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Beijing has warned Australia that it will face "lasting punishment" over a politician's call to boycott Chinese-made products, the latest development in an escalating diplomatic dispute between the two nations.
On Monday, Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson, the founder and leader of right-wing populist party One Nation, called for a ban on the importation of goods produced in China. It comes after China's foreign minister Zhao Lijian shared a doctored image of an Australian soldier holding a knife to an Afghan child's throat on Twitter - referencing a recent report alleging that Australian special forces unlawfully killed 39 Afghans.
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OPINION: As the diplomatic fallout continues over the digitally altered war crimes tweet sent by China's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, earlier this week, it's important to note this inflammatory and offensive post is not an isolated case.
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Read more: What's behind China's bullying of Australia? It sees a soft target, and an essential one
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/what-s-behind-china-s-bullying-of-australia-it-sees-a-soft-target-and-an-essential-one.html
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New Zealand’s economy amid the Covid-19 pandemic is holding up better than many developed countries thanks to its speedy exit from lockdown and people’s large spending, according to ASB.
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ACT leader David Seymour says today’s declaration of a climate emergency was a sign that “feelings rather than facts” is driving the Government’s response to climate change.
“Today’s climate emergency was a triumph for post-rational politics,” he said.
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Parliament is urgently debating a bill that will make law a new top tax rate of 39 per cent – one of Labour’s key campaign promises.
The tax hike will only apply to the top 2 per cent of income earners.
But a regulatory impact assessment from IRD has said that the tax will only have a tiny impact on inequality in New Zealand.
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Read more: Labour's big new tax makes 0.2 percentage point dent in inequality
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The Prime Minister has declared a 'climate emergency' to recognise the 'devastating impact' extreme weather will have on New Zealand, and the 'alarming' loss of species.
But while most industrial countries have reduced emissions in the last decades, New Zealand has seen some of the biggest increases in greenhouse gases. Nearly half of New Zealand's emissions come from agriculture, followed by energy - mostly transport.
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Almost half of New Zealand's coronavirus-related deaths were patients that had no other known health conditions, according to the Ministry of Health.
Twenty-five people have died from the virus so far. In 14 of these fatalities the people had underlying conditions, but the other 11 didn't have known health problems.
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First landing, HMNZS Aotearoa welcomed the NZ Air Force to its flight deck for the first time as one of No. 3 Squadron's NH90 helicopters & our Seasprite helicopter from No. 6 Squadron practised landing and flight deck procedures.
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Read more: First landing HMNZS Aotearoa welcomed the NZ Air Force
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