more
(03:47):
hidden in those non European communities. Only half the people
living in Auckland, our biggest city, now identify as New
Zealand European. I find that a fantastic statistic. Really, more
Indians than Chinese now in New Zealand. It's going to
help our cricket. The Filipino population has gone up thirty
(04:10):
five thousand senses hopefully that means more wonderful nurses than
our hospital and our care facilities. Gisbon now got more
people identifying as Maori than New Zealand European fifty five
percent May fifty two percent European. I found that interesting
(04:31):
and I see there are more Greeks in Wellington than
anywhere else in the country. That may have always been
the case, which makes you wonder why it's so hard
to find a Greek restaurant in well Two thirds of
all New Zealand homes now have heat pumps. We should
have got out of the media jack and into heat pumps.
That was the business get into. I see in Auckland
(04:55):
heat pumps have finally caught on, from thirty nine percent
of all homes in twenty and eighteen to sixty six
percent now. Now is that because your old fashion and
open fires have been banned or because the weather's getting worse?
I don't know. Over half of New Zealand's population has
(05:15):
no religion. Given our population has recently seen large influxes
of non European New Zealanders very committed to religion, I
think it'd be interesting to know how many European New
Zealanders European New Zealanders have no religion. I reckon it'd
be far more than half. Finally, cigarettes makings half since
(05:42):
two thousand and thirteen, lobbyists and health professionals take a
bow time now surely got the squeeze on alcohol. You'll
agree with that.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, I mean I've long seen I think our attitudes
towards alcohol could still do with some improvement.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
The fascinating numbers. Ah, Kevin, there's one little data point
you haven't included there I was interested by. There are
still thirty one percent of New Zealand homes have a landline. Yes, yeah,
although on the Chathams it's more than seventy percent, because
which kind of makes sense. I can imagine there are
a few dead spots of cell phones on the Chathams.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, yeah, there'll all be people my age, aren't they
with the old still with the landline? Yeah? Yeah, but yeah,
I found every now and again I wish we still
had one, to be honest, do you, Oh yeah, yeah,
They're a lovely item. Really, I've still got am a
garage and I sold what do they call them, rotary?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Kids don't even know where to put the receiver down
on them anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
To be honest, I'm not that confident that I could
use one a bit.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Of a change. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No, those are remarkable numbers, and I love that the
Census has, you know, information on all those little points,
because it really does describe a change in New Zealand
was also interested that there are I think almost twice
as many people who identify as Hindu as do Muslim
in New Zealand, which so tells you so about something
about the demographics. Which, yeah, even though we are less
(07:10):
religious than ever before. Yeah, that was an interesting little point.
Like you say, it probably paints a picture of a
more diverse New Zealand. So thank you, Kevin. Kevin Milner
with us there. Thank you very much for your feedback. Jack.
I remember a nineteen nineties EV report on Diego Garcia.
The TV crew has led to a row of B
fifty two bombers on the runway. Then deadpan, the American
(07:32):
Military guide said, if the engines ever start up, the
world is in serious trouble. Dave has flipped me an email, Jack,
I'm listening from Queensland on iHeart this morning. Good hey, Dave,
thank you for that reed Diego Garcia. I'm ex Royal
New Zealand Navy. I've stopped there twice in my career
for refueling stops. Can't remember much about it. Both times
(07:53):
I was standing see emergency party, so we weren't allowed ashore.
Un lesst We've got a stand in but guys would
do PT presume that means physical training and go to
the US military shop, says Dave. This is it found
a solution. My solution is not to not to go
as a journalist, not to go as a tourist. My
solution is to join the Royal News Young Navy and
(08:14):
hope that at some point we go there on a
refueling stop. That is fascinating ninety two ninety two. If
you want to send us a message for more
Speaker 1 (08:20):
From Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live to News
Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks AB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I love this show. I love this job Jack. I've
been to Diego Garcia. How about that top of the text, Jack,
I've been to Diego Garcia, albeit in the middle of
the night on a refueling stop, so pretty much in
my view, it was a typical US military base in
the middle of what seemed like a US town.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I mean, I still want to know more, and I'm
sure you haven't been lucky enough to see all parts
of Diego Garcia. I think it's like the if you
to drive around the whole atoll, it's about forty killing meters.
They reckon that it has some of the cleanest waters
in some of the coral reefs that are in best
condition on the planet in Diego Garcia. So still that
(00:54):
is that is remarkable. So thank you very much for that, Jack.
Maps are dying out. That being said, I love like
you browsing New Zealand maps. Yeah, I mean, I'm not
totally sure they're doing it. There's some some maps are
probably dying out right. Rod says he wants he's a
similar wonder lust. He wants to sit on a rock
paddling his feet in Tierra del Fuego, the in spot
of South America. Making plans is right. Thank you. Ninety
(01:16):
two ninety two is our text number. Kevin Milne is
all with us this morning killed her.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh, Jack, you've got to go to the Jaego. You've
got to be the fourth journalist. I just you've got
to do a documentary.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Do you know what? I just I can't. I don't
think it's a case of just simply like emailing the
UK Foreign Office or indeed Mauritius and saying, hey, I'm Jack,
I'm from New Zealand. I want to come to Diego Garcia.
I don't think that's necessarily gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You've got some remarkable contacts.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Around the place, not that remarkable, do you know, Kevin.
I did. I did once I was I was fortunate enough,
if that's the right term. I did go to Guantanamo
Bay with the military base at the end of Cuba, right,
and so I being to Cuba as a tourist, but
to go to the to go to Guantanamo Bay requires
a lot of paperwork and negotiations and that kind of thing.
(02:06):
That complicated enough. But there are gazillions of journalists who
have been able to go to Guantanamobay, and yeah, only
three apparently have made it to Diego Garcia over the.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Got that little sort of four runner that you gave
us before, was the script for you for the first
minute of your documentary.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe what I will do as I
will there is this this BBC reporter who has been
there recently and we had all these restrictions on a
reporting and what you could see and do and stuff.
So what I'll do is I'm going to put that
on our Facebook page so people can see it, because
I'm sure I'm not the only one who, you know,
sometimes fantasizes about reaching these remote parts of the earth.
(02:47):
But Kevin, you've been turning your attention to something else
this week. You've been running your eye over the latest
census results.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, it's almost interesting the census. I imagine that
you yourself would be a keen reader of census results. Ah,
A bit like that.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Absolutely love it. Love a lot of data dumped from
Statistics New Zealand. Nothing or excited.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I wasn't surprised that Wellington's cities has the largest proportion
of the rainbow community than anywhere else. Wellington's just that
sort of place, isn't it. I'd say it's the most
liberal city in the country and the most creative.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I was supposed to find Auckland city so far
down on that list. There's a higher proportion of rainbow
community in South waira Rapper than in Auckland. I suspect
that's because Auckland now has a huge non European New
Zealand community, and the rainbow community remains, I think more
(03:47):
hidden in those non European communities. Only half the people
living in Auckland, our biggest city, now identify as New
Zealand European. I find that a fantastic statistic. Really, more
Indians than Chinese now in New Zealand. It's going to
help our cricket. The Filipino population has gone up thirty
(04:10):
five thousand senses hopefully that means more wonderful nurses than
our hospital and our care facilities. Gisbon now got more
people identifying as Maori than New Zealand European fifty five
percent May fifty two percent European. I found that interesting
(04:31):
and I see there are more Greeks in Wellington than
anywhere else in the country. That may have always been
the case, which makes you wonder why it's so hard
to find a Greek restaurant in well Two thirds of
all New Zealand homes now have heat pumps. We should
have got out of the media jack and into heat pumps.
That was the business get into. I see in Auckland
(04:55):
heat pumps have finally caught on, from thirty nine percent
of all homes in twenty and eighteen to sixty six
percent now. Now is that because your old fashion and
open fires have been banned or because the weather's getting worse?
I don't know. Over half of New Zealand's population has
(05:15):
no religion. Given our population has recently seen large influxes
of non European New Zealanders very committed to religion, I
think it'd be interesting to know how many European New
Zealanders European New Zealanders have no religion. I reckon it'd
be far more than half. Finally, cigarettes makings half since
(05:42):
two thousand and thirteen, lobbyists and health professionals take a
bow time now surely got the squeeze on alcohol. You'll
agree with that.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, I mean I've long seen I think our attitudes
towards alcohol could still do with some improvement.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
The fascinating numbers. Ah, Kevin, there's one little data point
you haven't included there I was interested by. There are
still thirty one percent of New Zealand homes have a landline. Yes, yeah,
although on the Chathams it's more than seventy percent, because
which kind of makes sense. I can imagine there are
a few dead spots of cell phones on the Chathams.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, yeah, there'll all be people my age, aren't they
with the old still with the landline? Yeah? Yeah, but yeah,
I found every now and again I wish we still
had one, to be honest, do you, Oh yeah, yeah,
They're a lovely item. Really, I've still got am a
garage and I sold what do they call them, rotary?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Kids don't even know where to put the receiver down
on them anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
To be honest, I'm not that confident that I could
use one a bit.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Of a change. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No, those are remarkable numbers, and I love that the
Census has, you know, information on all those little points,
because it really does describe a change in New Zealand
was also interested that there are I think almost twice
as many people who identify as Hindu as do Muslim
in New Zealand, which so tells you so about something
about the demographics. Which, yeah, even though we are less
(07:10):
religious than ever before. Yeah, that was an interesting little point.
Like you say, it probably paints a picture of a
more diverse New Zealand. So thank you, Kevin. Kevin Milner
with us there. Thank you very much for your feedback. Jack.
I remember a nineteen nineties EV report on Diego Garcia.
The TV crew has led to a row of B
fifty two bombers on the runway. Then deadpan, the American
(07:32):
Military guide said, if the engines ever start up, the
world is in serious trouble. Dave has flipped me an email, Jack,
I'm listening from Queensland on iHeart this morning. Good hey, Dave,
thank you for that reed Diego Garcia. I'm ex Royal
New Zealand Navy. I've stopped there twice in my career
for refueling stops. Can't remember much about it. Both times
(07:53):
I was standing see emergency party, so we weren't allowed ashore.
Un lesst We've got a stand in but guys would
do PT presume that means physical training and go to
the US military shop, says Dave. This is it found
a solution. My solution is not to not to go
as a journalist, not to go as a tourist. My
solution is to join the Royal News Young Navy and
(08:14):
hope that at some point we go there on a
refueling stop. That is fascinating ninety two ninety two. If
you want to send us a message for more
Speaker 1 (08:20):
From Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live to News
Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
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