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Category: Defence

Published: 22 July 2024

Category : Opinion

The Australian surface combatant review’s recommendations around Tier 2 general purpose frigates pose interesting questions for New Zealand, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts.

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Read more: Australian Surface Combatant Review: What bearing could it have on RNZN fleet renewal?

Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2024/07/11/australian-surface-combatant-review/

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Parent Category: News

Category: Defence

Published: 22 July 2024

Category : Opinion

Author: Marie Russell

Opinion: All up, defence cost us more than $6.7 billion in 2023/24.

There were 14,996 people working for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) at June 2023, while others dealt with procurement and policy in the non-military wing, the Ministry of Defence.

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Read more: Is our investment in defence value for money?

Article: https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/27/is-our-investment-in-defence-value-for-money/

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Not sure what pressure to join AUKUS there is... as there is no pressure... Pillar 2 of AUKUS is only in the form of technology ie; quantum computing, space and the like nothing to do with the nuclear side of AUKUS.

Also the auther of this article... Marie Russell;

Marie Russell is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Health, University of Otago, Wellington. Not much of a qualifications on defence.

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Parent Category: News

Category: Politics

Published: 22 July 2024

Category : News

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and her old political rival Don Brash have teamed up to criticize Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, accusing him of making an unexpected "radical shift in New Zealand's foreign policy" that could upset China, New Zealand's largest trading partner.

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Read more: Clark and Braz jointly criticize the current prime minister's radical shift in foreign policy

Article: https://www-rnz-co-nz.translate.goog/news/chinese/522477/clark-brash?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB

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 Nobody cares what these two has-beens think anymore...

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Parent Category: News

Category: Defence

Published: 21 July 2024

Category : News

Author: NZ DPRK Society

The claim by Ministers Judith Collins and Winston Peters that deploying NZDF personnel to the so-called United Nations Command (UNC) in South Korea will better support peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula is refuted by Dr Tim Beal, Chairman of the NZ DPRK Society.

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Read more: NZDF Personnel Should Not Be Deployed To Korea

Article: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2406/S00076/nzdf-personnel-should-not-be-deployed-to-korea.htm

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