CANBERRA, ACT, Sept. 3 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
It's a great pleasure to join you tonight and to welcome our distinguished Kiwi guests to our national capital.
This forum has always been defined by a spirit of mutual respect and shared affection.
It draws its enduring strength from the fact that the friendship between Australia and New Zealand feels so natural, and so comfortable.
That is true right across our parliaments, our business communities and our people.
One of the reasons so many of our citizens go across the Tasman and vice versa is because on either side of the ditch we feel at home.
All of this means that gatherings such as this one have a bigger task beyond promoting understa...