#new zealand

Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people. ↗

— Helen Clark

#borders #country #fortunately #gets #land

I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom. ↗

— Helen Clark

#become #century #i #i think #inevitable

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #building #china #connected #dynamic

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government. ↗

— Helen Clark

#australia #between #defense #difference #end

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. ↗

— Helen Clark

#certainly #democracy #fair #had #lifetime

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American. ↗

— Helen Clark

#course #new #new zealand #well #zealand

Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #each #frequently #in the past #ministers

Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting. ↗

— Helen Clark

#arrangement #australia #both #could #damage

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#human #million #new #new zealand #sheep

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#angeles #attack #australia #bubonic #continent