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It is a huge area that a country with only a population of (at the time of writing) 4.8 million and a GDP of around 385 NZD billion (roughly $250 USD billion.) Now believe it or not New Zealand has been spending 1.3% on defence. Roughly $3.75 NZD billion dollars. There is also the 20 billion dollar injection over 15 years which works out to be around an extra 1.3 NZD billion a year. (but this extra money is set aside to buy the tools required and replace aging assets.
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Samoa is throwing everything it has into the battle against measles, but the relentless spread of the disease and rising death toll prove the fight is far from over.
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Read more: Why Samoa is being devastated by measles
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The past decade is almost certain to be the hottest on record, weather experts warn, painting a bleak picture of vanishing sea ice, devastating heatwaves and encroaching seas in a report launched at a climate summit in Spain.
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New Zealand's Race Relations Commissioner has labelled a cartoon about the Samoan measles crisis published in the Otago Daily Times (ODT) "extremely appalling and distasteful".
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China wants Australia "to bend the knee to Beijing" through a concerted effort of "political warfare" according to Dr Malcolm Davis from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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A woman dumped the remains of her bushfire-charred family home outside the Australian parliament on Monday, accusing lawmakers of failing to act on the climate crisis.
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Cars have been banned from roads and the public told to "stay home" as Samoa enforces extreme measures to contain the measles outbreak.
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The Otago Times (OTD) has apologised after an "insensitive" cartoon was released by the newspaper making light of the measles crisis in Samoa.
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