Australia-New Zealand relations

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New Zealand Government (Beehive) building in Wellington.
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Australian Government Parliament of Australia building in Canberra.

The relationship between Australia and New Zealand is somewhat similar to that of other neighbouring countries with a countries with a shared British colonial heritage, such as Canada and the United States. Some have defined the relationship as less one of friendship than of brotherhood, beset by sibling rivalry.[1]

Relations between the two countries have been tense at times over relatively minor matters, such as sporting competitions involving rugby or cricket (for instance, the underarm delivery incident[2]), or commerce between the two countries (for example, Australia's anger over the Air New Zealand/Ansett Airlines fiasco[3]).

Despite this, relations between Australia and New Zealand are exceptionally close on both the national and interpersonal scales.[4] Former New Zealand Prime Minister Mike Moore declared that Australians and New Zealanders have more in common than New Yorkers and Californians. [5] Relations are especially close given the number of tourists that travel between the two countries and the (generally) common economics policy. Immigration, employment, and residency policies are also very liberal and generous between citizens of either nation, similar to a two-nation model European Union. The only major exception to these privileges is for individuals with outstanding warrants or criminal backgrounds deemed dangerous or undesirable for the migrant nation and its citizens.

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[edit] History

The modern nations of Australia and New Zealand are descended from British settler colonies established in the Australasian region in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although New Zealanders like to emphasise that their country was never a penal colony, neither were all the Australian colonies. In particular, South Australia was founded and settled in a similar manner to New Zealand, both being influenced by the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.[6] Both Australia and New Zealand experienced ongoing conflict with the indigenous populations - although this conflict took very different forms - and experienced nineteenth century gold rushes. During the nineteenth century there was extensive trade and travel between the colonies.[7]

While the colonies of Australia were federated together in 1901 as the Commonwealth of Australia,the more isolated colony of New Zealand developed into a separate dominion and eventually an independent country of its own,New Zealand was invited to join the Federation but declined . Although the two countries continued to co-operate politically, both sought closer relations with Britain, particularly in the area of trade. This was helped by the development of refrigerated shipping, which allowed New Zealand in particular to base its economy on the export of meat and dairy (both of which Australia had in abundance) to Britain.

In the 1908 London Olympics and the 1912 Stockholm Olympics Australia and New Zealand were represented by a unified team named "Australasia". In the precursor to the Empire (later Commonwealth) Games, the 1911 London "Festival of Empire", both Australia and New Zealand also fielded a unified Australasian team.

The quantity of trans-Tasman trade has increased by 9% per annum since the early 1980s[8], with the Closer Economic Relations free trade agreement of 1983 being a major turning point. This was partially a result of Britain joining the European Economic Community in the early 1970s, thus restricting the access of both countries to their biggest export market.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Military

Australia-New Zealand Memorial, Canberra: East or New Zealand side
Australia-New Zealand Memorial, Canberra: East or New Zealand side

In the early twentieth century, both countries were enthusiastic members of the British Empire and both sent soldiers to the Boer War, First World War and Second World War and to a lesser extent the Korean War and Vietnam War.

In the First World War, the soldiers of both countries were formed into the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs). Together Australia and New Zealand saw their first major military action in the Battle of Gallipoli, in which both (along with other allied nations) suffered major casualties. For many decades the battle was seen by both countries as the moment at which they came of age as nations[9][10]. It continues to be commemorated annually in both countries on Anzac Day, although since the 1960s there has been some questioning of the 'coming of age' idea[citation needed]. Despite this, Anzac Day has attracted increased numbers in recent years, in both Australia and New Zealand.

World War Two was a major turning point for both countries, as they realised that they could no longer rely on the protection of Britain[citation needed]. Australia was particularly struck by this realisation, as it came close to being invaded by Japan, and the city of Darwin was bombed and when Broome was attacked. Subsequently, both countries sought closer ties with the United States. This resulted in the ANZUS pact of 1951, in which Australia, New Zealand and the United States agreed to defend each other in the event of enemy attack. Although no such attack occurred until (arguably) September 11, 2001, New Zealand and Australia both contributed troops to the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Australia's contribution to the Vietnam War in particular was much larger than New Zealand's; while Australia introduced conscription,[11] New Zealand sent only a token force.[12] Australia has continued to be more committed to the American alliance, ANZUS, than New Zealand; although both countries felt considerable unease about American military policy in the 1980s, New Zealand angered the United States by refusing port access to nuclear ships from 1985 and in retaliation, the United States 'suspended' its obligations under the ANZUS treaty to New Zealand.[13] Australia has made a significant contribution to the Iraq War, while New Zealand's much smaller military contribution was limited to UN-authorised reconstruction tasks.[14]

In 2001 the Australia-New Zealand Memorial was opened by the prime ministers of both countries on ANZAC Parade, Canberra. The memorial commemorates the shared effort to achieve common goals in both peace and war.[15]

ANZAC Bridge in Sydney was given its current name on Remembrance Day in 1998 to honour the memory of the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) served in World War I. An Australian Flag flies atop the eastern pylon and a New Zealand Flag flies atop the western pylon. A bronze memorial statue of an Australian ANZAC soldier ("digger") holding a Lee Enfield rifle pointing down was placed on the western end of the bridge on ANZAC Day in 2000. A statue of a New Zealand solider was added to a plinth across the road from the Australian Digger, facing towards the east, and unveiled by Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark in the presence of Premier of New South Wales Morris Iemma on Sunday 27 April 2008.[16]

[edit] Intra-migration

Many people have emigrated from New Zealand to Australia, including the former Premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, comedian turned psychologist Pamela Stephenson and actor Russell Crowe. Australians who have emigrated to New Zealand include Michael Joseph Savage, the 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand, Russel Norman, co-leader of the Green Party, and Matt Robson, deputy leader of the Progressive Party.[17]

From 1973 the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement, an informal agreement between Australia and New Zealand, has allowed for the free movement of citizens of one nation to the other.

In recent decades, many New Zealanders have migrated to Australian cities such as Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.[18] The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement of 1973 means that, unlike citizens of other countries, New Zealand passport holders are issued with 'special category' visas on arrival in Australia, which allow them to live and work there. Although officially reciprocal, the traffic is to a large extent in one direction only; fewer Australians have chosen to live and work in New Zealand.[19]

Consequently, 'Kiwis' in Australia are accused of taking local jobs or living on Australian social welfare benefits, although since 2001, New Zealanders must now wait two years before they are eligible for such payments.[20] However, there are complaints in New Zealand that there is a brain drain to Australia.[21]

New Zealand Ministry of Education figures show the number of Australians at New Zealand tertiary institutions almost doubled from 1978 students in 1999 to 3916 in 2003. In 2004 more than 2700 Australians received student loans and 1220 a student allowance. Unlike other overseas students, Australians pay the same fees for higher education as New Zealanders and are eligible for student loans and allowances. New Zealand students are not treated on the same basis as Australian students in Australia.[22]

Persons born in New Zealand continue to be the second largest source of immigration to Australia, representing 11% of total permanent additions in 2005–06 and accounting for 2.3% of Australia's population at June 2006.[23]

[edit] Trading links

New Zealand's economic ties with Australia are strong, especially since the demise of Britain as a trading partner following its decision to join the then European Economic Community in 1973, and in the 1980s, the two countries concluded the Closer Economic Relations agreement, allowing each country access to the other's markets.

In 2005 and 2006 the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs inquired into the harmonisation of legal systems within Australia, and with New Zealand, with particular reference to those differences that have an impact on trade and commerce.[24] The Committee stated that the already close relationship between Australia and New Zealand should be closer still and that 'In this era of globalisation, it makes sense for Australia and New Zealand to look at moving closer together and further aligning their regulatory frameworks'. Key recommendations on the Australia-New Zealand relationship included:

  • Establishment of a trans-Tasman parliamentary committee to monitor legal harmonisation and examine options including closer association or union;
  • Pursuit of a common currency;
  • Offering New Zealand Ministers full membership of Australian ministerial councils;
  • Work to advance harmonisation of the two banking and telecommunications regulation frameworks.[25]

However, there are some trading issues between the countries, for example over the importation of apples. Australia has restricted the import of apples from New Zealand owing to Australian growers' fears of introducing fire blight disease. A ban on importation of New Zealand apples into Australia has been in place since 1921, following the discovery of fire blight in New Zealand in 1919. New Zealand authorities applied for re-admittance to the Australian market in 1986, 1989 and 1995, but the ban continued.[26] In 2002, the United States filed an action with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against Japan's restrictions on apple imports; New Zealand and Australia both joined the case as third parties.[27] After the WTO Compliance Panel ruled in favour of the U.S. in 2003 and again in 2005,[28] Japan opened its market to U.S. apples.[29] Further talks over Australia's import restrictions on apples from New Zealand failed, and New Zealand initiated WTO dispute resolution proceedings in 2007.[30][31]

[edit] Political union

The 1901 Australian Constitution included provisions to allow New Zealand to join Australia as its seventh state, even after the government of New Zealand had already decided against such a move.[dubious – discuss] Section 6 of the Preamble declares that:

'The States' shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called 'a State'.

One of the reasons that New Zealand chose not to join Australia was due to perceptions that the indigenous Māori population would suffer as a result.[32] At the time of Federation, Australia had a strict White Australia policy and indigenous Australians were not granted citizenship and the vote as early as the Māori in New Zealand, who had full citizenship, and universal suffrage since 1893.

Māori people had voting rights in Australia since 1902 as a result of the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902, part of the effort to allay New Zealand's concerns about joining the Federation.[33] Indigenous Australians did not have the vote until 1962. During the parliamentary debates over the Act, King O'Malley supported the inclusion of Māori, and the exclusion of Australian Aboriginals, in the franchise, arguing that "An aboriginal is not as intelligent as a Maori."[34]

From time to time the idea of joining Australia has been mooted, but has been ridiculed by New Zealanders. When Australia's former Liberal party leader, John Hewson, raised the issue in 2000, New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark remarked that he could "dream on".[35] A 2001 book by Australian academic Bob Catley, then at the University of Otago, titled Waltzing with Matilda: should New Zealand join Australia?, was described by New Zealand political commentator Colin James as "a book for Australians".[36]

Unlike Canadians and Americans, who share a land border, New Zealand and Australia are more than 1920 km (1200 miles) apart, comparable with the distance from England to Africa. Arguing against Australian statehood, New Zealand's Premier, Sir John Hall, remarked that there were "1200 reasons" not to join the federation.[1] The distance between Wellington, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia, is 1,378 miles (2,218 km), making it seem even more obvious of Hall's remark.

Both countries have contributed to the sporadic discussion on a Pacific Union, although that proposal would include a much wider range of member-states than just Australia and New Zealand.

While there is no prospect of political union now, there is still a great deal of similarity between the two cultures, with the differences often only obvious to Australians and New Zealanders themselves. However, in 2006 there was a recommendation from an Australian federal parliamentary committee that a full union should occur or Australia and New Zealand should at least have a single currency and more common markets.[37] New Zealand Government submissions to that committee concerning harmonisation of legal systems however noted

Differences between the legal systems of Australia and New Zealand are not a problem in themselves. The existence of such differences is the inevitable product of well-functioning democratic decision-making processes in each country, which reflect the preferences of stakeholders, and their effective voice in the law-making process.[38]

[edit] Membership of international organizations

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New Zealand and Australia are exclusive members of a collection of five countries who participate in the highly secretive ECHELON program. New Zealand has known listening posts at Waihopai and Tangimoana run by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) as part of the ECHELON spy network. Australia has a listening post at Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station at Geraldton, Western Australia run by staff from the American National Security Agency and the Australian Defence Signals Directorate. The ECHELON communications interception network includes the U.S., Britain and Canada as well as New Zealand and Australia and is known as the UKUSA Community.[39][40]

Other joint defence arrangements between New Zealand and Australia include the Five Power Defence Arrangements and ANZUS.

[edit] Similarities

The Commonwealth realms, shown in pink
The Commonwealth realms, shown in pink
The Commonwealth of Nations as of 2008
The Commonwealth of Nations as of 2008

Australia and New Zealand are both prosperous western democracies, and constitutional monarchies (with the same monarch) situated in the Oceania region. Both countries are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, a voluntary association of 53 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies.

New Zealand and Australia are characterised by political stability, relatively high incomes, egalitarian cultures, low levels of corruption, and a long tradition of representative democracy. Both cultures have high rates of home ownership[41] and value leisure time, especially sports and other outdoor pursuits[citation needed]. Although originally dominated by an Anglo-Celtic culture, both countries have become increasingly multi-cultural in the latter decades of the 20th century.

[edit] Differences

[edit] Founding settlers

Most of the colonies that later became Australia were set up as convict settlements, whilst New Zealand was settled by free settlers. The European population of Australia from early times contained a large Irish Catholic minority, many of whom were hostile to the British overclass, in comparison to New Zealand which was largely settled by English and Scots loyal to the British Crown. This resulted in some significant differences in attitude to authority; New Zealand never had an equivalent to the Eureka Stockade[citation needed] revolt, and republicanism has been less of an issue than in Australia. In this respect, as well as in stereotypes (see below), the differences between New Zealand and Australia resemble those between Canada and the United States, respectively.

[edit] Indigenous relations

Since the beginning of European settlement, one of the major differences between Australia and New Zealand has been in the area of race relations. In part, this originated with the very different cultures of Māori and Indigenous Australians. When Europeans arrived, Australian Aboriginal culture was ancient and had been more or less unchanged for centuries, while Māori culture was relatively young. This was perhaps the reason why Indigenous Australians showed no interest in European goods and were thus reluctant to trade or otherwise co-operate with Europeans[citation needed], while Māori enthusiastically adopted many European goods and ideas (including Christianity)[citation needed]. As a result, Māori were seen as intelligent and capable of civilisation, whereas Aborigines were widely seen as primitive and unable to learn.[citation needed] One result of this is that Māori gained voting rights in Australia six decades before Indigenous Australians (and indeed before any other non-white group). As James Belich points out, it was not the case that white New Zealanders were less racist than white Australians, but rather that Māori were seen by both groups as superior to most other 'coloured' peoples.[42]

Another difference was in the nature of early settlement. The first European settlements in Australia were penal colonies, and the brutality of these inevitably impacted on the indigenous population[citation needed]. The country was claimed by Britain by 'right of discovery' and was officially 'terra nullius' (empty land) – a term which did not deny the existence of Aborigines but did deny their right to the land. In New Zealand, by contrast, some of the earliest settlers were missionaries who sought to convert Māori and protect them from less moral settlers[citation needed]. By 1840, when the British Crown took possession of New Zealand, humanitarianism was a major force in Britain[citation needed]. This led to the creation of the Treaty of Waitangi, which transferred sovereignty from Māori to the Crown but also recognised Māori rights to their land and other properties and gave them the rights of British citizens. Although the Treaty was more or less ignored for most of the next 150 years, it did provide an important precedent, and would enable Māori to gain reparations and cultural recognition in the late twentieth century.

In both countries, there was major conflict between the races for much of the nineteenth century. In Australia this mainly took the form of skirmishes and raids, and was not widely considered to be a 'war'. In New Zealand, by contrast, much of the conflict involved armies and actual battles, which Māori won often enough to be considered as serious opponents. The participation by some Māori groups on the British side of the wars gained them several concessions from the colonial government, the most important being the four Māori seats in parliament.[citation needed] The wars also helped Māori unity and co-operation; the lack of a shared language made this difficult for Aborigines to achieve.[citation needed] However both peoples became an under-class in the nineteenth century: suffering discrimination, losing much of their land, and going into population decline. Disease and alcohol abuse became problems for both.[citation needed]

Male Māori land owners in New Zealand were allowed to vote from 1852 and full suffrage was granted to all Māori, including women, from 1893. In contrast, the situation in Australia was quite different. In 1901, the Constitution of Australia granted Aborigines the right to vote in Federal elections if their state granted them that right, however in practice that right was often illegally withheld from them. Australian Aborigines did not obtain universal suffrage until 1962.

From those times, both groups established political movements aimed at regaining lost land, restoring culture and cultural pride, and educating the populace about their past[citation needed]. The Māori protest movement has been more successful than that of the Aborigines, mostly due to the Treaty of Waitangi. However decisions such as Mabo and Wik have been important in Australia.

Today there is a greater acceptance of the Māori culture in New Zealand than there is of the Aboriginal culture in Australia. The Māori language is taught in many schools in New Zealand. The haka, a traditional Māori dance, is performed by both Māori and non-Māori in the All Blacks. No Aboriginal dance is performed by the Wallabies; in its place is often a rendition of "Waltzing Matilda", an iconic Australian song.

[edit] Views and stereotypes

[edit] Australian views of New Zealand

Australians tend to look upon New Zealand as quainter and more provincial than Australia[citation needed]; New Zealand has only about a fifth of the population and is even further geographically isolated than Australia. Comparisons are drawn between the state of Tasmania and New Zealand due to their similar climates.

Stereotypes focus on New Zealand as a pastoral land lacking in sophistication and without the modern cosmopolitan nature of contemporary Australia[citation needed]. New Zealand is inferred as lacking in economic opportunities due to significant numbers of New Zealand immigrants living in Australia. Australia outscores (Rank 3 – 0.957) New Zealand (Rank 20 – 0.936) on the Human Development Index.

New Zealand citizens are also seen as being productive workers who are seeking greater opportunity within Australia. Those who live in Australia have a higher labour-force participation rate, this being 76.3 per cent, compared with Australian born who have a workforce participation rate of 68.2 per cent[43].

[edit] New Zealand views of Australia

New Zealanders see Australia as larger, brasher and more obnoxious than their society[citation needed]. While conceding that Australia is bigger and wealthier, few New Zealanders view Australia as superior[citation needed]. New Zealanders point to the level of government and media corruption in their nearest neighbour (New Zealand outscores Australia in both the Corruption Perception Index and the Reporters without Borders Press Freedom Index).

New Zealanders regard Australians as loud and opinionated, but New Zealanders and Australians have defended one another in times of war, epitomised by the ANZAC tradition.

Like Australians, New Zealanders have a 'love-hate' relationship with the UK, although anti-English sentiment is not as strong, and republicanism is not as emotive an issue as it is in Australia.

Some of the banter between the two countries is typified by the response by the former New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon when questioned about increased levels of emigration to Australia, that these migrants "raised the average IQ of both countries".

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

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  • King, Michael (2003). The Penguin History of New Zealand. New Zealand: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143018674. 
  • Mein Smith, Philippa (2005). A Concise History of New Zealand. Australia: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521542286. 

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