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Aussies are different from us, Bollard tells markets

We say recess-shun; the Aussies say recess-sheen.

Well, they would, if they’d had one. But they didn’t – a point Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard made to the Trans Tasman Business Circle and the wider financial community this afternoon.

Australia and New Zealand are split by more than the Tasman Sea, disagreements of vowel pronunciation; and the fact they have a decent cricket team and we don’t.