Category : Opinion
Author: Kerri Jones

OPINION: In August 2017, I had a piece published on Stuff Nation about how the 'Jacinda effect' was the best thing to happen to New Zealand at the time.

Back then, and even now today, I stand by what I wrote at that time.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/126415739/i-believed-in-the-jacinda-effect-now-covid19-has-made-me-critical
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Category : News
Author: Kathy Gannon

Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice" in the building that once housed the Women's Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers on Saturday as part of the forced move.

It was the latest troubling sign that the Taliban are restricting women's rights as they settle into government, just a month since they overran the capital of Kabul. During their previous rule of Afghanistan in the 1990s, the Taliban had denied girls and women the right to education and barred them from public life.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300410626/taliban-replaces-ministry-for-women-with-one-restricting-them-excludes-girls-as-schools-reopen
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Category : News
Author: Isobel Ewing

The tourist town of Te Anau has made a big decision about its future.

Next week, when the country moves into daylight saving, Te Anau has decided to stay there for good.

They say more time in the day is needed to allow visitors to enjoy everything it has to offer.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2021/09/fiordland-tourist-town-of-te-anau-to-move-into-daylight-saving-for-good.html
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Category : News
Author: Reuters

Australia has made a "huge" diplomatic error by ditching a multi-billion-dollar order for French submarines in favour of an alternative deal with the US and UK, France's envoy to Canberra said on Saturday.

Canberra announced on Thursday it would scrap its 2016 deal with France's Naval Group to build a fleet of conventional submarines and instead build at least eight nuclear-powered ones with US and UK technology after striking a trilateral security partnership.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/09/aukus-australia-slammed-for-ditching-french-submarines-deal.html
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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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 So Canada wasn't invited either??? 

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