Willis tells us before dawn about her travel plans and – early this afternoon – she reports on her meeting with Aust Treasurer

Buzz from the Beehive

Finance Minister Nicola Willis – and press secretary Nick Venter, too, we may suppose – were up and about before sparrow’s fart.

Her bags would have been packed and her passport checked.

We report this on the strength of an email from Venter which landed in our electronic in-tray at 5.01am (which we did not read immediately).

It advised that Willis would travel to Australia today to meet her Australian counterpart, Treasurer Jim Chalmers.