those tests in Australia are pretty old now. The previous series in NZ, Australia pretty much flogged them.
That’s kind of my point. The team they bought here was vastly inferior to the one they have now, and australia’s was stronger than the one they’ve got now, and NZ still competed evenly over here.
By the way, the series they lost in NZ was immediately after the last one they played over here (buffered by a couple of matches against SL)