Terry,
>>I did not know it was that sensitive of an issue - did not mean to offend.
No offence taken. The Aussies and the kiwis are like brothers who scrap a lot ;-)
>>So NZ has the southern cross and Australia has the ______?
Australia has an extra star on the flag and some minor color differences.
>> it seems a big - big - bubble is about to burst (a really big pop). It would be neat to be somewhere with plenty of resources - plenty watee and warm south pacific (or north anarctic?) waters.
Australasia has huge resources. The aussies call themselves "the lucky country" with good reason. NZ has different qualities- in some ways we are to Australia as Canada is to the USA.
Regards
j.R
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
