Grant Robertson hopes to get to Australia for talks this week if he recovers from Covid-19.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister is expected to join Jacinda Ardern in Australia on Thursday.

Robertson told Heather du Plessis-Allan he'll meet with his finance counterpart Jim Chalmers.

“Start to get into a bit more detail about how we take forward what’s called the single economic market, which is one of the projects that been underway for many, many years between Australia and New Zealand.”

Robertson will also attend the Australia New Zealand leadership forum.

He says he wants to focus on how the countries can better coordinate infrastructure projects at the forum.

He says they need to make sure projects are sequenced as much as possible so specialist workforce is available and the countries aren't working against each other or pushing up prices.

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