Today, Malcolm Turnbull visits New Zealand for his first leaders’ meeting with Kiwi Prime Minister Bill English. Trans-Tasman trade and whether there’s a future for the Trans-Pacific Partnership will be on the agenda.

When it comes to outstanding Kiwi products and services, however, there’s one Turnbull can get some useful pointers from English: the quality of Kiwi government and politics.

For well over a decade, since John Howard lost to Labor’s Kevin Rudd in 2007, Australia’s national government has been an awful mess.