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Author: Phil Pennington,

The shift to use more biofuels is forecast to raise petrol and diesal prices and knock up to $1 billion off New Zealand's economic growth within four years, but not making a move could also carry big, uncalculated costs, reports suggest.

A number of reports about biofuels to officials and ministers have been triggered by the impending shutdown of the Marsden Point oil refinery - which is being converted into an import-only terminal - and Tiwai Point aluminium smelter.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/458668/what-is-the-real-cost-of-a-switch-to-biofuels
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 So instead of growing food... that land is now for for fuel... undecided would prefer food over fuel I can live with out fuel but not food...
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Category: Defence
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Author: Dr Wayne Mapp

Dr Wayne Mapp writes that if New Zealand is to provide its Defence Force with modern platforms capable of interoperability with partners, it will need to maintain defence expenditure at 1.5 percent of GDP over the next decade.

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Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2021/12/13/line-of-defence-magazine-summer-2021-22/
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 Does New Zealand spend enough on Defence? Simple answer is, "No, New Zealand does not spend enough on defence."
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Category: Politics
Category : Opinion
Author: Nicholas Dynon

As the West laments a global decline in its version of democracy, China suggests its own brand of democracy as a replacement. It’s part of an increasingly contested space, writes Nicholas Dynon, at the discursive end of great power competition.

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Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2021/12/16/democracy-declining-or-being-redefined/
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Category: Defence
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Author: Dr Simon Ewing-Jarvie

I usually write a piece thanking the New Zealand Defence Force personnel who are deployed overseas and away from their families at Christmas. That sentiment stands but this year I’m going to focus on those deployed on duty at managed isolation and quarantine facilities around the country.

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Article: https://unclas.wordpress.com/2021/12/25/a-xmas-shout-out-to-miq-staff/
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Category: Science
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Author: RNZ

The story of our universe begins nearly 14 billion years ago with the Big Bang.

We can still see the afterglow of this violent and sudden expansion of the cosmos.

Clumps of lurid blues and purples, known as cosmic microwave background radiation, reveal minute variations in temperature and density.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/458602/five-mysteries-of-the-universe-the-james-webb-space-telescope-may-help-us-solve
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Author: Reuters

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, built to give the world its first glimpse of the universe as it existed when the earliest galaxies formed, was launched by rocket early Saturday from the northeastern coast of South America, opening a new era of astronomy.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/nasa-s-revolutionary-james-webb-space-telescope-launched.html
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Category: Politics
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Author: Anneke Smith

New Zealand's condemnation of Hong Kong's Legislative Council elections reflects a "hardening stance" towards China, says a leading defence analyst.

Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta on Tuesday joined her Five Eyes counterparts to express "grave concern" over the erosion of democratic elements of the new electoral system.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/458594/something-has-shifted-in-nz-s-security-and-foreign-policy-for-china-says-analyst
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Category: World
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Author: Reuters

Japan will not send a government delegation to February's Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to deepen tension with China.

The decision follows a US-led diplomatic boycott of the Games over concerns about human rights in China, although Japan has avoided explicitly labelling its move as such.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/china-winter-olympics-boycott-japan-not-sending-government-delegation.html
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  2. NZ not convinced Chinese security unit is needed in Solomons
  3. China reveals plan to 'clean up' the internet
  4. Farmers tells family of Māori teen called 'undesirable' it doesn't think the incident was racist

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