Category : Analysis
Author: Lillian Hanly

A series of exchanges about the AUKUS security pact, from New Zealand and Australian defence and Foreign Affairs, has been revealed in newly released documents.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523994/official-aukus-documents-outline-timeline-of-new-zealand-s-understanding-and-position-on-pillar-two
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Category : Opinion
Author: Craig McCulloch

Defence Minister Judith Collins' office tried to keep secret the Defence Force's criticism of another minister's comments about boot camps, new documents show.

Collins' office wanted the rebuke redacted from an email which was to be released under the Official Information Act (OIA), but the NZDF sent the original draft copy instead, seemingly by mistake.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/527459/minister-tried-to-hide-nzdf-criticism-of-boot-camp-comments
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Category : Opinion
Author: Mr. Arya

A recent report from The Spinoff sheds light on the experiences and motivations of New Zealanders who have joined the conflict in Ukraine. Many of these volunteers are former members of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) who have chosen to fight alongside Ukrainian forces against Russian aggression.

Article: https://hiddentruthreal.in/new-zealand-mercenaries-caught-up-in-ukraine-russia-conflict/
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Category : Opinion
Author: Geoffrey Miller

Opinion - New Zealand is not just on the same page, but is now in lockstep with Australia.

That was the general theme of keynote foreign policy address by New Zealand's prime minister to a Sydney thinktank on Thursday.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/525332/geoffrey-miller-christopher-luxon-s-hawkish-foreign-policy-address-in-sydney
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Category : Analysis
Author: Phil Pennington

Mouldy military housing needs fixing, but money to do so is short, the government says.

A campaign begun by a woman who lives at Waiouru army base has been gathering families' stories of living in health-eroding conditions, under the banner of Mission Homefront.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/525493/mouldy-military-housing-needs-fixing-but-money-is-short-government-says
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This is not sending a good message for the state of the NZDF in general with the Government saying they need to increase defence spending but the actual spending they're prepared to make on the basics of living conditions very disappointing and not giving me a lot of confidence on the government spending on on defence to say the least.

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Category : News
Author: 1News

Zealand Defence Force homes a "national disgrace", launching a campaign asking for submissions from families impacted by the "horrendous" houses.

Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/07/29/campaign-launched-as-images-show-horrendous-state-of-nzdf-housing/
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Category : Defence
Author: Phil Pennington

New Zealand has quietly signed up to help the United States in its new strategy to expand the weapons-making defence industrial base across the Indo-Pacific region.

The government endorsed a 'Statement of Principles for Indo-Pacific Defense Industrial Base Collaboration' in June.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/524369/nz-endorses-us-push-to-expand-weapons-making-defence-industrial-base
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Category : Analysis
Author: RNZ
  • Australia, the US, Canada and the Philippines will hold a joint exercise in the South China Sea.
  • The ABC understands the Australian Defence Force has sent a surveillance aircraft to join the exercise.
  • The exercises are almost certain to draw an angry response from Beijing, which claims almost the entirety of the South China Sea as its own territory.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/524449/australia-joins-defence-exercise-in-contested-south-china-sea
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