Category : News
Author: Thomas Manch

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will this afternoon announce a planned $240 million spend on defence assets and infrastructure in the upcoming Budget.

Article: https://www.thepost.co.nz/a/politics/350008616/budget-to-include-more-than-240m-for-defence-assets
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Category : Defence
Author: Thomas Manch

The Government will spend more than $400 million on boosting defence personnel’s wages in the coming for years, as it battles record-high attrition in the armed forces.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131981601/chris-hipkins-announces-400m-for-defence-personnel-wages-after-returning-from-kings-coronation
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Category : News

New Zealand Defence Force personnel are set to receive a pay rise from July in a bid to combat high staff turnover, the Government has announced.

Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/05/08/nzdf-personnel-to-receive-pay-rise-from-july-1/#:~:text=The%20pay%20for%20many%20NZDF
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Category : Analysis
Author: Jamie Ensor

The Government is hoping to address attrition in the Defence Force with a major pre-Budget funding announcement that will deliver the "biggest pay increase in over a decade" for personnel.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/05/budget-2023-massive-defence-spend-to-see-personnel-receive-biggest-pay-increase-in-over-a-decade.html
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Aotearoa's free trade agreement (FTA) with the United Kingdom will come into effect sooner than expected, with the two nations agreeing to bring forward the entry into force to the end of this month.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/05/new-zealand-united-kingdom-free-trade-agreement-entering-into-force-early-by-end-of-may.html
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