4 Jul 2022

Ardern in Melbourne for first trade mission to Aus since Covid

From Checkpoint, 5:29 pm on 4 July 2022

The Prime Minister has touched down in Melbourne, beginning a five day trip - a bid to reinvigorate the trans-Tasman bond as both countries re-open to the world.

It's the first trade mission to Australia since the Covid-19 pandemic - though Jacinda Ardern did hop across the ditch last month for a quick catch-up with Australia's newly elected PM Anthony Albanese.

The two leaders will meet again later this week - after a series of trade, tourism and business events first in both Melbourne and Sydney.

Our political reporter Anneke Smith is in Melbourne and joins Lisa Owen with the latest.