Thank God Australia's disgraced former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce renounced his New Zealand citizenship or Malcolm Turnbull could have sent him packing, meaning we would have been forced to lock up our daughters on this side of the Tasman.
Okay so he doesn't exactly qualify for the Aussie hardline on the deportation of Kiwi criminals back to this country on character grounds, even if in his pregnant mistress' family's view is that he'd certainly qualify on that front and on the fact that he's an unacceptable risk to the Australian community.
Joking aside, this is the most pernicious aspect of a Government that cares little about our Government and even less about our citizens.
Today Jacinda Ardern will be pressing the flesh of Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney where she'll tell him what's bugging her but will lay on the charm for fear of offending the sensitive Aussie.
And it's understandable that it pays to keep the Aussies on side, given the $24 billion in two way trade each year... or is it?