National leader Judith Collins has taken aim at Tasmania, calling it Australia's "poor cousin" during the penultimate day of election campaigning. In another off-script moment of Collins' campaign, the leader of the Opposition sledged Australia's smallest state on Thursday, saying she wouldn't want New Zealand to be like it. "We don't want to be the poor cousin of the rest of Australia as such," she said on the campaign trail in Auckland. It’s the second last day of NZ’s election campaign and Judith Collins has gone off script by taking a whack at ... Says she doesn’t want NZ to end up like the “poor cousin” like Tasmania is of Australia.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 15, 2020 02:29 UTC