The Americans kicked NZ out of ANZUS over the nuclear issue. The Australian government just went along with it, "our hands are tied".

and the Yanks pressured Australia to take action against NZ. Our shame not there's.

G'day there ONTHEBEACH...Once the lawyers get their grubby little fingers into anything, then we're all stuffed ! Our learned lawyer colleagues have the knack of being able to profit from the misery of others, and still sleep like a baby at night ?

Another shortcoming with the legal profession that I can see, only they have the professional capacity to take a relatively small problem, and later on, create an even bigger version of that problem. In order for them to achieve something as portentous as this, these learned silks must first, exercise the highest degree of gross incompetency and ineptitude, that one may ever hope to witness in their lifetime.!

And still we have these geriatric old justices, who continue to occupy the Bench for life, who will loudly pontificate endlessly, in order to extol the professionalism of their esteemed junior colleagues, for their intractable incompetence ! And for the life of me, I simply don't understand why !