Dr Oliver Hartwich: Isn’t it time for an ANZAC Common Market?

If you have ever attended an Australia-New Zealand business conference, you will know how predictable they have become. So much so, one could script them in advance: effusive declarations of being family, obligatory jokes about rugby and pavlova, followed by the same old gripes about mutual recognition and franking credits.

For all its comfortable friendliness, the Trans-Tasman relationship has become stagnant. But in today’s rapidly changing world, is ‘comfortably stagnant’ good enough?