UPDATED 7.23pm According to a survey released today, three out of ten kiwis living in Australia are unhappy about the racism and discrimination they face.

LISTEN ABOVE: Katherine Firkin from Channel Ten talks to Larry Williams about the survey

The Oz Kiwis group said the results of the survey released by the Scanlon Foundation and Monash University are not surprising and they have seen these feelings increase year after year.

Author of the survey Andrew Markus said more than 600 kiwis responded to the survey.

Mr Markus said they did a similar survey in 2013 and if anything, the number of people feeling discriminated against has gone up this time.

"They mention that yes, they do face prejudice and so some of the discriminations and negative attitudes that Australians, a minority of them, will have, Maori and others feel they also suffer from those discriminations."

Mr Markus also said despite paying taxes to the Australian Government, some New Zealanders aren't entitled to benefits, disability payments or given the chance to vote.

"New Zealanders in Australia see this, who have come on that pathway, and they say an Australian going to New Zealand doesn't have these impediments. You arrive in New Zealand and you do have overtime and the full benefits so it's that contrast."

Chairman Timothy Gassin said they often hear of people who have called immigration before moving and who have been told they can stay forever or get citizenship because they are Kiwi.

"They've come here and a few years down the track they've found that that's not the case. More and more people are finding their rights are not what they though they were. Of course, they've moved over, they've moved house, they've moved their jobs over here and set up life, and are suddenly finding the situation's not quite what they thought."

Mr Gassin said he is seeing these feelings reflected more and more every year from Kiwis living across the ditch, concerning a number of different issues.

"It's welfare, it's disability services, access to education, it's citizenship. I suppose it's also been the gradual growth of these things. People came on one understanding and slowly have seen their rights whittled away. It might be to do with government payments but also opportunities to take certain jobs."