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Our pols can learn a thing or two from the Kiwi cousins

17 February 2017

10:00 AM

17 February 2017

10:00 AM

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. 

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