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Category: Defence
Author: Robert Ayson
Since the Ardern government took office, we've been treated to a veritable deluge of publically launched defence policy documents. Minister Ron Mark has had no need of a new White Paper – the next one is due no earlier than 2021.
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Article: http://www.incline.org.nz/home/has-defence-gone-off-the-pacific-deep-end
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Category: Defence

New Zealand has announced plans to increase its military capabilities in the Pacific in a move that is widely expected to prompt reaction from China.

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Article: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/10/29/609846/New-Zealand-China-military-Pacific-US-Australia
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Author: Jamie Ensor

A British reality television star and Instagram influencer is facing criticism after suggesting the events of World War II shouldn't be taught at school as it may impact students' mental health.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/11/social-media-influencer-freddie-bentley-under-fire-for-saying-learning-about-world-war-ii-bad-for-mental-health.html
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Author: Tom Hamburger, Carol D Leonnig, Greg Miller and Ellen Nakashima

Several days after US President Donald Trump's phone call with the leader of Ukraine, a top White House lawyer instructed a senior national security official not to discuss his grave concerns about the leaders' conversation with anyone outside the White House, according to three people familiar with the aide's testimony.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/117115688/white-house-official-told-keep-quiet-after-hearing-trumps-call-with-ukraine-leader
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Author: Benn Bathgate

The woman accused of defrauding an anti-child abuse charity she established in Taupō has failed in a bid to get one of the charges she faces dismissed. 

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117098368/alleged-child-abuse-charity-fraudster-a-former-oranga-tamariki-worker
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Author: Chris Morris

Plans to build a cockleshell-shaped building at the heart of Dunedin's waterfront development plan appear to be on ice, at least for now, but the concept is not dead, the Dunedin City Council says.

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Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/cockleshell-design-ice-still-part-plan
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Author: Dan Lake

The results of a survey of Norfolk Island residents has revealed that almost its entire population no longer want to be governed by Australia, and a third would rather be governed by New Zealand.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2019/10/norfolk-islanders-want-to-ditch-australia-for-new-zealand-survey.html
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Author: Scott Palmer

A motorcyclist has died in a terrible Timaru crash on Saturday morning.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/11/motorcyclist-dies-in-terrible-timaru-crash.html
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