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Ahead of today's formal talks between Prime Ministers Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern, Australia has welcomed New Zealand's decision to support its trade dispute with China over barley tariffs.

Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern will meet in person at the Australia-New Zealand Leaders Forum in Queenstown.

Re-engaging with the Pacific has been nominated by Ms Ardern as the issue she would most like to progress.

• Source:  1 NEWS An expert says the Foreign Minister’s comments about New Zealand wanting to take an increasingly independent stance on foreign policy, particularly on China, wasn’t a “problem”. But, her comments about being “uncomfortable” with expanding the Five Eyes alliance’s remit was “where things got a bit difficult”.  Your playlist will load after this a...

Jean-Christophe Bott/AP Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), talks to the media in Janurary. (file photo) New Zealand has not joined countries in decrying the difficulties faced by the World Health Organisation investigation into the origins of Covid-19 in China. The WHO released an inconclusive report into the possible origin of the Covid-19 virus on Tuesday, and the international bodys director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus​ said ...

HMNZS Te Kaha arrives back home in Devonport. The navy will not have war-making frigates until at least the end of 2021, as a troubled upgrade of the two combat vessels continues. Defence chief Air Marshal Kevin Short told a parliamentary select committee on Thursday that he was uncertain whether HMNZS Te Kaha would be fully operational by the end of 2021, having returned from being upgraded in Canada in December 2020. The two-decades-old Te Kaha and HMNZS Te Mana, the Navy’s chief combat ...

• Source:  AAP Kiwi international relations experts are aghast at the latest trans-Tasman war of words, which they say is proof of different values and a worsening relationship between Wellington and Canberra. Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern. Source: 1 NEWS Australias decision to strip citizenship from a dual Australian-New Zealand ...

Owning a home provides security that no amount of rental law cannot. The trouble is that house prices do not reflect the cost of owning a home. They reflect the cost of the expected medium-term capital gains (post bright-line). It wasnt a problem when they reflected the expected gains upon retirement and downsizing, but now who honestly expects to be in that house for thirty years? Or do they expect to flip it in ten years or so? Ad 1.2.1.1.2.1 Agree with the security bi...

Advertisement Officials in Canberra were left stunned recently after a senior New Zealand minister advised Australia to “show respect” and act more diplomatically toward China, following months of increasing tension between Canberra and Beijing and an agreement to upgrade the Free Trade Agreement between Wellington and Beijing. In an interview with CNBC, New Zealand’s trade minister, Damian O’Connor, said “I can’t speak for Australia and the way it runs its diplomatic relationships ...

TDB Recommends NewzEngine.com …there are 3 main domestic reasons for the desire to drop Australia in it with China. Australia is America’s stooge & 5 Eye failure to warn: There is a deep feeling that Australia is simply America’s stooge, this reached crescendo in the Bush era and there is a deep suspicion that Australia would knife us in a second if America asked them. So any attempt to ratchet up conflict by Australia with China is viewed as coming from Washington. Add to this the deep a...