Former New Zealand Treasurer Michael Cullen.

In 2000, New Zealand Treasurer Michael Cullen suggested the creation of a common Australia-NZ citizenship.

He thought that, in the context of a single labour market, it made no sense for Australians and New Zealanders to see each other as ‘somehow outside’.

‘We may be reaching the stage in our relationship where the fiction of being foreigners in each other’s countries needs to In 2000, New Zealand Treasurer Michael Cullen suggested the creation of a common Australia-NZ citizenship be exposed.’

Might now be an opportune moment for the Turnbull Government to revive this idea?

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Australia and NZ forge closer ties (14 August 2000)

Michael Cullen’s Australian speech (9 July 2000)