Just what NZ needed: a nobody PM interested mainly in 'wumen' and the environment and a 72 year old deputy! As for us upsetting them, NZ is a pissant country with nothing we want; especially their cast offs who prefer to live in Australia and whinge about everything.

New Zealand Australia tensions!? TWADDLE! Just the usual sh!te stirring crap this mendacious, disingenuous Author has as a hallmark of his literary style!? Apart from a very minor storm in a teacup? Nothing to see here!

Smile though your heart is aching,
smile even though it's breaking.
You'll get by, if you just smile,
through your tears of sadness.
Smile through your fears an gladness.
Then in a while,
the sun will come shining through,
for you, if you just smile.
Alan B.

Relax, nothing will change, dodgy goods from China, will continue to be laundered with "made in NZ" tags, and passed on to Australian suckers.

Chinese illegal immigrants will continue to be laundered in the same manner, with NZ citizenship, and flock in through Australia's back door immigration policy, sanctioned by all political parties, especially Labour and Liberal joint venture. There is no war, relax!

dd,

Thanks for the reminder about the Chinese vegetables posing as NZ products; I had forgotten that, and the fire blight apples that they sooked about to some unelected body in Europe. Birdseye is the only frozen food brand that is safe, and the last Australian producer left.

ttbn
We should be constantly talking up Chinese corruption in this Country. That land of bandy-legged dwarves, has usurped the Australian Politic without a word or a squeak. Masters at manipulation.

When the masters of political manipulation and money grabbing, meet the equal masters of greed, graft and corruption, our politicians, it can only go badly for Australia and Australians, ( whatever one of those is now)!

Birdseye Australia? Surely you don't mean that Nelson based food processor? Yes the Chinese product imported and relabelled is a problem, whether it comes from Tasmania or across the ditch?

Some folks will do anything for a quid, including selling out their own!

Interestingly, the cooking and chilling process is more economic as broad scale production if done with affordable energy!

And that's where the Kiwis with their large hydro schemes have the advantage, even as we allow privatisation and price gouging to hand every competitor for a quid, all the advantages!

What was it that PM Piggy Muldoon said? Ah yes, the exodus to Australia by kiwis was improving the IQ on both side of the ditch?

Were that not demonstrably so? We'd likely already have, walk away safe, molten salt, thorium power, a thriving car industry exporting to the world and be beating the pants of of our KIWI cousins/fellow ANZAC's!

We already excel at blame shifting and diabolically dithering! Now if you could bottle that? We'd be rolling in it! A la, Scrooge Mcduck.
Alan B.