I understand the tendency to group NZ and Australia together but they are totally different in this case.
Australia is A+, while modern NZ government behavior is feckless akin to euro-weenies. People should not be in denial about the NZ government attitude and behavior.
"...modern NZ government behavior is feckless akin to euro-weenies"
It is even worse. Remember New Zealand's nuclear free legislations in the 1980s when it must be noted in the context that the Cold War was still going on? The then PM David Lange implied that the legislation was a declaration of neutrality on the part of New Zealand. Many of the New Zealand Labour Party members were questioning the former West German "Ostpolitik" Chancellor Willy Brandt why West Germany didn't do likewise and withdraw from NATO, when Brandt came to NZ for a Socialist International function. Brandt observed that "You are far from the eipcentre of conflicts so you can afford the luxury of being a pacifist!".
In otehr words, even Brandt thought NZ's policies were unrealistic in much of thw world.