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Should NZ become part of Australia?
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25-08-2023, 09:38 AM
An outgoing MP thinks so!
I believe the idea was floated way back into making NZ a state of Australia prior to the signing of the treaty if I'm not mistaken.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...ory-speech

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25-08-2023, 10:27 AM
hmmm worst nightmare, wake up an Australian...
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25-08-2023, 11:05 AM
Nice place in parts, spoilt by all the Australians living there!
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25-08-2023, 11:27 AM (This post was last modified: 26-08-2023, 09:57 AM by nzoomed.)
I can see a few pros and cons, but the right time to have done it would have been prior to the signing of the treaty.
Our identity of what it means to be a kiwi would be erased overnight.

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25-08-2023, 12:42 PM
Nah, bad idea. Some years ago there was a series of documentaries looking at different ideas for the future - the only two I can recall were the Greener future & becoming part of Oz, which was the worst of them all with us becoming a retirement colony where higher education was only available for younger people by moving to Oz.

But the Greener one was one of the best possible futures.
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25-08-2023, 06:01 PM
Well, we wouldn't have to deal with the 501's anymore.
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25-08-2023, 06:13 PM
Yes please. Could we be part of Perth please? Save me heaps on airfares...

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25-08-2023, 06:53 PM (This post was last modified: 25-08-2023, 06:58 PM by R2x1.)
(25-08-2023, 10:27 AM)king1 Wrote: hmmm worst nightmare, wake up an Australian...
If you've woken up, you're not an Austr-flamin-alien!
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(25-08-2023, 06:13 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Yes please. Could we be part of Perth please? Save me heaps on airfares...

Probably a few too many fish-hooks; why not send teaching missionaries over there and educate them? Once they have completely reformed and are no longer a totally backward bunch, the country may well mirror/reverse as well and Perth will be on the right coast, much closer but still safely outside the moat.
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25-08-2023, 07:25 PM
(25-08-2023, 06:53 PM)R2x1 Wrote:
(25-08-2023, 10:27 AM)king1 Wrote: hmmm worst nightmare, wake up an Australian...
If you've woken up, you're not an Austr-flamin-alien!
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(25-08-2023, 06:13 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Yes please. Could we be part of Perth please? Save me heaps on airfares...

Probably a few too many fish-hooks; why not send teaching missionaries over there and educate them? Once they have completely reformed and are no longer a totally backward bunch, the country may well mirror/reverse as well and Perth will be on the right coast, much closer but still safely outside the moat.
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