Brigid Magner Reviews Kerry Hines

The relationship between Australia and New Zealand has often been characterised as one of sibling rivalry, between an older and more established nation and a younger and less populous country. As the Honourable MP Phil Goff has commented, it contains 'the closeness and the rivalries, the expectations and the tensions this implies.'1 To stretch the sibling metaphor further, it seems that the older sibling looms large in the younger sibling's imagination but the interest is not always returned.