The change in tone at Ardern and Albanese’s meeting could not have been more stark

A lot has changed since the fraught trans-Tasman exchanges of the Morrison government with the two countries now hitting reset

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Jacinda Ardern and Scott Morrison, it seems, were never quite in sync.

Before New Zealand's leader trumpeted a reset" of the relationship with Australia on Friday, she exchanged gifts with the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, who was known at one stage or another as DJ Albo".