New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern is a record trader now

Discogs diplomacy.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been trading records with her new Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese.

Albanese was hosting Ardern in Sydney this month, ahead of their first official meeting since he assumed office on the 23rd May.

After going out for a friendly dinner, the pair ended up swapping some records.

Albanese drew for Aussie rock classics, gifting Ardern albums by Midnight Oil, Spiderbait and Powderfinger, while the New Zealand PM returned the favour with some releases from New Zealand’s Flying Nun label – including records by Aldous Harding, The Clean, and Reb Fountain.

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This isn’t the the first time heads of state have engaged in a musical gift exchange: in 2009, then-president Barack Obama gave the Queen an iPod Classic. A year later, he gifted David Cameron a set of 25 DVDs.