Category : Defence
Author: Tim Fish

AUCKLAND — The resignation of New Zealand Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern came as a surprise to the country and, analysts say, could result in muddying the country’s already stilted progress on defense reform.

Article: https://breakingdefense.com/2023/01/new-zealand-defense-priorities-could-slow-after-resignation-of-pm-jacinda-ardern/
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Category : News
Author: Lloyd Burr

Farmers won't have to pay for their emissions for another seven years under a new proposal from the National Party. 

It unveiled its agriculture emissions reduction plan on Monday.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/06/christopher-luxon-calls-new-zealand-very-negative-wet-whiney-inward-looking.html
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Category : Opinion
Author: Thomas Manch

Defence Minister Andrew Little has told the nuclear powers that New Zealand’s nuclear-free stance is not “wishful thinking”, and the country will gear up to defend “our free and democratic way of life”.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/132221789/andrew-little-tells-nuclear-powers-new-zealands-stance-isnt-just-wishful-thinking
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Category : News

The Australian federal government has announced it will introduce legislation to ban Nazi symbols and the sale of goods-for-profit featuring Nazi symbols.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/491588/australia-to-ban-nazi-symbols-but-not-the-swastika-or-salute
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Category : Analysis
Author: Guy Faulconbridge

When Putin sent troops into Ukraine on February 24 last year, he called it "a special military operation" - a euphemism the Kremlin, Russian ministers and state media mostly stuck to, even coining a new Russian acronym, the "SVO".

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/491618/increasing-talk-of-war-in-russia-worrying-sign-of-escalation
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Category : Defence
Author: Lucy Craymer - Reuters

WELLINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - Historically high levels of attrition in New Zealand's Defence Force may be slowing as new cash pumped in to the Force delays resignations, New Zealand Defence Forces chiefs said on Thursday.

Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/early-signs-new-zealand-defence-force-attrition-slowing-chiefs-2023-06-08/
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Category : News
Author: Patrick Gower

A young Napier girl has been bullied so badly that she's had to leave school.

The 11-year-old was beaten up at her intermediate school in March while a group of students watched, filming the incident rather than stopping the vicious attack.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/06/paddy-gower-has-issues-students-pull-out-their-phones-rather-than-help-11yo-beaten-up-at-napier-school.html
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