Skip to main content

Story: Kiwis overseas

Makeup in Melbourne

Image
Makeup in Melbourne

Kirsten Veysey moved to Melbourne to become a freelance makeup artist in 1989. For the majority of New Zealanders the first step overseas is the three-hour flight across the Tasman Sea to the ‘lucky country’, Australia. While younger people go in search of work, many retired people leave for the warmer climate.

Using this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP NZ-Social-New Zealanders Overseas-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

All images & media in this story

How to cite this page

Carl Walrond, Kiwis overseas – Migration to Australia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/888/makeup-in-melbourne (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 4 March 2009, updated 17 September 2014.