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The highly contagious Delta variant has crossed the ditch, with a confirmed case traveling to Wellington over the weekend.
The passenger flew out of Sydney on Friday night on QF163, bound for Wellington, and returned Monday morning on flight NZ247.
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Read more: COVID-19 Case travels to Wellington from New South Wales
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2021/06/covid-19-case-travels-to-wellington-from-new-south-wales.html
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they are so far behind the 8 ball it is not funny. They should have closed the boarder to NSW a lot quicker than they did.
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Quarantine-free travel between New South Wales and New Zealand will pause while the source of infection of new cases announced in Sydney is investigated.
Ten new community cases of COVID-19 were announced on Tuesday in NSW, taking the Australian state's recent community cases linked to the cluster to 21.
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Read more: Quarantine-free travel from New South Wales to New Zealand to pause
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2021/06/coronavirus-quarantine-free-travel-from-new-south-wales-to-new-zealand-to-pause.html
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The Government is investigating a proposal to see new KiwiSaver members increase their contribution from three per cent up to 10 per cent, in half a per cent a year increments.
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Read more: Govt investigating increasing KiwiSaver membership contribution in increments
- Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/christchurch/canterbury-mornings/audio/david-boyle-government-investigating-increasing-kiwisaver-membership-contribution-in-increments/
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Who the fuck can afford that... 10% of your pay ... forced into KiwiSaver... I would probably leave and find a another scheme... and those on minimum wage well, that becomes a lot of money that they can not survive on.
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At the conclusion of the G7 summit, leaders called for a fresh and transparent investigation to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic began.
I welcome the renewed interest in the potential “lab-leak” origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It wouldn’t be the first time an infectious pathogen was accidentally released from a research laboratory.
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Read more: Auckland Uni professor: My experiences show Covid lab-leak hypothesis is plausible
- Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/health/the-conversation-the-covid-19-lab-leak-hypothesis-is-plausible-because-accidents-happen/
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A controversial vegan activist has been banned from every pub in Western Australia after storming a restaurant and chastising patrons about the "fish holocaust".
Perth local Tash Peterson, 27, said she'd been served a notice banning her from all licenced premises in the state. If she does set foot in a restaurant, pub, or club, she could be charged with trespassing and handed a A$10,000 (NZ$10,778) fine.
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Read more: Controversial vegan activist Tash Peterson banned from every pub in Western Australia
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2021/06/controversial-vegan-activist-tash-peterson-banned-from-every-pub-in-western-australia.html
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A discrimination row has broken out in the UK, after the BBC advertised a new trainee position job, but no white people could go for it.
The Daily Mail UK reports the news role is a one-year trainee production management assistant, only open to 'Black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates.'
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Read more: BBC bans white people from applying for new job
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/06/bbc-bans-white-people-from-applying-for-new-job.html
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The security of the world's oceans is more important than at any point since World War II, the Government says – so what is its strategy to protect it, and what are the concerns about its aim?
“We're surrounded – we're surrounded by water, and an awful lot of it.”
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Read more: The strategy to protect NZ seas you haven’t heard of
- Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/the-strategy-to-protect-nz-seas-you-havent-heard-of
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The Australian government said on Saturday it was lodging a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over China's imposition of anti-dumping duties on Australian wine exports, escalating further the trade standoff with Beijing.
"The government will continue to vigorously defend the interests of Australian wine makers using the established system in the WTO to resolve our differences," Dan Tehan, minister for trade, tourism and investment, said in a joint press release with the Agriculture Minister David Littleproud.
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Read more: Australia complaining to World Trade Organization about China's wine tariffs
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/06/australia-complaining-to-world-trade-organization-about-china-s-wine-tariffs.html
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Do you want to increase the Budget of the NZDF to 2%
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