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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Michelle Duff in Wellington

‘Hollowing out’: New Zealand grapples with an uncertain future as record numbers leave

Harriet and Cameron Baker prepare to move to Perth with their son Teddy (2), Dunedin, New Zealand.
Harriet and Cameron Baker prepare to move to Perth with their son Teddy (2), Dunedin, New Zealand. Photograph: Derek Morrison/The Guardian

She considers herself a diehard South Island girl, but Harriet Baker, 33, won’t be raising her children in the city where she’s spent most of her life.

“When we bought our house I said, ‘You’ll be taking me out of here in a casket,” she says, of the Dunedin home she and husband Cameron Baker, 33, sold last month.

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