It's going to be a long week this week, even though we're already midway through it.

It's going to be long because those of us who like to see that oval ball being flung around a paddock will have one thing on our minds - Australia.

And the passion to beat them has for some of us increased because of the way they treat us across the Tassey.

Muldoon once said that Kiwis going to live across the ditch increased the IQ of both countries which was a backhanded complement to those of us who've decided to stay on this side of it. And of course it didn't say much for the Ocker shockers on the other side, particularly when you consider that Kiwis living there have a lower unemployment rate and, believe it or not, a lower incarceration rate.

Yep we want to be celebrating a win against the Aussies because we seem to be losing the political battle with them at the moment.

Their decision to get rid of Kiwi crims who've spent a year or more in jail there, even though they may have been in Australia since they were toddlers and have learnt all their bad habits in that former penal colony, is neither here nor there. Although when you think about it, it is, more here than there when it comes getting rid of undesirables.

When they come back here they'll be under supervision, ranging from six months to five years depending on how long they've been in the slammer there. At any one time there will be around a hundred under the watchful eye of probation officers which is expected to cost us around seven million bucks over five years, another reason to rub their noses into the Twickenham turf on Sunday.

Okay once we've vented our collective spleen, perhaps we should reflect on how we got into this predicament.

Not long after Helen Clark became the head girl, the Aussies proposed that we standardise the immigration rules on either side of the ditch. They rightly complained that our approach to migrants was much softer than theirs. Clark refused to play ball.

So foreigners who knew they wouldn't get into Australia came here, became citizens and then as newly inducted Kiwis got automatic access to that country.

The Aussies saw them as backdoor migrants and our troubles began.

But before we start feeling too sorry for them, those born in New Zealand are still getting the raw end of the deal.

So let's rub their noses in it on Sunday, rejoicing the fact that a number of our All Blacks weren't born here!