Snow season thaw for Aussie-Kiwi PM relations?

Snow season thaw for Aussie-Kiwi PM relations?
Last time they met, Jacinda Ardern gave ScoMo a scolding about '501' deportations.
Pattrick Smellie
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison will make his first international trip since closing Australian borders to covid-19 last year when he visits Queenstown on Sunday and Monday, May 30 and 31.He meets formally with his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern on the Monday in a resumption of the annual trans-Tasman Leaders’ Meeting, which had been postponed because both countries closed their borders to covid-19 14 months ago.The pair last met in Sydney in February 2020, when the NZ prime minister scolded Morrison for “testing th...

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