New lamb ad urges peace treaty with Kiwis

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New lamb ad urges peace treaty with Kiwis

5 yrs ago

The latest Australia Day advertising campaign from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) urges Australians and Kiwis to unite over their love of lamb.

The ad suggests that the Kiwis are doing a better job of being Australia than we are currently managing, lambasting our rotating run of Prime Ministers.

The clever campaign highlights the fact that Australia very nearly included New Zealand in its constitution, but the Kiwis knocked back the opportunity.

Watch the ad here:

What do you think? Would Australia benefit from an alliance with New Zealand?

12 comments

Sophie

5 yrs ago

Australia would certainly benefit from an alliance with New Zealand..but..would New Zealand benefit from an alliance with Australia? Not in my opinion..

We are not as stable as NZ politically..and our lamb is not as delicious as New Zealand's (IMO)...

Adrianus

5 yrs ago

Voting in NZ is not compulsory which could account for less trible warfare. The kiwis have cleverly had a company tax rate wich is lower than that of Australian Companies.

wombatwyn

5 yrs ago

Took the words right out of my mouth. Totally agree Sophie. Can't see any benefit for NZ but we sure could use their Prime Minister.

Karl Marx

5 yrs ago

We could also use their universal pension wombatwym

Adrianus

5 yrs ago

Yes I suppose she is a big improvement on Bill Shorten.

RnR

5 yrs ago

:) Like the great one-liners in the ad ... they manage to 'take the p***' out of so many current issues LOL.

Daisy

5 yrs ago

Ha ha, lots of laughs in that ad. Enjoyable!

ex PS

5 yrs ago

I can't really see why New Zealand would want to take us on, it would surely damage their international reputation. But I suppose we could be bought up to their standard, given time and training.

Leonie

5 yrs ago

Ha ha, you can share our prime land and we'll share your Prime Minister. Now that sounds like a good deal. LOL

KSS

5 yrs ago

If it's so much better over there, why are half of THEM over here?

Maybe this is why:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12190399

Karl Marx

5 yrs ago

Yep, let's become part of NZ, most of them are over here anyway. We will inherate not just a winning football team & a better cricket team but also have a universal pension. Win Win

Daisy

5 yrs ago

We’ll have a much better PM too.

ex PS

5 yrs ago

But then again Tisany, we have set the bar so low.

Daisy

5 yrs ago

Lol, indeed we have ex PS....

It's a great ad and have to say the best lamb I have tasted comes from NZ.

Adrianus

5 yrs ago

What happens to the older sheep after they have passed the lamb stage and survived the gallows? Do they just hang around destroying the ozone?

@Adrianus

Living in N Ireland we could buy Mutton - but here when I asked local Butcher, I was told Aussies dont know how to cook Mutton so not available.

Now that was outright lie, as i lived in Sydney some years back now last century, and we could buy mutton then.

So where do all the old sheep go is the question indeed. Must be an explanation maybe something we dont want to hear or else why the silence............

Also agree that if we had non compulsory voting, we would have a better class of politician.

Again I once asked why and was told it was brought in by Labor as didnt get voted in as often.

But in UK they do terms in power as often as Conservatives, and also they have 3 major parties not just 2 with non-compulsory voting. Plus easier to vote as colour coded.

Adrianus

5 yrs ago

Irish Lassie, I recall from my childhood that we once had a choice between lamb and mutton.

I dont know if Labor introduced compulsory voting but in my opinion it certainly does favour them.

In 1996, the federal parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters recommended compulsory voting be repealed.

Further evidence that it favours Labor was revealed when the Labor and Democrat members of the committee did not support the recommendation, and the Howard government chose not to pursue it. It is impossible to police because scrutineers would need to see your voting card and that is against the law. This is why nobody ever gets fined I suppose. I think it was Keating who facilitated the practice of multiple voting by having voters details at booths all over the electorate. Barak Obama tried to introduce compulsory voting during his term.

If we elect Bill Shorten I think he will move to reduce the voting age to 16.

As for New Zealand joining us - have half their population sometimes already I think.

There are three stages in sheephood

(1) lamb less than a year old and minus its incisor teeth.

(2) Hogget is between one and two years old.

(3) Mutton is over two years

Sometimes when you think you're buying lamb what you're really getting is hogget. Old sheep are sent to Asia, they prefer it as it suits their cuisine.

NZ always operated on a balanced or surplus budget . A discipline instilled by previous conservative governments

the current NZ labor mob are ok because they really are for all intents and purposes a conservative governmet who hand out a few vote buying programs but unlike Rudd Gillard Rudd Shorten cannot bankrupt the country

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