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- Category : Opinion
A recent report from The Spinoff sheds light on the experiences and motivations of New Zealanders who have joined the conflict in Ukraine. Many of these volunteers are former members of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) who have chosen to fight alongside Ukrainian forces against Russian aggression.
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Read more: New Zealand mercenaries caught up in Ukraine-Russia conflict
- Article: https://hiddentruthreal.in/new-zealand-mercenaries-caught-up-in-ukraine-russia-conflict/
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- Category : Opinion
Opinion - New Zealand is not just on the same page, but is now in lockstep with Australia.
That was the general theme of keynote foreign policy address by New Zealand's prime minister to a Sydney thinktank on Thursday.
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Read more: Christopher Luxon’s hawkish foreign policy address in Sydney
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/525332/geoffrey-miller-christopher-luxon-s-hawkish-foreign-policy-address-in-sydney
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- Category : Analysis
Mouldy military housing needs fixing, but money to do so is short, the government says.
A campaign begun by a woman who lives at Waiouru army base has been gathering families' stories of living in health-eroding conditions, under the banner of Mission Homefront.
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Read more: Mouldy military housing needs fixing, but money is short, government says
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/525493/mouldy-military-housing-needs-fixing-but-money-is-short-government-says
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- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
This is not sending a good message for the state of the NZDF in general with the Government saying they need to increase defence spending but the actual spending they're prepared to make on the basics of living conditions very disappointing and not giving me a lot of confidence on the government spending on on defence to say the least.
- Category : News
Zealand Defence Force homes a "national disgrace", launching a campaign asking for submissions from families impacted by the "horrendous" houses.
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Read more: Campaign launched as images show 'horrendous' state of NZDF housing
- Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/07/29/campaign-launched-as-images-show-horrendous-state-of-nzdf-housing/
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- Category : Defence
New Zealand has quietly signed up to help the United States in its new strategy to expand the weapons-making defence industrial base across the Indo-Pacific region.
The government endorsed a 'Statement of Principles for Indo-Pacific Defense Industrial Base Collaboration' in June.
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Read more: NZ endorses US push to expand weapons-making defence industrial base
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/524369/nz-endorses-us-push-to-expand-weapons-making-defence-industrial-base
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- Category : Analysis
- Australia, the US, Canada and the Philippines will hold a joint exercise in the South China Sea.
- The ABC understands the Australian Defence Force has sent a surveillance aircraft to join the exercise.
- The exercises are almost certain to draw an angry response from Beijing, which claims almost the entirety of the South China Sea as its own territory.
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Read more: Australia joins defence exercise in contested South China Sea
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/524449/australia-joins-defence-exercise-in-contested-south-china-sea
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- Category : Analysis
Analysis - The longer the war in Europe goes on the greater the risk it creeps closer to New Zealand's shores.
That reality is clear for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon after a seat at the table of NATO in Washington DC this week.
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Read more: Luxon's NATO talks bring home what's at stake for New Zealand
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/522022/luxon-s-nato-talks-bring-home-what-s-at-stake-for-new-zealand
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- Category : News
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and her old political rival Don Brash have teamed up to criticize Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, accusing him of making an unexpected "radical shift in New Zealand's foreign policy" that could upset China, New Zealand's largest trading partner.
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- Article: https://www-rnz-co-nz.translate.goog/news/chinese/522477/clark-brash?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
Nobody cares what these two has-beens think anymore...
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