{"id":25833,"date":"2026-06-06T05:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/25833\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:16:11","slug":"australia-nz-relationship-should-never-be-taken-for-granted-christopher-luxon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/25833\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia-NZ relationship should ‘never be taken for granted’, Christopher Luxon says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPrime Minister Christopher Luxon (R) with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Queenstown in 2025.
\nPhoto: RNZ\/Katie Todd\n<\/p>\n

Anthony Albanese says New Zealand and Australia are more than just neighbours, they’re “family” and Christopher Luxon says the relationship should “never be taken for granted”.<\/p>\n

The Australian and New Zealand prime ministers met on Friday night<\/a> in Noosa ahead of the annual leader’s meeting<\/a> taking place on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Albanese discussed advancing the economic relationship between the two countries, in order to make it “seamless”.<\/p>\n

He also discussed the need to work together in a “volatile world”, where a war neither of them were part of was still having an impact.<\/p>\n

Albanese said norms such as trade being a good thing, or that globalisation brought benefits and people out of poverty, couldn’t be taken for granted anymore.<\/p>\n

“We need to work on them, and we need to work together.”<\/p>\n

Luxon said the world was at an “inflection point”, and moving from one ordered by rules to one ordered by power.<\/p>\n

He said it was an opportunity for two countries “like us” working so closely together with other like-minded countries.<\/p>\n

“We are in a place where we are strategically aligned, we have very good alignment on our values, and very good alignment on our interests.”<\/p>\n

Luxon said the relationship was one of family and therefore “we should never take it for granted”.<\/p>\n

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