As new Aussie citizenship rules kick in, the ‘fair go’ finally returns to trans-Tasman relations
- Written by Jennifer Curtin, Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland
Getty ImagesIn 1865, my Irish-born great great grandparents travelled from Dunedin to Sydney to marry in St Mary’s Cathedral. Some 63 years later, my grandmother Mary also travelled to Australia to marry my grandfather Ted. He was a clerk with the Bank of New Zealand and had been posted to Melbourne in the 1920s.
Ted and Mary lived in St...
