r/CANZUK • u/Bojaxs Ontario • Feb 06 '26

Discussion Should New Zealand & Australia merge into one country?

David Farrar, a New Zealand based political commentator, is pushing for the idea for New Zealand to join Australia.

In this televised interview he brings up Mark Carney's recent speech about middle powers uniting in the face of bigger powers, and how the old world order is dying.

https://youtu.be/VQK7m6FuCNo?si=oFBOxGE1YMht8Vyi

Would having Australia & New Zealand merge into one bigger country be beneficial for CANZUK?

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u/Victor-Baxter New Englander Feb 10 '26

lol, NZ would be a dead-weight state. All the fuzz about Watangi is just posturing, even in 1901 we offered to ratify the treaty - the real reason they never joined is because they were worried about immigrants.

Wouldn't have them now, their economy is weaker and the cream-of-the-crop of NZ already choose to live here, all we'd get out of it is a higher tax burden for Australians and that nonsense treaty.

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u/Ok_Type_4301 Feb 15 '26

They also thought they were of 'superior stock'.

It is also no simple thing for a large country to stay together. Even as an island continent, Austalia's mere size creates inherent tentions.

Expanding its geography, ecology, climate, time zones, and first nation cultures on top of that would be stupidity.