Category : News
Author: Caitlin Ellis

Wellington is moving to alert level 2 after a person with COVID-19 travelled to the city from Sydney over the weekend. 

COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins confirmed the change in levels at a press conference on Wednesday. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/06/alert-level-2-refresher-what-it-means-for-wellington.html
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Category : News
Author: Emma Cropper

The highly contagious Delta variant has crossed the ditch, with a confirmed case traveling to Wellington over the weekend.

The passenger flew out of Sydney on Friday night on QF163, bound for Wellington, and returned Monday morning on flight NZ247.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2021/06/covid-19-case-travels-to-wellington-from-new-south-wales.html
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 they are so far behind the 8 ball it is not funny. They should have closed the boarder to NSW a lot quicker than they did.

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Category : News
Author: Rachel Sadler

Quarantine-free travel between New South Wales and New Zealand will pause while the source of infection of new cases announced in Sydney is investigated.

Ten new community cases of COVID-19 were announced on Tuesday in NSW, taking the Australian state's recent community cases linked to the cluster to 21.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2021/06/coronavirus-quarantine-free-travel-from-new-south-wales-to-new-zealand-to-pause.html
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Category : News
Author: Newstalk ZB

The Government is investigating a proposal to see new KiwiSaver members increase their contribution from three per cent up to 10 per cent, in half a per cent a year increments.

Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/christchurch/canterbury-mornings/audio/david-boyle-government-investigating-increasing-kiwisaver-membership-contribution-in-increments/
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Who the fuck can afford that... 10% of your pay ... forced into KiwiSaver... I would probably leave and find a another scheme... and those on minimum wage well, that becomes a lot of money that they can not survive on.

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Category : News
Author: The Conversation

At the conclusion of the G7 summit, leaders called for a fresh and transparent investigation to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic began.

I welcome the renewed interest in the potential “lab-leak” origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It wouldn’t be the first time an infectious pathogen was accidentally released from a research laboratory.

Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/health/the-conversation-the-covid-19-lab-leak-hypothesis-is-plausible-because-accidents-happen/
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Category : News
Author: Rachel Sadler

A controversial vegan activist has been banned from every pub in Western Australia after storming a restaurant and chastising patrons about the "fish holocaust".

Perth local Tash Peterson, 27, said she'd been served a notice banning her from all licenced premises in the state. If she does set foot in a restaurant, pub, or club, she could be charged with trespassing and handed a A$10,000 (NZ$10,778) fine.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2021/06/controversial-vegan-activist-tash-peterson-banned-from-every-pub-in-western-australia.html
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Author: Tia McDougall

A discrimination row has broken out in the UK, after the BBC advertised a new trainee position job, but no white people could go for it. 

The Daily Mail UK reports the news role is a one-year trainee production management assistant, only open to 'Black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates.'

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/06/bbc-bans-white-people-from-applying-for-new-job.html
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Category : Defence
Author: SAM SACHDEVA

The security of the world's oceans is more important than at any point since World War II, the Government says – so what is its strategy to protect it, and what are the concerns about its aim?

“We're surrounded – we're surrounded by water, and an awful lot of it.”

Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/the-strategy-to-protect-nz-seas-you-havent-heard-of
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