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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 ad Victoria University’s Robert Ayson says the Foreign Minister shouldn’t...
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 body's director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the investigating team that travelled to Wuhan "expressed the difficulties they encountered in acce...