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National's Chris Penk has gone on Australian television to say he's "embarrassed" for New Zealand that Defence Minister Peeni Henare weighed in on the removal of a controversial essay from an Army website.
The essay, titled 'Can the Army Afford to go Woke, Benign Social Progress or National Security Threat', was last week awarded a prize in the Chief of Army Writing competition and published on the Knowledge-Enabled Army (KEA) website.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/07/national-s-chris-penk-tells-australian-tv-show-he-s-embarrassed-for-new-zealand-after-defence-essay-controversy.html
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The New Zealand Defence Force is taking a hard line against unvaccinated staff with some being publicly outed for not having the Covid-19 vaccination.
A letter sent to Minister of Defence Peeni Henare, which Stuff obtained, stated several members of the armed forces were being treated unfairly or unreasonably because they were unvaccinated.
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Read more: Defence Force staff publicly outed for declining Covid-19 vaccination
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Peeni Henare wasn't behind the removal of a controversial essay rallying against "identity-based" diversity in the Defence Force from a website, his office says.
On Wednesday, it emerged an essay titled 'Can the Army Afford to go Woke, Benign Social Progress or National Security Threat' had won the Chief of Army Writing Competition, only to later be removed from the Knowledge-Enabled Army (KEA) website.
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Read more: Peeni Henare 'had no involvement' in removing controversial Defence Force essay
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The army chief will meet with Defence Force staff after internal furore about the army's publication of an essay that argued diversity was "corrosive to society".
The essay, titled Can the Army Afford to go Woke, Benign Social Progress or National Security Threat, won an army writing competition in the “private writing category”.
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Read more: Army chief to meet with staff upset over anti-diversity essay
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An essay criticising the Kiwi military’s efforts to increase diversity won an army writing competition, only to be quietly taken down amid a backlash in the ranks.
The entry, titled Can the Army Afford to go Woke, Benign Social Progress or National Security Threat won the Chief of the Army’s writing competition in the “private writing category”.
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Read more: Army gives anti-diversity essay award, then removes it after backlash
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Opinion - This week New Zealand was officially pronounced the second most peaceful nation on Earth - just behind Iceland - in the publication of the annual Global Peace Index. New Zealand's high "peacefulness" score was based on the country's low amount of violence, conflict and terrorism.
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Read more: Best defence or giving offence? Questions about military spending
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Logistik Unicorp Group expands its international activities: New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) bestows its trust on Australian Defence Apparel (ADA) announcing the award of the The Wearables Supply and Managed Services Contract for the end-to-end management of their operational and dress uniforms, accessories, load carriage and a wide range of associated equipment.
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- Article: https://asianmilitaryreview.com/2021/06/new-zealand-defence-force-awards-uniform-management-contract-to-the-logistik-unicorp-group/
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A military panel deciding whether a sailor sexually assaulted three colleagues while on tour of duty in Canada is hearing the trial judge's summing-up.
The 27-year-old man, who has interim name suppression, denies sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection and two charges of indecent assault.
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