In conversation with Laura Tingle by Experience ANU published on 2020-12-01T03:42:31Z Laura Tingle and Don Russell are in conversation on Laura's new quarterly essay The High Road; What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand. Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And now, in the wake of COVID-19, is it time to change that? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, character and two nations in transition. In the past half-century, both countries have remade themselves amid shifting economic fortunes. New Zealand has been held up as a model for everything from privatisation to the conduct of politics to the response to COVID. Tingle considers how both countries have been governed, and the different way each has dealt with its colonial legacy. What could Australia learn from New Zealand? And New Zealand from Australia? This is a perceptive, often amusing introduction to two countries alike in some ways, but quite different in others. 27 November 2020 Comment by Elizabeth Williams Wow i love this track! 2020-12-01T05:02:03Z