There'll be a mutual massage of the mega money market moguls in Auckland tonight.

Teflon John Key and megalomaniac Malcolm Turnbull have more in common than making stashes of cash from manipulating the markets. They are of course Prime Ministers.

Turnbull, who financially did quite a lot better in the markets than Key, likes the cut of our PM's cloth and Teflon John's flattered.

In his first outing before the media as Prime Minister, almost exactly a month ago, The Aussie said he believed to be a successful leader you have to be able to bring people with you by respecting their intelligence in the manner you explain things. Turnbull said they've got some great leaders at state level across the ditch, but he pointed to Key as an international statesman.

They and their wives will clink their glasses are a private dinner tonight before the pair of them sit down for a yak at Guv House tomorrow. That's where Turnbull will get the chance to test his theory about being a successful leader.

He'll get the opportunity to explain the inexplicable, why the Aussies feel justified treating Kiwis the way his forefathers were treated by the Poms when they created their penal colony down under.

No one has much sympathy for people who break the law and are sent to jail. But in Australia if you've done the crime you're now expected to do more than your time.

Their inhumane new law has people with Kiwi passports cowering, fearing a knock on their door, years after they've served their sentence. That knock could see them locked up in a detention centre while they await deportation.

There was a Kiwi woman on telly this week who'd stolen from her employer years ago, did her time behind bars, was released and now runs her own business. She lives in a good neighbourhood and she's got kids who were born in Australia. She hasn't lived in New Zealand for decades but now lives in fear of that knock on the door.

It was bad enough the Aussies passing a law more than a decade ago removing standard entitlements for taxpaying Kiwis living and working there.

So let's hope the ANZAC spirit means more to the new Aussie leader than a single malt with the man he professes to admire so much!