Author: Martyn Bradbury

Look, the NZDF are excellent at shooting civilians, burning their homes, handing them over to known torture units, gaining intelligence from torture and then hiding and lying about all those abuses of power, but should we be cutting the NZDF budget to ‘help lift New Zealander’s well being’ because as the apocalypse in Australia has proven, you need a military to help in the immediacy of a civil defence emergency.

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Author: The Democracy Project

Can we trust New Zealand’s military? There must now be serious doubt, given the landmark report released on Friday concluding the investigation into allegations made in the book Hit and Run by Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson about a 2010 SAS killing raid in Afghanistan.

Article: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2008/S00028/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-burnham-report-shows-why-we-cant-trust-nzs-military.htm
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Author: WILSON LONGHURST

New Zealand and its Five Eyes security partners say they’re “gravely concerned” by the Hong Kong government’s disqualification of 12 pro-democracy candidates from upcoming parliamentary elections.

Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/gravely-concerned-new-zealand-and-security-partners-call-fair-hong-kong-elections
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Author: Rachel Sadler

NASA is being ridiculed for its decision to stop using the nicknames for two of its celestial phenomena, the Siamese Twins Galaxy and the Eskimo Nebula, because they are "insensitive" and "hurtful".

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/08/nasa-ridiculed-for-dropping-eskimo-nebula-siamese-twins-cosmic-objects-names.html
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Author: Royal New Zealand Navy

 Join our crew onboard HMNZS Wellington and go behind the scenes during gunnery training...

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Author: Dan Satherley

Zero new COVID-19 cases in managed isolation were reported by the Ministry of Health on Sunday.

It's now been 100 days since the last case of community transmission of the virus in New Zealand. Overseas, more than 728,000 have died.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/08/coronavirus-zero-new-covid-19-cases-reported-in-isolation.html
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