> Sue?  Hardly, being considered an Australian is the highest possible 
> honour
> a Kiwi can aspire to.  That goes for the rest of you too (including
> Tasmanians).

Each year a certain percentage of disaffected NZers emigrate to Oz, 
thereby increasing the average IQ of both countries.

> Australia has a long tradition of claiming useful foreigners as 
> their own
> (your meaning of useful may vary!).  Living here for a while helps 
> your
> cause, but if you're sufficiently useful then you may be claimed 
> whilst just
> passing thru.

It's not just people they claim.
Oz's greatest racehorse, Pharlap, was actually NZ born.

And food.
Oz's great dessert (as opposed to desert) experience, The Pavlova, is 
a NZ creation.

And rather more ...

But, they can't be all bad. They once had a Prime Minister named 
McMahon :-)

And, it goes the other way too.
A number of our "native" birds were undoubtedly seeded from Oz when a 
few poor unfortunates got blown out to sea in a major storm and stayed 
aloft rather than die long enough to make landfall here. eg "Zosterops 
Lateralis" aka Silvereye/Waxeye. Not the Kiwi though :-).



        Russell

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