All good, but you are comparing apples with oranges.
No contest NZ is a great place to visit.
Fabulous to fish Paihia, Waitangi and the Bay of Islands then drive south down the beach digging up tuatua with your toes.
Sth Island. The coast rail to Christchurch crays at Kaikoura yum fresh coutta.
They need tourism, inbound passengers are death to such a tiny population with scant medical.
NZ does not have the thousands of sq km of grain, mountains of iron, volumes of coal that Australia has. Australia has trouble too. Jacinda is in a worse spot of course the reason she floated the idea of a "bubble".
