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This week, in favourable sea conditions and 250 nautical miles southeast of Tonga, the crew of HMNZS Aotearoa retrieved a Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) buoy that had been drifting since it broke its mooring in December.
The buoy was part of a network managed by the National Emergency Management Agency that provides tsunami monitoring and detection coverage for New Zealand and the southwest Pacific.
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Read more: Navy retrieves drifting Pacific tsunami buoy
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Any border worker who refuses a vaccination will soon be removed from their frontline job.
COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says they can't force people to take the jab, but nor is it acceptable to have unvaccinated people working in New Zealand's main protection against the virus ravaging other parts of the world.
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Only one in 10 Dudenites are using the COVID Tracer app when they're out and about, a "disturbingly low" percentage according to researchers.
And a third of venues aren't getting anyone to scan in at all, many of them bars - a high-risk setting for COVID-19 transmission if there was an outbreak.
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Read more: Only one in 10 Dunedinites are using the COVID Tracer app
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The Government on Tuesday announced new caps on how much a buyer can spend on their first home and still qualify for a First Home Loan and First Home Grant.
According to Housing Minister Megan Woods, the new caps are based on the median figure in the lower-quartile of recent sales - suggesting the bottom eighth of properties would qualify.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has no regrets removing tax deductions on interest costs for rental properties, which she describes as a "tax loophole".
Property investors have been threatening to increase rents after the Government announced on Tuesday they will phase out the "tax loophole" over four years, among a range of other measures to help bring house prices down.
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Every other business can do it why is it a loop hole for landlords...
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The National Party says the Government must enact an abandoned sanctions law that could be used to target Chinese officials over the abuse of the Uyghur minority.
The party's foreign affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee on Wednesday told Stuff it’s time for China to open up Xinjiang, a western province, to a United Nations (UN) team to inspect human rights abuse of the Uyghur Muslim minority.
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Read more: Uyghur abuses: National Party backs call for UN investigation in Xinjiang, China
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The United States will not force any NATO ally to choose sides between Washington and Beijing, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, although he warned that China was seeking to undermine Western liberal democracies.
European allies France and Germany are looking for a strategic balance in relations with Beijing and Washington that ensures the European Union is not so closely allied with one of the world's two big powers that it alienates the other.
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Read more: United States won't force allies into 'us or them' choice on China - Antony Blinken
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Landlords who threaten to raise rents as a result of the Government's new housing plan are being "disingenuous", an investor says, and they should accept housing as a public good - not a product.
Part of the Government's plan means property investors will no longer be able to offset their interest expenses against their rental income, reducing their tax liability.
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