Category : News
Author: RNZ

The 25-cent cut in petrol excise duty and half-price public transport fares will be extended into next year, the government has confirmed this afternoon.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/471104/fuel-tax-cut-and-half-price-public-transport-extended-into-2023
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Category : Analysis
Author: The Conversation

ANALYSIS: It's easy to understand New Zealand's motivation for securing a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU). 

What's less apparent is why the EU chose to pursue the agreement with a small and distant country, currently ranked its 50th most important trading partner.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/07/analysis-a-trade-deal-with-the-eu-makes-sense-for-new-zealand-but-there-s-a-lot-in-it-for-europe-too.html
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Category : News
Author: Emma Cropper

The Solomon Islands has backed down on plans to build a Chinese military base in the Pacific.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/07/solomon-islands-backs-down-on-plans-to-build-chinese-military-base-in-the-pacific.html
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To back down from having a military base one has to have had plans to have a Chinese base to be built in the first place... Just pointing that out because Solomon Islands PM was adamant that it was not even on the horizon... interesting.

I really wish news editors would stop with the fake news head lines... Solomon Islands has not backed down have not changed there tune. They have said all along there is no plan for a Chinese military base and that is what they are saying now.

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Category : Defence
Author: NZDF

The New Zealand Army has returned to field training in the Pacific after two years spent protecting New Zealand’s borders from COVID-19.

Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/news/army-breaks-new-ground-in-new-caledonia-exercise/
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Category : Defence
Author: Rorbert Bird Group

Construction of hangers and offices to house new P8-A Poseidon aircraft for the New Zealand Defence Force. The building comprises two hangers and interconnecting two storey structures that house office and support functions. Seismic joints separate the building into eight separate structures with varying systems formed from steel framing and precast concrete walls.

Article: https://www.robertbird.com/rbg-projects/te-whare-toroa-ohakea-p8-a-hangars/
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Category : Defence
Author: Robert Ayson
​In little more than a year an inside-out experiment at foreign policy making for New Zealand has been turned outside-in. Barely fifteen months ago Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta set out an agenda which began with the Treaty of Waitangi and sought to globalise indigenous values. But claims to New Zealand’s foreign policy uniqueness have been overtaken by events in Europe. Since Russia launched its devastating invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, Jacinda Ardern’s government has been focused on expressing New Zealand’s solidarity with its larger western partners.

Article: https://www.incline.org.nz/home/new-zealands-foreign-policy-turnaround
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Category : News
Author: Christian Novak
Energy security - to borrow a definition from Australia’s 2019 Liquid Fuel Security Review -  comes down to ensuring reliability of supply, and that it is resilient enough to withstand the most likely disruptions. With the global economy facing upheaval after two years of a global pandemic and now, high inflation, the Russia-Ukraine conflict underscores the need for sovereign governments to protect and manage their strategic assets; in this case, energy supply and the risks associated with them. 

Article: https://www.incline.org.nz/home/new-zealands-management-of-its-strategic-assets-in-need-of-recalibration
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