New Zealand is making a pitch for its infrastructure businesses to win lucrative contracts before the Brisbane Olympics, as Prime Minister Christopher Luxon prepares to sit down with Anthony Albanese.<\/p>\n
Mr Albanese and his New Zealand counterpart will hold the annual leaders\u2019 meeting in Noosa, Queensland, on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Mr Luxon arrived in Australia on Friday for a two-day visit.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n The prime minister and his wife Jodie Haydon hosted a reception for Mr Luxon and Amanda Luxon on Friday evening, with business leaders from the two nations in attendance.<\/p>\n Mr Luxon earlier met with members of Brisbane\u2019s 2032 Olympic Committee where he spruiked his nation\u2019s businesses for massive construction projects.<\/p>\n He said his government would make the most of the event to promote New Zealand as a tourist destination, with the eyes of the world on the region.<\/p>\n The two leaders will also discuss how to deepen defence and security co-operation, particularly in the Pacific.<\/p>\n Senior ministers from Mr Luxon\u2019s government have in recent weeks called on Australian business owners unhappy with the federal government\u2019s changes to the capital gains tax to move across the Tasman.<\/p>\n New Zealand\u2019s leader remains strongly opposed to taxing capital gains, saying it will harm businesses.<\/p>\n It is Mr Luxon\u2019s third official visit to Australia, after he last travelled to Canberra in August 2024 for talks with Mr Albanese.<\/p>\n The last annual leaders\u2019 meeting was held in Queenstown in August 2025.<\/p>\n Australia has no \u201ccloser friend, neighbour and ally than New Zealand\u201d, Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n \u201cOur alliance is more important than ever in the face of global uncertainty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAs new challenges emerge, Australia and New Zealand will continue to work together to safeguard the economic prosperity and national security of both countries and the Pacific region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand is making a pitch for its infrastructure businesses to win lucrative contracts before the Brisbane Olympics,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-718033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}