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May 20, 2009 3:34pm by David Farrar

New Australian Tourist Promo

Less than a minute, and worth watching.

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Grant Michael McKenna

This is from the Gruen Transfer- and it was last year. I cannot believe that I managed to find something funny on the internet before DPF had blogged about it! Gruen Transfer is well worth watching online on abc.net.au
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May 20, 2009 3:58pm
peterquixote

Australia is good all right,
we should become their eighth state,
better currency dudes,
better living, warmer, bigger, funnier,
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May 20, 2009 4:07pm
ISeeRed

Peter, we’re poorer than Tasmania. Why would Australia want us? Ask yourself why no Singaporean wants to rejoin Malaysia.
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May 20, 2009 4:22pm
bharmer

And could you please tell all those climate scientists about us getting warmer if we joined. It’s bloody freezing here today.
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May 20, 2009 4:45pm
Mike78

Is that 22 figure correct? Seems bloody high for tourists alone.
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May 20, 2009 5:04pm
Chthoniid

Seen it and blogged about it many months ago. Nice to see it making it to youtube for general consumption 🙂

I hate to bring this up, but most of the world can’t separate us. There’s more linguistic differences from the north to south of Australia than there is between Australia and NZ. There’s a few signature sounds that someone trained to spot, can separate us. The fush-and-chups or the sex for six has more to do with a Sydney-NZ distinction. But mostly, the accent is too close.

We share sports leagures, have fought every major war together and often in the same formations. We vote practically the same way on every interenational treaty. Our economy is hoplessly intertwined. We think and act so similarly overseas, foreigners can’t tell us apart. Our currency and interest rates closely follow Australia. We coluld very easily become part of Australia because we’re mostly there already.

The only real point of distinctiveness, is that NZ is the most Polynesian Western country in the world. This is a process that started early on with inter-marriage (sex taboos against inter-marriage were rare by the standards of Australia, South ASfrica and the US) and has continued with more and more Maori loan-words becoming common usage.
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May 20, 2009 5:14pm
davidp

Chthoniid>I hate to bring this up, but most of the world can’t separate us.

I’m mostly in favour of joining Australia, if they’d have us. Maybe with a different balance of state versus federal powers than is normal in Australia. We’ve seen closer integration of the two economies since CER was signed in the 80s so that the two economies track each other as you point out. Many multinationals base themselves, sensibly, on the Australian east coast and run NZ as a branch office. Including my own… I’m employed by an Australian registered company, even tho I live and work in Wellington. So Australian politics has a great deal of influence on the NZ economy and, therefore, everything else about Australia. But we get no say in that politics.

Joining Australia would give us some influence on decisions that effect us. There are obvious economy of scale benefits in terms of merging federal government activities, such as not needing to operate two sets of overseas embassies. There are massive benefits for business from not needing to register for GST, payroll, and pensions etc in both countries. And I think there are benefits for individuals… many (or even most) Kiwis will live and work in Australia at some stage, and it’d be nice if government pensions and benefits were integrated.

I can’t think of any downside. There is national identity, but Scots are patriotically Scottish within the UK, Bavarians are patriotically Bavarian within the BRD, and Catalonians are happy to identify themselves as being from Catalonia. I’m sure that we could arrange some sort of separate identity for sporting purposes.
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May 20, 2009 6:11pm
stephen

Pretty damn disturbing the laughs at the ’22 murders’ part.
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May 20, 2009 7:55pm
ISeeRed

We need pro-growth policies that will raise our standards of living here to match or beat Australia’s. The issue will then become moot. Oh wait, that might require a little hard work. Joining Australia is so much easier. All those in favour can take a flying leap onto the next flight to Seednay and “join” themselves.
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May 20, 2009 9:42pm
Murray

Peter q you’ve been a bit funny lately. I mean more so than usual.
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May 21, 2009 8:23am
Banana Llama

I’m not to keen on throwing our sovereignty away, but, all that wide open space though would be a good place to bury the treaty.
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May 21, 2009 8:30am

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