Category : News
Author: Australian Associated Press

Trade minister Dan Tehan wants Beijing to resume high-level dialogue with Australia.

The trade minister, Dan Tehan, says Australia will oppose China’s bid to join a key trade pact until it halts trade strikes against Australian exports and ­resumes minister-to-minister contacts with the Morrison government.

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/18/australia-to-oppose-chinas-bid-to-join-trade-pact-until-it-halts-strikes-against-exports
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Category : News
Author: Binoy Kampmark

It does not get any messier or more chaotic than this.  Since 2009, when Australia’s Future Submarine Program (FSP) known as Project SEA 1000, began to take shape, strategists and policy makers have been keen to pursue the next big White Elephant of defence spending.  And few areas of an already wasteful area of public expenditure are more costly – often mindlessly so – than submarines.  

Article: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2109/S00048/nuclear-white-elephants-australias-new-submarine-deal.htm
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Category : Defence
Author: Thomas Manch

ANALYSIS: The AUKUS partnership has New Zealand’s only formal defence ally, Australia, turning nuclear-powered. And it has highlighted a sizeable difference in military might.

Australia, with the AUKUS defence pact announced on Thursday, has thrown its chips in with the United States and United Kingdom, promising to acquire at least six nuclear-powered submarines and pile up missiles in the face of an increasingly strident China.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/126413665/why-doesnt-new-zealand-have-submarines-aukus-highlights-pressing-military-question-for-government
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Category : News
Author: Scott Palmer

New Zealand is being labelled "a joke" on defence in the aftermath of its exclusion from the new AUKUS pact.

The defence pact between Australia, the US and the UK will formalise cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, and is seen as a counterweight to China's growing power in the region. Under the deal, the countries will share advanced technologies, including supplying nuclear-powered, but conventionally armed, submarines for the Royal Australian Navy.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/09/aukus-new-zealand-labelled-a-joke-after-nuclear-free-stance-blocks-australia-s-nuclear-powered-submarines.html
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Category : News
Author: RNZ - Reuters

Taiwan has said a record number of Chinese military jets flew into its airspace today.

The defence ministry said 25 aircraft including fighters and nuclear-capable bombers entered its so-called air defence identification zone (ADIZ).

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/440409/taiwan-record-number-of-china-jets-enter-airspace
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Author: RNZ / Reuters

China has lobbied the Australian parliament to help it join a major regional trading pact, describing the strength of Chinese trade with Australia and avoiding mention of billions of dollars in punitive sanctions imposed by Beijing.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/451705/china-applies-to-join-comprehensive-and-progressive-trans-pacific-partnership
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Category : Defence
Author: The Economist

ANALYSIS: Only once in its history has America handed over a nuclear submarine propulsion plant, the crown jewels of military technology, to another country.

That was 63 years ago when America helped the Royal Navy to go nuclear. Now it will take that dramatic step again.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/300410410/aukus-what-does-the-australian-nuclear-submarine-deal-mean-for-nonproliferation
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Category : News
Author: Tracy Neal

Transport officials have been directed to assess how supplies like food will be impacted with two Wellington-Picton ferries out of action.

Already frustrated at delays, truckies' and food suppliers' concerns have worsened with news the Interislander won't honour freight booking over the next two weeks.

Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/pro/govt-wants-answers-on-cook-strait-ferries-cancellations
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