New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will arrive in Sydney on Thursday evening to meet Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
It will be the first foreign leader welcomed to Australian soil by the new Labor government.
Ardern said it was fitting that she would be the first foreign head of government to meet Albanese since he took office.
Both leaders said the relationship between the two nations is uniquely close and resembles that of a family.
“We are partners and allies, and we share a relationship of family,” Albanese said. “Through our single economic market, our people-to-people ties and our shared interests in the region and around the world, Australia and New Zealand stand together.”…