Broadsides: Should NZ have a common currency with Australia?
Labour MP Jacinda Ardern and National MP Nikki Kaye. Labour MP
Jacinda Ardern and National MP Nikki Kaye.  We asked Labour's
Jacinda Ardern and National's Nikki Kaye: Should New Zealand
have a common currency with Australia?   Just like half of the
kiwis my age it seems, I used to live in London. I worked in the
Cabinet Office - the department in the United Kingdom
responsible for supporting the Prime Minister. It was never a
very easy job to explain. I once told my Kiwi neighbour what I
did, and he asked what kind of cabinets I made. Somehow it just
seemed easier to reply "dining and occasional".  At work one day
I remember being told by one of my British colleagues that the
largest and by far the toughest project he had ever led was
investigating whether the UK should adopt the Euro. As he told
me about the long drawn out process they went through, I
immediately thought about the debate that had always popped up
from time to time back home: "shou