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New Zealand's national average asking house price is up more than 20 percent over the last year, new figures show, with 15 regions hitting record highs in June.
The housing market has defied the usual winter slump, with realestate.co.nz reporting the national average asking price has risen sharply to $875,197 from $841,816 in May. It's also up 20.2 percent from $728,328 in June 2020. Fifteen of 19 regions hit record highs last month.
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Read more: Average asking price swells 20 percent over year, 15 regions hit new highs
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2021/07/housing-average-asking-price-swells-20-percent-over-year-15-regions-hit-new-highs.html
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Australian Defence Apparel (ADA), and its parent company Logistik Unicorp, have designed and made clothes for the Australian military for about a century and recently secured a “wearable supply and managed services” contract with the NZ Defence Force.
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Read more: Australian defence contractor jumps the ditch to supply military uniforms
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300339118/australian-defence-contractor-jumps-the-ditch-to-supply-military-uniforms
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A private member's bill replacing the verdict of "not guilty by reason of insanity" with "proven but insane" has been stalled after an 11th-hour intervention by Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann.
The sponsor of the bill, Taupō MP Louise Upston, says she is offended by the late intervention after the justice committee had worked hard on refining the bill and unanimously supported it.
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Read more: Government puts brakes on 'insanity' bill after Chief Justice intervenes
- Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/insanity-bill-stalls-after-chief-justice-intervenes/
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Napier Library has been closed this afternoon after the discovery of picric acid, a potentially explosive substance, in a museum collection.
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Read more: Napier library evacuated due to 'potentially explosive substance'
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/445849/napier-library-evacuated-due-to-potentially-explosive-substance
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Parliament has introduced a bill that gives agencies powers to stop any suspected serious criminal offending on ships in international waters.
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Read more: Vessels in international waters: Agencies to gain powers to stop, search, detain
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/445380/vessels-in-international-waters-agencies-to-gain-powers-to-stop-search-detain
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OPINION: This weekend's Otago Foreign Policy School will be another chance for foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta to explain the Labour Government's foreign policy agenda.
The Dunedin conference has been held annually since 1966, except for last year, when it was cancelled amidst uncertainty over COVID-19.
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- Article: https://democracyproject.nz/2021/06/30/geoffrey-miller-dunedin-conference-another-opportunity-to-signal-foreign-policy-direction/
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As the country prepares to debate proposed hate speech reforms, Al Noor Mosque is being targeted with fresh threats of violence.
Police have received three separate reports relating to the Christchurch mosque in the past fortnight; incidents a senior minister describes as "serious".
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The 27-year-old man, who has interim name suppression, is on trial at a court martial at Devonport Naval Base in Auckland.
The alleged offences happened in a taxi and an apartment in Canada last year. Court martials have jurisdiction over offences committed overseas.
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Read more: Navy sailor on trial over sexual assault of three colleagues
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/445771/navy-sailor-on-trial-over-sexual-assault-of-three-colleagues
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