| (http://www.fybertech.com/images/news/new_zealand_pol70_small.jpg) (http://www.fybertech.com/images/news/new_zealand_pol70.jpg) | Those wacky Australians are at it again. New Zealand is not for sale, despite somebody in neighboring Australia trying to offload the nation of 4 million to the highest online bidder. With a starting offer of just one cent, brisk bidding for the prime chunk of South Pacific real estate quickly boosted the price to 3,000 Australian dollars (US$2,330) before eBay pulled the plug on the auction this week. Apparently the rivalry between the two countries is similar to the US/Canada thing, with Australia being the "noisy neighbor", and New Zealand supposedly full of nice but dull people. I'd look more into the source of such rivarly, but I care as little about theirs as I do our own! Unfortunately I can't seem to find the auction; prolly got totally pulled. But you can read the original story (http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/international/news/20060512p2g00m0in033000c.html) at least. |