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Author: Royal New Zealand Navy
Supporting science 👍 Our crew from HMNZS Canterbury have taken to the remote Raoul Island with MetService New Zealand, GNS Science staff and Department of Conservation - contracted electricians to carry out essential tasks including  maintenance of critical weather and natural hazard monitoring equipment.

Article: https://www.facebook.com/NZNavy/posts/10160786990338009
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Author: NZDF

The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) will be bringing Exercise Skytrain to Wanaka and the surrounding regions from 15 – 26 March 2021.

Exercise Skytrain is a C-130 Hercules training activity used by No. 40 Squadron to consolidate skills learnt at Base Auckland. The exercise provides crews with a range of flying training including over unfamiliar and challenging terrain, coordinating pallet drops into drop zones and landing the aircraft on runways different to those in Auckland.

Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/news/air-force-bringing-exercise-to-wanaka/
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Author: Jamie Ensor

Government ministers have met to discuss New Zealand's alert level settings, but Aucklanders won't find out if restrictions will be lifted until later on Friday. 

That's prompted criticism from National, who says Aucklanders deserve to know as soon as possible if the city is moving to alert level 1.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/03/coronavirus-alert-level-announcement-looming-after-thursday-cabinet-meeting.html
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Author: Jamie Ensor

Just a third of managed isolation guests have paid for their stay, with more than $20 million still outstanding, according to new figures.

Kiwis travelling overseas and returning within 90 days as well as any non-New Zealand residents entering the country are required to pay $3100 for their two-week stay in our managed isolation facilities. That will be increased to $5520 in late March for those coming to Aotearoa on temporary visas.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/03/coronavirus-just-third-miq-guests-paid-for-stay-20m-outstanding.html
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Author: Zane Small

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is asking managed isolation guests to "do the right thing" as the amount of unpaid invoices reaches $20 million. 

New figures show just a third of managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) guests have paid for their stay. The data, accurate to March 7, shows 3520 of 9078 invoices have been paid, leaving $20 million outstanding. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/03/covid-19-jacinda-ardern-s-message-to-miq-guests-as-unpaid-invoices-reach-20-million.html
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Author: Tova O'Brien

Australia has fired yet another glib broadside at New Zealand with Scott Morrison suggesting his counterpart Jacinda Ardern doesn't want Australian tourists to spend-up large in Queenstown. 

The Australian Prime Minister has challenged Jacinda Ardern to get cracking with the trans-Tasman travel bubble - a call the National Party is backing big time. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/03/scott-morrison-suggests-jacinda-ardern-doesn-t-want-australian-tourists-to-spend-up-in-queenstown.html
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Author: Jamie Ensor

A landmark independent report has found China is breaching every prohibited act of the UN Genocide Convention with its treatment of the Uighur people and bears responsibility "for committing genocide".

The report from the Washington DC-based think tank Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy is described as the "first independent expert application" of the UN Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of 1-2 million Uighurs thought to be in camps in the north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/03/xinjiang-landmark-report-finds-china-breaching-every-act-of-un-genocide-convention-with-treatment-of-uighurs.html
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Author: Rachel Sadler

The Green Party says an upcoming Rocket Lab launch in New Zealand breaches national security and threatens the country's sovereignty and national interests.

Rocket Lab, which is United States-owned but based in New Zealand, is due to launch its next mission in mid-March at Māhia Peninsula. The mission will carry and deploy satellites for a range of commercial and government customers, including the US Army's Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC).

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/03/upcoming-rocket-lab-launch-carrying-united-states-army-satellite-breaches-new-zealand-s-national-security-green-party.html
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The Greens can just Fuck off... First, RocketLab is no longer a New Zealand Company and they will just launch from the US Wallops Island launch site.  "An experimental" satellite that  satellite that "will test technologies that support development of new capabilities for the US Army" and civil uses as well. New Zealand might as well get the tax from it because they will just launch it from the US. I very much doubt it is breaking any NZ law. 

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