Heather du Plessis-Allan: Where's the real criticism of NZ and Five Eyes coming from?
24 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Nanaia Mahuta greets her Australian counterpart Marise Payne this week. Photo / Getty
NZ Herald
COMMENT
Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne seems to have settled it. The warnings that New Zealand could be thrown out of the Five Eyes alliance over Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta's speech appear overblown.
Of course
Payne was always going to be diplomatic. Foreign ministers mostly speak in vague, coded language few of us understand. But they show displeasure when they need to, and there was none over our position on Five Eyes.