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As Daniel Hurst reported yesterday, trade minister Don Farrell caused a little ruckus in the senate yesterday when he said that New Zealand, and not the United States was Australia’s most trusted ally. Farrell said: I’m not sure that United States is our most trusted ally. I would have said New Zealand in the whole history of time. …But we are very close to the United States, I freely concede that. Now that has caused OUTRAGE among the Coalition who think that America should be number one.
But Australia and New Zealand have always been close allies and were before the US was in the picture. For starters, there is the whole Anzac thing – Australia New Zealand Army Corps, which was formed in Egypt in 1914. It was disbanded in 1916 and then re-established in 1941. As Anthony Albanese said in April 2023: We are absolutely close allies, and will remain that in perpetuity. I can’t imagine a circumstance where Australia and New Zealand aren’t the closest of friends.
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