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The Defence Force is looking to add to its fleet of about 60 drones.
Some of the current 60 are obsolete and being withdrawn just four years after the military began buying drones, but new ones will be added.
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Read more: Defence Force seeks more drones for fleet
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/443165/defence-force-seeks-more-drones-for-fleet
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Samoa's Head of State has cancelled Monday's scheduled sitting of Parliament without explanation, in an extraordinary intervention that deepens the political turmoil seen for more than a month.
In a brief proclamation issued late on Saturday night, Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Saluavi II said he was suspending Parliament "until such time as to be announced and for reasons that I will make known in due course".
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/05/samoa-s-head-of-state-cancels-parliament-sitting-for-reasons-i-will-make-known-in-due-course.html
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A Kiwi man has slammed notorious ticket resale website Viagogo for 'ripping off' his elderly mother who spent hundreds of dollars on concert tickets.
The man, who asked to remain anonymous, told Newshub his mother had been trying to buy tickets to Neil Diamond tribute concert The Sweet Caroline Tour which is taking place at SkyCity on June 12.
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Read more: Kiwi issues warning after Viagogo 'ripped off' elderly mother
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/05/kiwi-issues-warning-after-viagogo-ripped-off-elderly-mother.html
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Rocket Lab has been ordered to pay a former employee $97,000 for an “extremely” unfair dismissal, BusinessDesk can exclusively reveal.
A May 19 determination by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) in Auckland obtained by BusinessDesk said engineer Craig Owen was sacked by the high-profile space company in a “predetermined” and “unilateral decision”, and he was never given performance feedback or concerns prior to being fired.
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Read more: Rocket Lab must pay ex-employee $97,000 after attempted ‘buy off’
- Article: https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/technology/rocket-lab-must-pay-ex-employee-97000-after-attempted-buy-off
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This week's Budget has more than just financial accounts. International analyst Geoffrey Miller delves into what the allocations say about the direction of foreign policy under the new ministers.
OPINION: There are some new clues to be found in the Budget that illustrate the foreign affairs and trade agenda of the Labour Government, under new ministers Nanaia Mahuta and Damien O'Connor.
The headline item and only new spending for Vote Foreign Affairs was a $344m appropriation to redevelop Scott Base in Antarctica.
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Read more: Foreign affairs funding largely on ice in Budget 2021 as new priorities emerge
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/05/opinion-foreign-affairs-funding-largely-on-ice-in-budget-2021-as-new-priorities-emerge.html
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Milk company Synlait is distancing itself from an employee being described as a "white supremacist" in a petition calling for his sacking.
Lee Williams is a podcaster and YouTuber who regularly uploads far-right material, and was reportedly visited by police in the wake of the Christchurch terror attacks.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/05/synlait-deeply-concerned-after-petition-launched-to-have-alleged-white-supremacist-s-contract-reviewed.html
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Newstalk ZB host Mike Hosking is threatening to move to Australia if New Zealand doesn't reject the Government's "left-leaning progressive thinking", garnering mixed reactions on social media.
Hosking called the Government an "ideological outlier" in a column for the NZ Herald on Thursday morning, ahead of Finance Minister Grant Robertson's Budget announcement at 2pm.
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Scientists are closely monitoring several marine heatwaves in New Zealand's oceans - and they predict more could develop in the next week.
Patches of the ocean around North Island's East Coast are already experiencing heatwaves, and those near Canterbury and Otago could be next in line.
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