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Jibes across the Tasman

With just a stretch of sea dividing them and many, many thousands of New Zealanders and Australians living in each other’s countries, you’d think their leaders would get along, mostly. But animosities have been frequent. New Zealand’s truculent Robert Muldoon mightily annoyed his patrician, towering Australian counterpart of the early 1980s, Malcolm Fraser, though both were political conservatives.

Weary of Muldoon’s jibes

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