'Poor cousin': New Zealand opposition leader insults Tasmania in off-script remarks

Judith Collins says she would not want New Zealand to emulate Tasmania economically and says it was much nicer before the Green party took over'

New Zealand opposition leader Judith Collins has taken aim at Tasmania, calling it Australia's poor cousin" during a penultimate day of election campaigning.

In another off-script moment in her struggling campaign, the leader of the centre-right National party sledged Australia's smallest state on Thursday, saying she wouldn't want New Zealand to be like it.