12 Mar 2018

Is the Trans-Tasman romance dead?

From Afternoons, 1:38 pm on 12 March 2018

Aussies and kiwis. We're cobbers, mates, brothers-in-arms and friendly rivals on the rugby field.

But lately you can just tell by the look in their eye that something's changed.

They're taking a hardline on New Zealand-born prisoners and sending them here, they wanted to start charging New Zealand tertiary students outrageous fees, and they don't want to give an old mate a helping hand in the form of social welfare.

Professor Kate Hunter is an historian and the director if the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University, she tells us why the relationship has soured. 

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