Australian roast lamb for dinner

Tonight we had a roast leg of Australia lamb for dinner, with pumpkin, new potatoes, kumera and cabbage with mint sauce. I must say that it was delicious.

What concerns me is that New Zealand has a free trade agreement with China and I can only buy Australian goods and, from what I hear on the news from New Zealand is that the people are not keen to do any business with China.

I think the whinging Poms seem to have gone and now we have whinging New Zealanders.

Why is Australia ahead of New Zealanders in wages and other conditions, maybe it is not Australia, that has the racial predjudices as before, and New Zealand has taken these on.

I guess the result is that New Zealanders will get further behind and Australians will be much better off and I will have to continue to eat Australian products such as meat, milk and fruit.

Australia sells coal to China and New Zealand keeps it in the ground and has high unemployment.

New Zealand sells dairy farms to Germany without a murmur but there is uproar if China is mentioned as a buyer.

Maybe all the salespeople have left New Zealand and are now working in Australia selling Australian products to China.

New Zealand and their products have a wonderful name in China but  our industries are not taking advantage of it.

Cost of the lamb was about NZ$30.00 so it was about the same as you pay in New Zealand.

New Zealand has certainly increased trade to China but they are not pushing like other countries who  are selling their wares here very aggressively and digging themselves out of the recession. Poor New Zealand is left struggling.

Come on New Zealand, get moving.

Enough bleating – have a nice weekend everyone