Why Aukus should make us reconsider parts of our nuclear-free stance
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- Author: Luke Malpass
OPINION: When the grand new military alliance was announced between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States – dubbed Aukus – one name was missing its contribution to the acronym: New Zealand.
The real question is why the deal is not called NZAukus. In other words, why has New Zealand been left out in the cold on this new military hardware and defence co-operation deal. At its most basic, the answer is: nuclear. New Zealand has an anti-nuclear policy and, under the current Government, that will certainly not be revisited. Indeed, all parties in Parliament support this approach.
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AUKUS Defence Pact: New Zealand's exclusion reflects our 'friend, not ally' status with the US
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- Author: Lucy Craymer
New Zealand and the United States are friends, not allies. That’s reflected in our exclusion from a new security pact. National Correspondent Lucy Craymer reports.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta have, in recent months, taken turns to emphasise the country’s independent foreign policy. Mahuta went so far as to say that the country was uncomfortable with an expanding remit of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, of which New Zealand remains a member.
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Australia has learnt about China the hard way. When will NZ wise up?
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- Author: Nicholas Khoo
OPINION: The lesson of the coronavirus era is this: international security does not stop, even during a global pandemic.
While New Zealand plays cat and mouse with the coronavirus, the United States and United Kingdom have just announced that they will assist Australia in deploying a conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarine fleet.
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Hacked without being hacked
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To the average person being hacked, they usually think virus, trojan or even a direct attack hack... getting information from their computer and while for the most part this is most likely true. But it is not the only way information is hacked from you. There are many ways it is done where you yourself are freely giving up information online in an innocent-looking post that over a period of time is gathering information about you.
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Future Royal New Zealand Navy
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Those that know me, know I want to increase spending on our defence force (not just the Navy) However, I want to get back to at least a four frigate navy and I want to up-spec our navy and give them some teeth...
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Acting US Ambassador to New Zealand Kevin Covert says Afghanistan situation 'not how we wanted this to end'
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- Author: Jamie Ensor
The acting United States Ambassador to New Zealand says the current situation in Afgahnistan is "not how we wanted this to end".
Twenty years on from the 9/11 attacks that led to the War on Terror, the central Asian nation invaded by US-led forces in 2001 is back under Taliban rule. The Islamic fundamentalist group was deposed in 2001 after it refused to hand over al-Qaeda leaders based in Afghanistan who plotted the attacks.
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