New Zealand has been poking fun at Australia's Liberal leadership fiasco, with the prime minister's partner even chiming in.
“New Zealand, hold your prime minister tight tonight, you don’t know how lucky you are... actually I think you do,” comedian Peter Helliar tweeted.
In response, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s partner Clarke Gayford replied: "Done."
The amusing post follows Scott Morrison's appointment as the 30th prime minister of Australia - and its seventh in just 11 years.
Other news outlets and journalists have been using plenty of humour to describe the leadership spill.
Radio NZ host Susie Ferguson was hit by fits of laughter when Australian political reporter Kerry-Anne Walsh phoned into her weekly slot, saying: "Good-morning, reporting from the land of madness."
In the New Zealand Herald, Newstalk ZB's political editor Barry Soper wrote an opinion piece titled "Aussie Politicians - they like a blood soaked carpet".
In the opinion piece, he wrote: “This week the ruling Liberal party’s been like a pack of dingoes rounding on their prey, the mega-rich former banker Malcolm Turnbull who’s been fighting them off in a losing battle.
“By comparison leadership changes in this country are like a simple changing of the guard; sure there’s tension if there’s a contest, but they tend to put their best foot forward rather than aiming it where the sun don’t shine.”
And in the Spinoff's Friday edition of The Bulletin, Alex Braae wrote: "In Australian politics today, something will happen. Sorry, I can’t really be any more specific than that, because the events of yesterday were so bizarre, and the possibilities today are endless."
