Prime Minister John Key likened the Australian coalition's prospects for a win in the election to the Rugby World Cup. Mr Key said he counted Liberal leader and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as a friend and a good Prime Minister and hoped he would win. "Winning ugly is better than losing tidy," he said on TVNZ's Q and A this morning. He said even if the result was very tight, Governments had to get on an govern. "It matters to New Zealanders so we want Australia to perform strongly."

Source: New Zealand Herald July 02, 2016 22:29 UTC