NEW Zealanders are so desperate to clear out of Queensland that they are dropping everything to go home.

An analysis of the latest immigration figures by The Sunday Mail shows if trends continue 2015 will be the first year where Australia will lose growing numbers of people to New Zealand. This is the year the Kiwi dollar is expected to reach parity with the Aussie dollar, the first time in decades.

Kiwis are fed up with being branded dole bludgers when in reality they get little government assistance in Australia.

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The Kiwi job market is picking up while Australia is losing its shine in sectors like mining.

“With various reciprocal agreements. Australia has over the years eroded many of the rights New Zealand citizens enjoyed in Australia arising out of (the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement) but New Zealand has not done that to Australian citizens,” a spokeswoman for Oz Kiwi said.

New Zealanders are unable to get a job with the defence forces, get a student loan, vote or get social security. Australians in New Zealand have access to these things after a certain length of time.

“Kiwis pay tax, set down their roots and bring up their families but seem to have few rights,” the spokeswoman said.

Vicky Rose, co-ordinator of Nerang Neighbourhood Centre, works closely with New Zealanders in crisis and she reports a 50 per cent increase in the past couple of years of people desperate to go home. “Some are literally just walking away from everything and getting on a plane,” she said.

In the 2014 December quarter Australia lost more than 3000 people, a turnaround from the September quarter when there was a 2800 gain.

Rhian Bambry moved back to New Zealand in October after eight years living on the Gold Coast. The decision to move was sparked when her tradie husband’s work was badly hit during the 2011 floods.

“When we applied for the natural disaster payout to help us get back on our feet we were turned down,” the mum-of-two said.

“We bought a house about 20 minutes from Christchurch and my husband is working on a project here. It’s working out really well.”