The trouble with being “friends” with Australia is that it is always on their terms, says John Bishop. Last week’s comments from Aussie minister Peter Dutton about “taking the trash out”, referring to the New Zealand-born criminals they are sending back to us, are just the latest deliberate insult. Penny Bradfield/Auspic Jacinda Ardern and Scott Morrison last year, before what the New Zealand prime minister called ‘’an abdication of Australia’s responsibility’’. The trouble with being “friends” with Australia is that it is always on their terms. “Nothing stinks like an Aussie underarm,” said the T-shirt that followed, and Prime Minister Robert Muldoon said it was appropriate that the Australians were wearing yellow shirts.

Source: Stuff March 17, 2021 15:56 UTC