Australia-NZ pavlova rivalry 'solved' as leaders declare truce

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand’s Christopher Luxon served up pavlova diplomacy on a New Zealand glacier, declaring the dessert dispute “settled” with a half-Aussie, half-Kiwi creation. This video includes ACM-produced voiceover powered by AI.

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00:00Quite clearly it's half-half, Australia, New Zealand.

00:05Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand's Christopher Luxon

00:09ended their annual leaders' meeting with a sweet compromise

00:12to settle the frosty rivalry of which country created the famous pavlova.

00:18Standing atop a glacier in the Southern Alps,

00:21the pair unveiled a piece pavlova split down the middle.

00:25One side topped with iconic kiwi-kiwifruit,

00:28the other crowned with tim-tams.

00:31But you've seen pieces broken out up here on this mountain today in South Island, eh?

00:36This is clearly Australian.

00:38That's Australian with your tim-tams, and that's us with our kiwi, for example.

00:42That's a good way to go. Problem solved.

00:44We have solved a centuries-old debate.

00:46And we had to come up here to do it.

00:49It wasn't all desert diplomacy.

00:51Earlier the leaders honoured fallen Anzac soldiers in Arrowtown

00:54and reaffirmed plans to deepen military cooperation

00:57in the face of rising regional tensions.

01:00On the east coast, the next one is a zombie-tams.

01:04On a west coast, the west coast, there will be a dead-landest

01:05mystery to the Russians in the east coast.

01:07America has a pleasure to meet you.

01:10On a west coast, the west coast, the west coast is a very strong struggle.

01:12Now, the east coast is a more priority to turnater.

01:13In New York, there is a long-tams for this world.

01:15It's a light-tams for it.

01:17But a bright-tams for it is a great-tams for it.

01:18But a-tams for it is a very strong and reliable connection.

01:21You've loved to have been a positive dynamic

01:26that is not a real life-tams for it.

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