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Australia–New Zealand relations
Australia–New Zealand relations
, also referred to as
Trans-Tasman
relations
due to the countries being on opposite sides of the
Tasman Sea
, are extremely close with both sharing
British colonial heritage
and being part of the
Anglosphere
. New Zealand sent representatives to the
constitutional conventions
which led to the uniting of the six
Australian colonies
but opted not to join; still, in the
Boer War
and in World War I and World War II,
soldiers from New Zealand
fought
alongside Australians
. In recent years the
Closer Economic Relations
free trade agreement
and its predecessors have inspired everconverging
economic integration
. The
culture of Australia
does differ from the
culture of New Zealand
and there are sometimes differences of opinion which some have declared as symptomatic of
sibling rivalry
. This often centres upon sports such as rugby union or cricket or in commercial tensions such as those arising from the failure of
Ansett Australia
or those engendered by the formerly long-standing Australian ban on New Zealand apple imports.
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