Category : Defence
Author: RNZ

The 76-member crew of the HMNZS Wellington had undergone weeks of training to ensure strict safety protocols were in place to protect the islands from Covid-19.

Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio, was in Auckland to see the shipment off today and said the Pfizer vaccine doses can only be delivered by boat to Tokelau because of its remote location.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/446745/over-1000-people-in-tokelau-cook-islands-to-get-covid-19-vaccine-from-nz
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Category : Defence
Author: Royal Canadian Navy

MANAMA, Bahrain–Commodore Dan Charlebois of the Royal Canadian Navy turned over command of Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150) to Capt. Brendon Clark of the Royal New Zealand Navy in a ceremony at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, July 15.

Article: https://combinedmaritimeforces.com/2021/07/17/royal-canadian-navy-hands-over-command-of-ctf-150-to-royal-new-zealand-navy/
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Category : Defence
Author: NZDF

Aircrew on a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules have carried out a medical evacuation of a patient from McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

The aircraft, with 13 crew on board including two New Zealand Defence Force medical personnel, left Christchurch for Antarctica at 10.25pm yesterday. The aircraft landed back in Christchurch shortly after 2pm today.

Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/news/rnzaf-carries-out-medevac-from-antarctica/
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Category : Defence
Author: Jane Patterson of RNZ

The $20 billion spend-up on defence is the latest COVID-19 casualty, with a range of options to scale it down now before the finance minister.

Category : Defence
Author: Jamie Ensor

National's Chris Penk has gone on Australian television to say he's "embarrassed" for New Zealand that Defence Minister Peeni Henare weighed in on the removal of a controversial essay from an Army website.

The essay, titled 'Can the Army Afford to go Woke, Benign Social Progress or National Security Threat', was last week awarded a prize in the Chief of Army Writing competition and published on the Knowledge-Enabled Army (KEA) website.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/07/national-s-chris-penk-tells-australian-tv-show-he-s-embarrassed-for-new-zealand-after-defence-essay-controversy.html
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Category : Defence
Author: Kirsty Lawrence

The New Zealand Defence Force is taking a hard line against unvaccinated staff with some being publicly outed for not having the Covid-19 vaccination.

A letter sent to Minister of Defence Peeni Henare, which Stuff obtained, stated several members of the armed forces were being treated unfairly or unreasonably because they were unvaccinated.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/125688216/defence-force-staff-publicly-outed-for-declining-covid19-vaccination
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Category : Defence
Author: Jamie Ensor

Peeni Henare wasn't behind the removal of a controversial essay rallying against "identity-based" diversity in the Defence Force from a website, his office says.

On Wednesday, it emerged an essay titled 'Can the Army Afford to go Woke, Benign Social Progress or National Security Threat' had won the Chief of Army Writing Competition, only to later be removed from the Knowledge-Enabled Army (KEA) website. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/07/peeni-henare-had-no-involvement-in-removing-controversial-defence-force-essay.html
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Category : Defence
Author: Michelle Duff

The army chief will meet with Defence Force staff after internal furore about the army's publication of an essay that argued diversity was "corrosive to society".

The essay, titled Can the Army Afford to go Woke, Benign Social Progress or National Security Threat, won an army writing competition in the “private writing category”.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300351736/army-chief-to-meet-with-staff-upset-over-antidiversity-essay
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