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UnCERtainty

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UnCERtainty

Australia’s negotiations with New Zealand over a full free-trade agreement – to be known as the Australia–New Zealand closer economic relations trade agreement, ANZCERTA (CER for short) – were complex. Prime Minister Robert Muldoon was not as hostile to the agreement as this cartoon suggests.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-312-3-002

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Malcolm McKinnon, International economic relations – Australia and New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/24815/uncertainty (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2010.