The High Road

What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand (Quarterly Essay 80)

Laura Tingle

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English

Black Inc
30 November 2020

Comparative politics; Australian Society

"What can we learn from our Trans-Tasman neighbours?

Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And now, in the wake of COVID-19, is it time to change that?

In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, character and two nations in transition. In the past half-century, both countries have remade themselves amid shifting economic fortunes. New Zealand has been held up as a model for everything from privatisation to the conduct of politics to the response to COVID. Tingle considers how both countries have been governed, and the different way each has dealt with its colonial legacy. What could Australia learn from New Zealand? And New Zealand from Australia?

This is a perceptive, often amusing introduction to two countries alike in some ways, but quite different in others.

""Jacinda Ardern is not the first reason we have had to look across the Tasman and wonder whether there is another way of doing things . . . New Zealand - perhaps the only place in the world that has suffered isolation and the tyranny of distance more than Australia - has repeatedly jumped out of its comfort zone and changed direction harder, faster and for longer than Australia has done in the past half-century."" Laura Tingle, The High Road"

By: Laura Tingle
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 168mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 237g
ISBN: 9781760642228
ISBN 10: 1760642223
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 30 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laura Tingle is chief political correspondent for ABC-TV's 7.30. She won the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism in 2004, and Walkley awards in 2005 and 2011. She is the author of Chasing the Future- Recession, Recovery and the New Politics in Australia and three acclaimed Quarterly Essays, Great Expectations, Political Amnesia and Follow the Leader.